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Minecraft players outraged as Microsoft deletes accounts that weren't transitioned
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this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2024
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Couldn't they have closed the migration but sent out redemption codes to people's emails for those who hadn't migrated?
I think that's not a good idea for the same reason that password reset emails expire within minutes.
On another platform, they might have transferred the accounts anyway and force password resets, but that's likely not an option since they're MS accounts.
They could create a MS account for you based on your email, and have it locked such that you need to reset through their system. Seems reasonable to me.
But the alternative is just closing it and now there being no option at all.
The migration has been going on for multiple years (I believe more than 5). Anyone who wanted to keep their account would've done so.
So why not send a code to them before closing it for good so they have an option to redeem versus none at all.
Because those people could then sell those codes and reap profit that belongs to poor, poor, Microsoft
They got sent a link before closing for good. That was their option to redeem. If they didn't in all that time, it's probably because they don't want to keep their account.
Keeping legacy systems costs money, they have no reason to keep those codes valid for 30 years just in case someone decided they wanted to keep their account after 30 years.
They gave users more than enough time to migrate. 3 years is a lot of time. In most Democratic countries elections come up every 4 years, it's almost a full election cycle.
That's an assumption that leads to corporate bullshit like this.
Or... and maybe we think about this for a second. I wanted to buy a game. Not an account to Microsoft. Migrating to another service wasn't in the terms I agreed to.. especially to Microsoft.
Who said 30 years. It's just a code sent to email with expiration. And when digital codes are sold what is this supposed legacy system. Did Microsoft suddenly stop selling digital codes?
I thought you meant they send a code that never expires so you can recover your old account. What you are proposing is give everyone who didn't migrate a code to redeem Minecraft?
That is even less viable. That's basically giving everyone that didn't migrate a full refund (+ extra because now Minecraft is cheaper so you can sell it for more). Which would also lead to a potential customer lost because they bought the "second hand" key.
Why would Microsoft do that. They'd be better off just paypaling every non-migrated account 20€.