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What? No it's not hard to do, all they had to do was port the info into a DB and sit on it...they could have used the same DB that they use for the accounts now. Then the second someone returns it kicks off the same process that happened when this whole migration thing began long time ago. I've handled plenty of account migrations throughout my time and they're not rocket science.
...and all those account migration systems are kept running in perpetuity just in case someone with an account last used in June 2009 happens to try logging in sometime in 2030? That feels like a lot of legacy systems to maintain for very little benefit.
You move the account...and reset the password. People want access they go through proving they have access to the email. You all are acting like it's hard to move info from one DB to another.
They did it for greed, stop defending M$
That is not how databases work.
It would cause all kinds of issues. And then they would get tons of criticism by people like you that it doesn't work perfectly.
Windows has enough backwards compatibility they have to work around. Lets not add games to it as well.
No, 3 years of free upgrades is more than enough.
Lol that's exactly how DBs work. The hell do you think they keep account info? On randys note pad?
People paid for the game. Period. This is like someone buying a physical copy and because they didn't go and get the new copy the old one stops working.
Some simps for Microsoft here apparently.