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Minecraft players outraged as Microsoft deletes accounts that weren't transitioned
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I am against DRM just like everyone else but trust me they tried. They emailed me constantly telling me to move the account. There has to be some personal responsibility right?
I guess it's too much to ask the richest company on the planet to keep a list of a few accounts indefinitely. I'm sure that database is a whole gigabyte sized and maintaining it requires a whole person to check in on it once in a while. Obviously they can only afford that level of effort for a year or two. And we're only taking about removing access from millions of people to something they paid good money for, and also doing it because. Yeah, I'm with you on this one, totally not their fault.
The richest company on the planet is Walmart.
I think that depends on your metric.
Market cap, revenue, profit, assets? They will all have a different leaderboard.
False. It's Microsoft.
"Richest" isn't really a term you can compare without further clarification.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_revenue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_corporations_by_market_capitalization
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.
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.
That's an assumption that leads to corporate bullshit like this.
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€.
Responsible for what? Getting something I paid for stolen?