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by itronitron 1586 days ago
I can't think of anything more off-putting when purchasing a game than having to create another account.

I have yet to migrate any of our family's 6+ Mojang accounts to Microsoft and I'm not sure that I will. Migrating to a Microsoft account also coincidentally creates an XBox Live account which is a hassle I don't need. If Minecraft needs to die in order to make way for the next creative, social, non-FPS game then I can accept that.

And I'm not convinced that Microsoft's forced migration from Mojang to MS accounts is legal.

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I stopped playing Rocket League for several reasons; discontinuation of a native Linux version, and then forcing you to register an Epic account (which I refused to do).
It probably is legal because of a "we can change the terms and conditions at any time" clause, but just in case I'm not going to migrate my account until they really shut down Mojang accounts.

It seems weird to me that they give people capes as a "reward" for migrating, as if that's the only way they can legally get people to move over.