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by Retr0id 689 days ago
Minecraft, PC. 33 million copies sold.

Game purchases were originally linked to a Mojang account, and even single-player mode required you to log in at least once before you could play. Fair enough.

The servers are still up, but they forced people to migrate from Mojang accounts to Microsoft accounts. There was a reasonable grace period, but I didn't want a Microsoft account, so now I can't legally play the game anymore.

https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/19615552270221

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>but I didn't want a Microsoft account, so now I can't legally play the game anymore.

I mean, that's a reasonable choice you made. Unfortunate, but 2.5b dollar aquisitions by a tech conglomerate will do that.

Fortunately, that situation is exceedingly rare.