[bigyabai]

When you "buy" anything digital, you're not ever owning it.

It's unfortunate, and Microsoft is no saint, but Mojang's depreciation was inevitable.

[inigyou]

Notch's terms of sale were that you get access to every version of Minecraft forever.

[bigyabai]

Notch has said a lot of things that are rather evidently untrue in reality.

[Zambyte]

The solution is consumer rights laws, not victim blaming.

[bigyabai]

Minecraft has an authoritative nameserver. Even regulation wouldn't decouple it from the owner.

[Zambyte]

I can't even download and play the game that I purchased in single player mode. The name server doesn't matter for that.