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To buy no longer means anything :( (youtu.be)

submitted 8 months ago by matmarspace@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I’ve just watched the video. I find it pretty outrageous. The word about it should spread.

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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I had an old Alpha account. I missed the migration window out of a mix of laziness and not really checking my email.

Surely this cannot be legal and all this shit about forced arbitration cannot hold up in a British court?

[–] Hasherm0n@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

I never even received an email. I haven't touched Minecraft in years, probably never would have again, but my daughter is getting into it and I thought it would be fun to play with her. I found out about the migration when trying to troubleshoot why I couldn't log in.

I tried to contact support and they told me that they had "widely communicated the migration through email and social media" and that because I had missed the migration window, I would simply have to buy a new copy. I double and triple checked. No emails regarding the migration and I'm not on social media.

[–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

It shouldn't be, but fighting Microsoft in court would be hellish, and not even a guaranteed win given how much undue influence corporations have over the justice system and politicians.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The "purchase" agreement probably says that they can terminate the license for any reason at any time. If you bought the game years ago I suspect they are actually fine to revoke access. See for example EA and other shit game companies that have taken down games when they take the online DRM servers offline.

[–] CrabLangEnjoyer@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Yeah fun fact I actually looked this up a few days ago in the wayback machine because I own a beta account. Back then it was just Notch selling the game and the "agreement" if you can call it that on the site basically just said "you own the game forever, no drm".

I'm not a lawyer or anything but I suspect that unless they somehow tricked users of old mojang account to agree to Microsoft TOS after the purchase of Mojang what Microsoft did may be very legally questionable. But the main issue is who is gonna sue them over 20 bucks. They know they can get away with it