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Yeah Baldur's gate 3 and hell divers are both doing terribly

Minecraft is pretty unique, or was until its imitators appeared and is the most popular game (or is it second to Tetris?)

I think release then fix became common as soon as internet distribution became practical

Back when everything was on physical media the releases were more polished

I hear about people getting Minecraft on game pass. Those people don't play Minecraft like I play Minecraft

If they die, other companies will buy that IP

In comparison I eat almost only beef and eggs. Occasionally chicken and lamb. That had all my blood work in order, though it took 2 years to go from obese to the top of normal the blood work got good in only a couple of weeks

Official stuff, sure, but not system generated email from giant companies like Microsoft

I'm amazed at how much better the official launcher is on Linux than on windows.

Windows:

• complains if your logged in account doesn't match your game account
• Requires you to log out of one account to log into another in a not very clear or user friendly way

Linux

• No logged in account to complain about
• Lists all your accounts and lets you swap by clicking on the one you want in the accounts list

So take MS to small claims court. Get an order for them to restore your account and user name per the licence you presumably still have a copy of

I have gotten more free accounts on Minecraft than any other game. I bought it twice on Java (not counting copies I bought for family) and once on bedrock, so when they moved accounts to Microsoft and gave every Java account a bedrock account and every bedrock account a Java account, so I now have three on each version. A second (or third) account is useful for rescuing your main account in some circumstances

They need more than email verification. Some privacy minded people signed up with throwaway email, but probably have other proof of ownership

A search in Gmail (which that used) finds stuff on spam. Also Gmail won't put a Microsoft company's mail in spam

The book was Radicalized - a set of short stories, actually from 5 years ago :/

The specific story in the collection was "Unauthorised bread"