Starting September 19, 2023, at 11:00 am EST/17:00 pm CEST, unmigrated Mojang accounts will not be able to sign in to Minecraft.net or the Minecraft Launcher to migrate. We’re doing this to ensure that everyone is playing using accounts with improved security and player safety.
Source: Minecraft.net article

What will happen to unmigrated accounts?

Once the deadline for migration is reached, players will no longer be able to access unmigrated accounts. All unmigrated accounts will be deleted at a future date.
Source: help.minecraft.net

What if you don't have access to the email address associated with your Mojang account, or have any other queries?

The details are unclear. The Minecraft help center link says "Minecraft player support will no longer be able to help with migration-related issues after September 5, 2023." whereas the minecraft.net article states "[...] starting September 19, 2023, Minecraft Support will no longer be able to assist in any MSA migration-related tickets."

What do you get for migrating to a Microsoft account?

Microsoft claims improved account security, and 2FA. You will get a Migrator cape and access to Minecraft for Windows (Bedrock Edition) on the Microsoft account chosen at the time of migration.

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[–] clif 111 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I tried to recover my Mojang account and migrate it three times. Each attempt gets a stock response asking for certain info (receipt, email, username). When I provide this, I get a response from a different support user asking for the same thing I just provided. After three to five back and forths (with the same questions and the same answers) I get busy, frustrated, and leave it for a few weeks.

Once I have time, I start over and the exact same thing repeats again.

I wrote it off as a loss last year with an asterisk of "another reason to fucking hate Microsoft"

[–] themeatbridge 36 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I bought it during beta testing and my account was attached to an old email. Gave up trying to migrate years ago. I'm actually surprised they still haven't deleted it already.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Class action time?

[–] [email protected] 68 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

This is bullshit. What could it possibly matter to them, other than to force people onto their miserable platform. Bastards.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (12 children)

Authentication servers do not run themselves, they need babysitting and patching and upgrading because this is users' passwords and secrets. Microsoft obviously does not want to keep managing this old login system because it's miserable unrewarding janitorial work for a sysadmin or a developer.

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[–] Carighan 7 points 9 months ago

You're welcome to take on the rewrite of our auth-service too, since it seems so trivial in your world. Always fun to drag legacy services around for those 12 really loud and angry users.

[–] beefcat 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They don’t want to hire people to build and maintain a secure login platform when their parent company already has one. This is way more work and liability than most people realize.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 9 months ago (1 children)

For anyone left behind, Minetest is a community-developed alternative.

It's more of a game engine/launcher + highly moddable, so the base game is rather minimalistic, but you can simply install more extensive games. For example, for a very Minecraft-like experience, MineClone2 is your best bet.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 9 months ago (2 children)

So when do I get my refund?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Never. Microsoft says fuck you.

I will say it sounds like a lovely lawsuit waiting to happen though, especially in countries with good consumer protections. I wonder how Canadian law would feel about this? 🤔

[–] Wogi 37 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I paid like, 10 dollars what's gotta be 15 years ago now.

Like if there's a class action lawsuit over this I wouldn't turn down the settlement but I'm not losing any sleep over it

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Some of us paid $39. :(

Edit: I think that's what it cost. It was awhile ago, but it wasn't cheap.

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[–] xkforce 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Microsoft is a trillion dollar company. Unfortunately I doubt any country is going to meaningfully harm them over accounts like this. (I am one of the people that cant migrate because the email I had associated with it is gone and the game was gifted to me so long ago that I wouldn't be able to easily prove it was mine)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You'd be surprised, EU fines and consequences to shitty anti-consumer actions like this are built to hurt. There's a reason why the new iPhone has USB-C, and it's not out of the kindness of their heart.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Apple is building proprietary USB-C cables that the iPhone will extremely prefer. So absolutely not for kindnes

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[–] kmkz_ninja 11 points 9 months ago

I mean, I paid like 8 bucks for the game (or however much it was in the indev version) but it's still shitty and arbitrary.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Does this mean we'll need to pay for the game again if we don't do it in time?

[–] lazycouchpotato 40 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That does appear to be the case at this moment.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Sidenote, I have a feeling that's straight up illegal under contract law. IANAL though.

Edit: Just so ppl have something specific: you bought access to the service. It's probably gonna be limited in the User Agreement as "if this service has to be shut down, you agree to lose your access and you don't sue to get your money back". But this is a backend migration and I'm fairly sure this is not something they had in their original contracts. That's why sniff a broken contract and when they don't refund your money, I sniff broken laws.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If it's not, it should be.

We can write laws and vote then into power, we can fuck up whatever company we want to.

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[–] 2ncs 35 points 9 months ago

I hate that Minecraft is one of the two things I even need a Microsoft Account for.

[–] thantik 35 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And when you DO migrate it to a Microsoft account, and DON'T want them to have your phone number, they'll fake "There's been suspicious activity on your account, we HAVE to have your phone number now!" until you give it up.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago

Can confirm, I found creating a new Microsoft account and doing literally nothing with it for around half an hour is suspicious enough to lock the account and require a phone number.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago

Can't migrate. Will not accept ULA. I now have to rely on pirated version for a game I paid twice. This does not make sense.

[–] obinice 25 points 9 months ago

They're gonna delete my game without giving me a refund? Fuck them.

[–] lazycouchpotato 23 points 9 months ago

I know this comes across as one of those classic phishing emails that claim to require your immediate attention or else your account will be deleted, but unfortunately in this case it's legitimate.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I’ve tried to migrate my account several times in the past. It never works for some reason. Also, I can never seem to untangle the web of deceit known as Microsoft/xbox/Minecraft profiles and family/group settings. About once a year I spend a couple hours trying to sort it out and then give up because it never works. Google can be awful sometimes but at least they figured out “sign in with Google”

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

I did it last week and always got an error trying to create a new microsoft account during the migration process, even in different browsers and after disabling adblockers. Then I just manually created a microsoft account on the microsoft website and in the minecraft migration process chose to use an existing account instead of creating one. That worked for some reason.

[–] dual_sport_dork 16 points 9 months ago

Yeah, no. Microsoft can get bent at 43.625° angle.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In this case I'd get around to it too. I went through it a few months ago and it was not easy. They put a fucking idiotic time limit of 15 minutes on the email, which invariably arrived much later than that. I sat spamming the "send email" button out of frustration.

Morons. It's email.

Eventually one happened to actually arrive in time, but I'd leave some spare time to retry if you care at all.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

They probably want it to fail so that they have fewer users on their servers that already paid. I'm sure their attitude is "pay us again if you want to keep playing".

[–] Nightsoul 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I keep getting those emails even though I've migrated my account and can play Java Minecraft through the Microsoft launcher.

Leads me to think my account isn't migrated but I guess I'll know for sure in a week or so.

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[–] vivavideri 10 points 9 months ago

I thought they'd done this already. They've been pestering for a while right?

[–] Iron_Lynx 7 points 9 months ago

Thanks for reminding me. I've just migrated.

Not sure when the next time will be that I can play Minecraft, but I guess it's nice that I can when I want to at any point into the future.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

RIP all my accounts..

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So you're saying there's still time, cool I'll get around to that Later. ..

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[–] KazuyaDarklight 7 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the FYI, haven't played in years but got it merged to my Xbox account with no issues.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

If I had used Windows 10 edition at any point, would I have already migrated? I haven't played Minecraft in ages, but I certainly don't want to lose access to it.

Edit: Wtf... I get an "Access forbidden" error just going to minecraft.net/login

[–] lazycouchpotato 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If you purchased or redeemed a code for Minecraft for Windows 10 Edition in the past, your Microsoft account is eligible to get Minecraft: Java Edition for free. If you log into the Minecraft Launcher with your Microsoft, it should prompt you to set up a Java Edition username (separate from your Xbox Gamertag).

More information can be found on their help page here.

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