It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play are over

Re:It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play ar... by hedora on Thursday September 08, 2022 @11:56PM (#32775129)

I really just want a f---ing password protected "play offline" button.

I've been trying to keep the kids off the internet, but Minecraft somehow created some bulls--t backdoor social media account for my kindergartner without prompting (let alone asking for consent before making it public!). On top of that, microsoft can trivially tie it to my github and linkedin.

Seriously, WTF were they thinking?!?

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Re:It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play ar... by nottorp on Friday September 09, 2022 @05:43AM (#32777286)

> Minecraft somehow created

** Microsoft ** somehow created.

No one created any account besides the one required to download Minecraft before the acquisition.

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Re:It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play ar... by hedora on Friday September 09, 2022 @01:23PM (#32782208)

Not that it really matters at this point, but I wonder if Minecraft silently created public-by-default social media profiles before the acquisition.

Those are different disaster than tying the profiles to Microsoft accounts.

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Re:It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play ar... by nottorp on Friday September 09, 2022 @02:54PM (#32783375)

I've been playing Minecraft for quite a while. Not from the beginning, but from before Notch even started considering selling. If the old Mojang had created anything but a Mojang account, it would have been news and it wasn't.

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