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submitted 1 year ago by to c/wholesomegreentext@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I kinda doubt it. That is such an insignificant amount of money to Microsoft, I doubt they'd do it for that reason. It probably has something to do with conforming to regulations or something random.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    What regulations say you have to basically steal someone's access to a game they paid for?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    They didn't steal anything. They gave you 3 years to upgrade for free.

    If you didn't do it in time then that is on you. They send reminders in every way they could.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    "upgrade"

    And they are taking it away. If they didn't have the EULA which I believe they had to change to make it possible (or they changed it for another reason) it would be theft.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    You know how many people change their email addresses or stop using them in a few years time?

    This is stealing, people paid for a product and it was removed from their access. I don't know how much clearer that can be.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    There are many regulations in place that have to do with privacy, terms of service etc. When you made a Mojang account you never agreed to Microsoft's terms of service. And I wouldn't be surprised if there were other issues as well related to just merging accounts from different companies, it's not that simple.

    If I remember correctly I think Luke and Linus (from LTT) talked about how they had a lot of issues with migrating forum subscribers to Floatplane and how it wasn't really possible to do it without direct user consent or something. I don't really remember the details, it was many years ago.

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