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I was forced to create multiple as part of the mojang migration - truly a nightmarish experience to use their AuthN, haven’t seen something quite as bad since

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Maybe you were "tricked into", but probably not forced. We are free to refuse, at cost, but free.

The cost is that you can never play Minecraft again

It might be small cost in retrospect.

Nah I sunk many thousands of hours into these accounts; definitely not a small cost. Sure I could get a new account and pay twice for the game I already purchased multiple times - that would’ve ground my gears too

I think the new account would have to be a Microsoft account also, so you wouldn't have even gained anything by not migrating.

Some servers allow joining without a Microsoft account even these days, but probably can't play on any of the servers you regularly play on, if you don't have a Microsoft account.

Including old pre-enshittified versions.

Never play online

That's half the game.

They used dark patterns to trick me into signing up. I do not know how anyone can trust them, at all, ever.

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