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TL;DW?
Microsoft buys Minecraft; forces users to migrate to Microsoft accounts; after ~3 years all non-migrated accounts are deleted. In contrast, if you have a pre-Google youtube account, you can still migrate that 17 year old account.
Mojang Minecraft accounts were paid for, but Microsoft deleted them if they didn't migrate after those three years. Many people who had "bought" the game weren't able to access multiplayer any more after serving in the military, getting out of prison, etc.
He argues that buying a videogame doesn't mean you actually own; however, in my view since you can still play offline, you can.
Are there like hobby Minecraft servers not related to Microsoft? I'm thinking like the Library map and such.
*I feel I must add that I've never played Minecraft.
Surely impossible for Microsoft to keep a few gigabytes (at best) of old account data in a database indefinitely until migrated.
Yeah, what do people expect? It's not like they own massive, self-sufficient data centers on several continents.