• bleistift2@sopuli.xyz
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    17 days ago

    I marvel at the proficiency with which Microsoft tears down every piece of software it touches nowadays.

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      17 days ago

      I’ll get downvoted for this, but I think they take good care of github and Minecraft. As for the rest though… not so good.

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        17 days ago

        If with “good care” you mean “the core functionality is up and running most times”, yes

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        17 days ago

        I haven’t played Minecraft for a while, but I was under the impression that Microsoft was progressively turning the Bedrock version into a microtransaction hellscape. If I’d have to reluctantly commend Microsoft for anything, I’d rather go for Visual Studio Code.

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          16 days ago

          Oh, yeah bedrock sucks. Java edition is still great though. And yes, VSCode is good as well.

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          The bedrock version is bad, but they have recently given everyone that owned one version of the game the other version for free and now sell both versions of the game for the price of one

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        16 days ago

        … Didn’t they revoke the Minecraft licenses people purchased because they didn’t manage to migrate their Mojang accounts to Microsoft accounts in a short amount of time?

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          16 days ago

          Lost access to my OG account because I didn’t find out about this until a month after it was too late.

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          16 days ago

          People were given three years to migrate, I wouldn’t quite call that short

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            16 days ago

            People have absolutely taken a multi-year break from Minecraft before.

            Really though, why is there a time limit at all? Google still allows you to convert old Youtube accounts to Google accounts, why can’t Microsoft do the same?

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          16 days ago

          On top of that, even if you did manage to migrate your account, the M$ Minecraft accounts get deleted without warning after some time (2 years?) of inactivity. Guess how I found that out.

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            16 days ago

            The MS or MC account?
            Because my MC account is very dead, while my MS is semi active.

            Edit: (Dead meaning not deactivated)

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          16 days ago

          As a Minecraft player, as long as they leave java edition alone I’m fine with it.

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        15 days ago

        They deliberately removed code search for not logged in users almost immediately. Just recently they removed cloning without an account, so now updating my computer requires signing in to github.

        They have been awful stewards.