I tried to recover my Mojang account and migrate it three times. Each attempt gets a stock response asking for certain info (receipt, email, username). When I provide this, I get a response from a different support user asking for the same thing I just provided. After three to five back and forths (with the same questions and the same answers) I get busy, frustrated, and leave it for a few weeks.

Once I have time, I start over and the exact same thing repeats again.

I wrote it off as a loss last year with an asterisk of "another reason to fucking hate Microsoft"

This is bullshit. What could it possibly matter to them, other than to force people onto their miserable platform. Bastards.

For anyone left behind, Minetest is a community-developed alternative.

It's more of a game engine/launcher + highly moddable, so the base game is rather minimalistic, but you can simply install more extensive games. For example, for a very Minecraft-like experience, MineClone2 is your best bet.

So when do I get my refund?

Does this mean we'll need to pay for the game again if we don't do it in time?

I hate that Minecraft is one of the two things I even need a Microsoft Account for.

And when you DO migrate it to a Microsoft account, and DON'T want them to have your phone number, they'll fake "There's been suspicious activity on your account, we HAVE to have your phone number now!" until you give it up.

Can't migrate. Will not accept ULA. I now have to rely on pirated version for a game I paid twice. This does not make sense.

They're gonna delete my game without giving me a refund? Fuck them.

I know this comes across as one of those classic phishing emails that claim to require your immediate attention or else your account will be deleted, but unfortunately in this case it's legitimate.

I’ve tried to migrate my account several times in the past. It never works for some reason. Also, I can never seem to untangle the web of deceit known as Microsoft/xbox/Minecraft profiles and family/group settings. About once a year I spend a couple hours trying to sort it out and then give up because it never works. Google can be awful sometimes but at least they figured out “sign in with Google”

Yeah, no. Microsoft can get bent at 43.625° angle.

In this case I'd get around to it too. I went through it a few months ago and it was not easy. They put a fucking idiotic time limit of 15 minutes on the email, which invariably arrived much later than that. I sat spamming the "send email" button out of frustration.

Morons. It's email.

Eventually one happened to actually arrive in time, but I'd leave some spare time to retry if you care at all.

I thought they'd done this already. They've been pestering for a while right?

I keep getting those emails even though I've migrated my account and can play Java Minecraft through the Microsoft launcher.

Leads me to think my account isn't migrated but I guess I'll know for sure in a week or so.

RIP all my accounts..

So you're saying there's still time, cool I'll get around to that Later. ..

Thanks for reminding me. I've just migrated.

Not sure when the next time will be that I can play Minecraft, but I guess it's nice that I can when I want to at any point into the future.

Thanks for the FYI, haven't played in years but got it merged to my Xbox account with no issues.

If I had used Windows 10 edition at any point, would I have already migrated? I haven't played Minecraft in ages, but I certainly don't want to lose access to it.

Edit: Wtf... I get an "Access forbidden" error just going to minecraft.net/login