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Thoughts on deleting my Microsoft account, including my Minecraft license?

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  • A [email protected]

    Nothing will ungive the data. Try your best going forward.

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    Take this opportunity to prune your Microsoft data and inject false information. Become a trans man liberal vegan who thinks Trump is great for privacy. Algorithm does need good data after all.

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      Like? I'm out of the loop

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      From what I remember:

      Owner locked all of the devs out of access to the project

      Some racism/homophobia

      And some other things i dont exactly remember rn, but because of this stuff the devs all left and forked into Prism so im not even sure is Poly is still being developed, and if it is id be sceptical on how safe it is to use given who owns it.

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        From what I remember:

        Owner locked all of the devs out of access to the project

        Some racism/homophobia

        And some other things i dont exactly remember rn, but because of this stuff the devs all left and forked into Prism so im not even sure is Poly is still being developed, and if it is id be sceptical on how safe it is to use given who owns it.

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        TIL!

        I downloaded prism recently but not playing anything ATM, no idea on what to play (modded)

        Poly?

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          TIL!

          I downloaded prism recently but not playing anything ATM, no idea on what to play (modded)

          Poly?

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          Oh i was talking about PolyMC, a MultiMC fork. From what i know MultiMC is fine but less polishes than Prism which is a fork of PolyMC.

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            Oh i was talking about PolyMC, a MultiMC fork. From what i know MultiMC is fine but less polishes than Prism which is a fork of PolyMC.

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            I only know about multimc. I still don't know what's the difference between these two since they look identical (logo/name excluded)

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              I still find MultiMC/it's forks much better for the sole reason it has an "instances" folder and every folder has it's own Minecraft version. Idk why but I feel that way is more organized

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              Fjord Launcher allows for offline accounts, it's a fork of Prism, which itself is a fork of PolyMC, which itself is a fork of MultiMC, which itself is a fork of yer mum

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                I use prisim mc. I forget why they forked but it works fine for me.

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                Do you use it offline without a Microsoft account?

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                  Fjord Launcher allows for offline accounts, it's a fork of Prism, which itself is a fork of PolyMC, which itself is a fork of MultiMC, which itself is a fork of yer mum

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                  Didn't know about my mums fork🤨

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                    TIL!

                    I downloaded prism recently but not playing anything ATM, no idea on what to play (modded)

                    Poly?

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                    So I think it goes multi -> poly -> prisim each forked due to some issue with the lead dev but I might be getting poly and prisim mixed up

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                      Do you use it offline without a Microsoft account?

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                      No you still need an account. In fact since the migration it makes you reauth frequently which is annoying. There are forks that let you launch the game offline but it means you cannot play on any online servers and you are technically pirating the game.

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                        So I think it goes multi -> poly -> prisim each forked due to some issue with the lead dev but I might be getting poly and prisim mixed up

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                        It's sad that they didn't keep the curseforge zip import thingy intact, you have to download the server files and stuff and it's annoying... I don't know if others did solve it but I wish there was an official support

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                          I haven't played Minecraft since 2015, but I get the feeling I might again in the new few years as I wanna find new hobbies. I know that game has changed a whole lot but I don't have any official online data on it.

                          I've had this Microsoft account for over a decade and its probably full of personal information that I wanna let go of, I've already exported all my data. I would need to pay $30 for another copy of Minecraft, same price I paid in 2013. I just did a bunch of searching and its not possible to transfer my Minecraft license to another account.

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                          Minetest

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                          • florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zoneF [email protected]

                            Take this opportunity to prune your Microsoft data and inject false information. Become a trans man liberal vegan who thinks Trump is great for privacy. Algorithm does need good data after all.

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                            Unfortunately this is pretty much useless. They collect so much data from so many people that they will simply not use your data for training.

                            They will continue to sell it though.

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                              Luanti is quite good.

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                              Seconding vintage story. I can never play minecraft again, VS is simultaneously more stressful AND more cozy. Just got a big update recently, too.

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                                I haven't played Minecraft since 2015, but I get the feeling I might again in the new few years as I wanna find new hobbies. I know that game has changed a whole lot but I don't have any official online data on it.

                                I've had this Microsoft account for over a decade and its probably full of personal information that I wanna let go of, I've already exported all my data. I would need to pay $30 for another copy of Minecraft, same price I paid in 2013. I just did a bunch of searching and its not possible to transfer my Minecraft license to another account.

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                                I never made a MS account, so I no longer own Minecraft since they stopped accepting Mojang accounts. Sometimes I wish I had just bit the bullet and made one so I can still own Minecraft—I know I can pirate it, but it's less convenient, and also I don't know how well pirated Minecraft works with multiplayer. In any case I've just not played Minecraft in a long time, and not since Minecraft stopped accepting Mojang logins.

                                I am surprised you can't transfer your licence to another account though. Since when they were making the switch to Microsoft accounts, they let you just transfer your licence from Mojang onto any old MS account.

                                Ultimately it's up to you. I guess in your shoes I would be more erred towards deleting just because of all that personal information sitting around. Of course you can't guarantee MS will "forget" it, but storage costs money, and they likely don't want to keep around all your old data when most of it is not very profitable data to have. In my case, in hindsight, I'm now erring on the side of wishing I had just made an account, since there'd be no other data tied to that account and I wouldn't have used it for anything other than Minecraft.

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                                • florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zoneF [email protected]

                                  Take this opportunity to prune your Microsoft data and inject false information. Become a trans man liberal vegan who thinks Trump is great for privacy. Algorithm does need good data after all.

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                                  Don't waste your time with that. Do something useful.

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                                    I haven't played Minecraft since 2015, but I get the feeling I might again in the new few years as I wanna find new hobbies. I know that game has changed a whole lot but I don't have any official online data on it.

                                    I've had this Microsoft account for over a decade and its probably full of personal information that I wanna let go of, I've already exported all my data. I would need to pay $30 for another copy of Minecraft, same price I paid in 2013. I just did a bunch of searching and its not possible to transfer my Minecraft license to another account.

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                                    If you're only interested in singleplayer or can convince your friends to move: There's a free, open source alternative called Luanti.

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                                      I never made a MS account, so I no longer own Minecraft since they stopped accepting Mojang accounts. Sometimes I wish I had just bit the bullet and made one so I can still own Minecraft—I know I can pirate it, but it's less convenient, and also I don't know how well pirated Minecraft works with multiplayer. In any case I've just not played Minecraft in a long time, and not since Minecraft stopped accepting Mojang logins.

                                      I am surprised you can't transfer your licence to another account though. Since when they were making the switch to Microsoft accounts, they let you just transfer your licence from Mojang onto any old MS account.

                                      Ultimately it's up to you. I guess in your shoes I would be more erred towards deleting just because of all that personal information sitting around. Of course you can't guarantee MS will "forget" it, but storage costs money, and they likely don't want to keep around all your old data when most of it is not very profitable data to have. In my case, in hindsight, I'm now erring on the side of wishing I had just made an account, since there'd be no other data tied to that account and I wouldn't have used it for anything other than Minecraft.

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                                      I never made a MS account, so I no longer own Minecraft since they stopped accepting Mojang accounts.

                                      My sibling in christ: you never owned Minecraft, then.

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                                        It's sad that they didn't keep the curseforge zip import thingy intact, you have to download the server files and stuff and it's annoying... I don't know if others did solve it but I wish there was an official support

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                                        i think curseforge blocked them. modrinth is preferable anyway, and you can download stuff completely in-launcher.

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                                          I only know about multimc. I still don't know what's the difference between these two since they look identical (logo/name excluded)

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                                          polymc devs pissed off the multimc guy and were blocked so they forked, then polymc devs started being super homophobic so prism forked them.

                                          prism is the most active one.

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