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No way to recover Mojang account email

I registered a Minecraft account before September 2012 and did not migrate to a Mojang account. The original email used seems to be long lost. In the migration portal (https://account.mojang.com/migrate), when clicking on "Forgot your email", the websites directs me:

"If you no longer remember which e-mail you used to create your Minecraft account you need to visit our support center in order to get help with migrating."

The support center link, under the heading "Forgot your registered email address?" instructs me to "Locate your transaction ID", which requires me to look into the email that was used to sign up. The email, of course, is long lost, which is the reason why someone would want to recover the registered email address in the first place. 

I think the solution would be to allow Minecraft account web sign-ins where the user can see their email address, or to allow users to see their account email address within the launcher. 

 

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    I’m the same but I don’t know my old mine craft user name and this is apparently needed to migrate it’s a joke

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    Man i lost my Minecraft account wich had so much stuff on it because of this, i hate this stuff. Microsoft just ruins everything (at least for me).

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    They're trying to force people to buy new accounts if they've owned one for too long, more money in their pockets.

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    Same here. Please Minecraft-Team support a solution for this. Im willing to give you all personal data needed to recover my good old account...

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    For real they send you in a circle. Does anyone know if what they did was legal? Prior to 2012 all you needed to log in was your username and password. I have both of them. Now Microsoft says you need an email to log in. Is that legal? Seems like way to make everyone buy the game again. 

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    I'm trying to migrate my mojang account, which was registered with an email account I no longer have access to.  Having similar issues as the code to migrate is sent to an email that I do not have access to and therefore cannot enter.  They really should have a simple solution to these issues, as some of our accounts are more than a decade old (the email account I used was created when I was in grade 8, as an adult I have created an email account that reflects my age).  I'm thinking maybe my minecraft days are done.