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A case study in bad design

How could you possibly make it this difficult to sign in to a game meant for children?  Thanks for taking a nice little children's game and just absolutely ruining it in the process of migrating it to your god-forsaken Microsoft accounts.

You people really need to rip your collective heads out of your haunches and make it so that AT LEAST someone with a degree in computer science and a few decades of experience in online gaming can figure out how to login to Minecraft, let alone a 10-year-old.

That said, once have managed to get the jar file extracted from you wildly stupid packaging and run with java -jar, what magical incantation of my username, account profile name, and whatever other stupid names you have assigned to my account is required to actually get the game to load?

While I am at it, thank you oh so very little for managing to suck ALL of the fun out of what was supposed to be a Minecraft party.  You have no idea how much I loathe each and every one of you involved in this IDIOTICALLY BAD transition right now.

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    Thank you for saying that...

    I mean, I get the idea of allowing email logins, which was supposed to let people change usernames, but then there's this Microsoft account thing which is, for all that I can figure out, exactly the same.

    We already have UUIDs to identify players. We don't need the new "solution"; if it's badly implemented or hard to use... that's not actually the system's fault.

    There's a lot of personal information needed to get a Microsoft account, which I'm not happy about. At the first chance I'm planning on deleting mine (I mean, it has my real-life name, not just a username!) once I don't need it. Having to keep it around just to play Minecraft will be really disappointing for me.

    On that note, if you found out how to launch the new launcher with Java -jar I'd LOVE to know. I'm okay with random Java blobs, but not platform-specific EXEs. I thought that was the point of using Java. (and it's still called the Java edition)

    (Yes, don't spoil the argument with the libraries that are platform-specific that are used by the game like LWJGL. I'm aware of them, but those are external and can be managed)

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    i agree but i also disagree. I agree with having lots of personal information on that account and after all, its just a game mostly children play (no offense) and there isnt any actual reason for migrating. I kinda disagree because with MS accounts we would be able to have friends tabs in the launcher and we would have, the most important feature of all, C A P E S!!!

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    Testing launcher on an human and acting on findings would likely make it better.

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    100% the most annoying freaking process in the world. I just decided not to play. Maybe I’ll figure it out in a few months.

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    I will acknowledge this is a first world problem. And I will say that I could not agree more with the original poster. Microsoft. Seriously. I just spent over three hours trying to figure out *which configuration* of account sign-ins, email verifications, PINs, passwords, and purchase approvals through Microsoft, Gmail, MSN, Minecraft, Mojang, and I can't now remember what other accounts would make it possible just for my 13 year old to play Minecraft. Loathe is the correct word. You have known now for some time (two years, at least) how bad your process is, and yet you continue to just sit back and expect parents to submit themselves to your ridiculous version of Minecraft sign-up/migration Wipeout. How many techs, coders, managers, "customer experience specialists", and others are you paying to just watch this unfold, over and over, without doing a thing to fix it? I'm going to go throw up now.