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Legacy Java Edition accounts should have usernames wiped after migration

Legacy Minecraft accounts have been out of date for over 8 years. And for the majority of that time period, players have had the opportunity to migrate their accounts, but chose not to (and I can't think of any good reason of why they chose not to).

Many accounts which have been inactive for as long as a decade have had usernames that other players have wanted, but couldn't take because they have already been claimed.

I am aware that account migration is currently closed until the Microsoft migration. However, a month or so after the Microsoft migration, I believe that Legacy accounts should have their usernames wiped if they still choose to not migrate. Not years after the migration--a month, or maybe two if I'm being generous. They've had over 8 years to migrate and they chose not to, I don't see a valid reason to give them even more time.

In February of 2015, something similar happened, where trial accounts were wiped so people could take their usernames. Six years later, we should do this again.

To be clear, I do not believe that these accounts should be deleted. People paid for them, after all. However, since they remain untouched, I believe that they should have their usernames wiped. It's not fair to active players that they can't claim a username they want because someone who hasn't logged in for a decade has their desired name.

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    Disagree.

    >>players have had the opportunity to migrate their accounts, but chose not to

    You probably do not know this is false.  Many weren't playing when the migration occurred a couple years ago.   They didn't know.    Migration has been blocked for several months and something else you don't know is that many legacy player are to be deprived of their accounts unfairly because Microsoft is taking the position if you didn't save Mojang's original email, well tough.  You have to pay $40 AUS if you want continue playing a game you paid for already.

     Although, I guess once paid customers are shown the door, freeing up the names might as well happen.

     

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    i have a firewall setup to block when the migration happeneds, ill most likely leave it on after 1.18

    honestly the only reason to the forced migration is "Security" instead of mojang tthat is owned by Microsoft to build 2FA instead they just forced millions of people to sue a Microsoft account.

    2FA is secure unless the company itself gets breached, ironically more Microsoft accounts means more data and control for the company

    bing with search history, cookies and trackers, tracking under age kids without trying to. because your forcing a good number of people to switch or create accounts like the > zero-day exploits were discovered in on-premises Microsoft Exchange Servers, giving attackers full access to user emails and passwords on affected servers in January

    this was all to protect accounts from getting hacked but in return more data is stored on Microsoft end which can be used

    ``and I can't think of any good reason of why they chose not to).``

    basically security reasons why i can think of also 2FA is optional and not forced.



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    I have something too. I think I used to have the name Juiceman when I first started playing but I lost my account ( I think ) when my parents got divorced and changed there emails. So I think if a player did not migrate without a Microsoft account I think the name should be given to the public because if the player did not migrate the account is no longer available. But this also leaves another question what will we do with the players account. If the player has not logged on for a certain amount of time like a decade or something or like 5 years I think they should send out an email saying "Please either we will give you a refund or something or yeah." So in theory I agree.

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    1 because I don't have access to an old netscape email which is now dead so I can't migrate it

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    welp i forgot my username of legacy account so i cant migrate it anymore but know the registered email

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    While in theory this is a not bad idea, a lot of people who havent migrated -like myself- did so because we were unable to migrate, and may still be so.

    imo microsoft should start using the uuids instead of making usernames unique. the framework is there after all.

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    To be honest I would like one last chance to reclaim my old username before it gets released to everyone but if I am at least notified of this change then I would be okay with it. 

    I am still pretty unhappy that my account got yeeted out from underneath me because my account was attached to an old email that I don't use anymore so I failed to get notified of the removal of migration for accounts.