[Alphaeus]

The Mojang accounts weren't great for security. No 2FA or anything (just security questions), and if you lost your account / it was stolen, you were pretty stuffed. The only way to recover it was to present the transaction ID of your purchase of the game to support, which most people don't have and you were never told to keep. I saw lots of people get permanently locked out of their accounts.

I guess it also doesn't make sense for them to maintain a parallel login system when the Microsoft one gets (presumably) millions of dollars of investment every year. Though Microsoft accounts are more complicated to use, with configuration being split across Microsoft, Xbox, and Mojang/Minecraft itself. And it seems they like locking people out for opaque reasons.

[simion314]

>The Mojang accounts weren't great for security. No 2FA or anything (just security questions), and if you lost your account / it was stolen, you were pretty stuffed. The only way to recover it was to present the transaction ID of your purchase of the game to support, which most people don't have and you were never told to keep. I saw lots of people get permanently locked out of their accounts.

It was in fact super easy to just search my email Inbox for emails from Mojand and find the proof or purchase.

With MS I have 3 fucking accounts and not by choice, they bought Skype and Mojand and forced me into their super shitty system, I spent 30 minutes 1 year ago to migrate the Minecrtaft accoutn and more then 30 minutes a few weeks back to login back into Minecraft because I needed to detective my way to figureout what Microsoft account they connected to my Mojang purchase.

I hope in a few years someone leaks what greedy motives were behind this forced migrations, probably to sell more shit.

[LightHugger]

The mojang accounts were superior in every way in terms of security. Hahha, microsoft is a huge attack surface. And with microsoft, you also need to secure your account against microsoft itself, which isn't easy, they will randomly extort previously unknown personal information like phone numbers to access your account. If you only have 1 number, and its linked to a different account, you just lost your account.

I don't understand why people think a microsoft account could ever possibly be more secure.