Mojang is deleting your Minecraft accounts. Here’s why.

Mojang just killed a million dollars worth of Minecraft accounts and they’re coming for you next maybe this is an insane situation that’s come up over the last two months involving tens of millions of players so if you’re as concerned as I am stay for a bit and let

Me explain oh and obviously subscribe for more bangers so first off we’re taking it back to March when Mojang went to war with the rarest usernames in the game I won’t go into too much detail but there’s a very very small percentage of the Minecraft population with special valuable usernames that normally aren’t

Allowed for example they could be a really short one-letter names or names with invalid characters like the dollar sign or duplicate accounts where two or more players have the same name for years now mojing has been at war with the Minecraft community over these names

It all started on March 2nd of 2020 when out of nowhere mojing just started clearing these invalid names from the top of the alphabet until just seven names later it was already over until two months later after her username glitch found by some friends of mine was

Leaked Mojang it not only undid all the damage but killed all 24 usernames with spaces along with an account with exclamation marks and the famous dollar sign account then mojing shifted their aim to dupes killing 50 of them in December 2020 and when another glitch was found for these names 13 more and

Then over the course of the last year or so mojing has purged these accounts again and again a few dupe accounts here a few invalids there until the numbers were dangerously low and on March 23rd they stopped trying to be subtle Mojang killed every single one but you might

Have a question how did we even find these insane accounts I mean it’s not like you see them around every day the history behind these accounts is decades long with thousands of players involved researching everything from the API to cyber security and more but if you want to get into researching and tinkering

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Now back to the content because it’s time for a quick history lesson we’ll start with the duplicates because this is truly tragic even through all the purges we’ve had recently and everything that’s been lost in the past we still had a couple hundred of these sitting around a few of which were active

Players and those are just the ones we know about but you know having fun is a crime and since Mojang deleting these accounts for no reason would literally be a crime or at least so we thought more about that later they did the next best thing which is getting rid of

Anything unique or interesting about them because of a petty Grudge or something we don’t even know these dupes alone would have been worth a fortune seriously there were at least 224 of them and they’ve been sold in the past for at least four thousand a piece which

Comes out to 896 000 minimum factor in the ones we haven’t found near into the millions but more important than their value was just how cool they were I mean seriously imagine bumping into an account like are now in game such short clean names are already hard to come by

But two of them with the same name that’s practically unheard of and Mojang took that from us and then when they had picked off every last duplicate they moved on to the invalids which hurt even more if you’ve watched my channel before you know I love invalid accounts I’ve

Made video after video after video explaining what they are documenting their history talking about the glitches that created them everything I mean these are some of the oldest accounts in the game there are screenshots from as far back as 2009 showing these things off and without a second thought Mojang

Destroyed them all it was bad enough they killed the spaces the dollar sign and that awesomest count a while back but this was just heartbreaking dots dashes smiley faces they were all gone all dead just because somebody felt like it but why well that’s what we aren’t

Really sure about a long time ago invalids and duplicates of were involved in a few glitches and exploits in multiplayer but it’s been years and those problems have all been fixed the community has adapted to them gotten used to them and begun to support them on most servers this whole thing is

Completely pointless but unfortunately it looks like this isn’t the end of Mojang’s purges and next time it’s not just cool usernames getting hit it’s the entire Minecraft Community but why well it all has something to do with a little thing we call migration you’ve probably heard that word about a thousand times

In the last few years if you’ve been actively playing Minecraft but if you were pulling a Patrick Star and living under a rock I’ll explain very quickly Microsoft bought Minecraft a long time ago but they haven’t done a lot of Microsoft related stuff until 2020 where they decided that every Minecraft player

Would be required to link their accounts to Microsoft if they wanted to keep playing probably for data collection or something else they can make money off of who knows but even after the initial deadline and unmigrated accounts lost access to the game you could always just migrate whenever you wanted to get back

In but very soon that’s going to change September 19th 2023 that will be the end of the line for millions of Minecraft players because if you do not migrate by that date you are not just losing access for a bit your account will be deleted no Second Chances no yelling at support

To play again that’s it but you might have a question and a very valid one is this even legal after all those players paid for the game and it’s now being taken away from them and the answer to your question is no actually I don’t

Think it is I’m no lawyer by any means and please if somebody more experienced than me could comment on this that would be greatly appreciated but essentially even though you don’t physically own Minecraft only a license to play it the only way that it could be legal to take

That license away is if you break the Mojang terms of service now migration isn’t included in the terms of service so you might think you’re safe and that this is fully illegal but Mojang put a catch-all right here at the bottom which basically says we do what we want deal

With a nerd surprisingly these types of things are usually legally enforceable which is why a lot of the time if you ever take a look at the terms of service for any game or website you use they’ll say something like uh we’re not responsible for anything and you can’t

Sue us that actually works a lot of the time shockingly but for Mojang I don’t think it will because they made one huge mistake they didn’t always have that in the terms of service until October of 2015 there was no section about being able to delete your account there wasn’t

Anything about not allowing lawsuits either so if I’m right here that means that any of you that registered before October of 2015 which is still over 10 million people never agreed to this new TOs probably didn’t know what existed and thus can’t legally have your accounts taken away that’s not to say

Mojing won’t do it they definitely will but I’d be shocked if they didn’t end up in a class action lawsuit or something similar as a result until we know for sure though migrating your account is the best course of action so let me give

You you a little how to you can start by going to minecraft.net where you log into your account if you have a mojing account which most of you do use your email and your password if you have a Legacy account from back in the good old days use your username instead of your

Email once you’re logged in you’ll see this big pop-up saying it’s time to move and once you click that little button it’s all pretty straightforward you’ll get a code in your email for verification then you will log into a Microsoft account or make one if you

Don’t have one already set up your Xbox profile and then once you click complete you’re all done it’s not a really complicated process it’s just unnecessary and annoying after all this is Microsoft we’re dealing with here what did you expect but uh that’s it for the video thank you for watching thank

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