Comments locked as users on /r/PiratedGames argue over whether Minecraft's account migration constitutes theft

Original post:

Microsoft deleted my Minecraft account. This is why I pirate

A surfer of the high seas makes a post about his Minecraft account getting locked because they didn't migrate their Mojang account to a Microsoft account.

Mods say:

Comments locked because it's just a battle of the "this was an easy thing to do and you had plenty of warning" crowd VS "you should be able to keep the game no matter what if you paid for it" crowd.

Both have merits, and yet everyone is now slinging insults and getting personal. Just ridiculous.

some threads:

-Strawman:

The way they rolled out this change out was super fair, actually. I think they gave people well over a year to migrate their accounts

They deny access to a game you have bought. That is never fair no matter how many strawmen you throw at it.

-Whiny idiot:

It's literally a simple web server, dirt cheap especially for a company like Microsoft. They just stopped giving a frick and realized legally they could get away with screwing over the millions of unmigrated players.

You could not be more wrong... They gave you AMPLE time to migrate your account... It just makes you a whiny idiot.

-Dumbshit:

They gave you a lot of time to migrate. they warned people multiple times that it would happen both in email and inside the launcher. if it took this long for you to realize this was happening, you deserve to pay the $30 again.

What if someone had quit the game and decided to come back to the game? Dumbshit argument

Don't ignore emails/the hundreds of reminders that were all over the internet?

-Pirating:

others already commented on whether or not ur reason is a good one but you really dont need to justify yourself. just pirate if you want to, theres not much more to it

-Peepeeriding:

The company peepeeriding here's very crazy. Sucks for you man! Maybe try sending them an email

Peepeeriding a company that gives you spyware for free on windows 11 insane.

Its not peepeeriding microsoft... Despite microsoft is a shit, in this case OP just cant complain, they warned a lot of times for ~2 years in diferent ways, and he realized like 1 year late. Dont blame microsoft for being lazy for years... Does OP want to pirate games? Go ahead, but dont use this to justify himself

If OP has a life, he would be reading their emails as their job probably needs them to keep up to date with it. It's not defending the practice, it's defending fricking common sense.

-Cuckery:

so much cuckery in replies on a piracy subreddit of all places

it's a digital game they can always ask for proof of purchase or something like that to validate a genuine customer

Comments are really split nearly 50/50, with highly upvoted and downvoted posts on each side. it seems like the juiciest ones may have been deleted, but the arguments and multi-paragraphs responses are strong with this one.

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1deh5qe/comments_locked_as_users_on_rpiratedgames_argue/