When my Mojang account was forcibly transferred over to a Microsoft account, I suddenly no longer owned Minecraft.
And since I no longer had access to the email account I had used for the original purchase nine years prior, Microsoft support outright refused to even talk to me, unless I prove ownership beyond all doubt.
That I owned the email address currently linked to the account, and had played the game just a week before, and that I knew the security questions/answers wasn't proof enough for them. And yes I really KNEW all the security answers - as those were stored in my keepass.
They treated me like a criminal, and I never learned whether the game disappeared by accident, or if they removed it intentionally because some algorithm thought I got it illegitimately...
As far as I personally am concerned, they already did ruin Minecraft.
No idea honestly. The initial launcher updates definitely have been .NET and we're completely broken on Linux. I never went any deeper than accidentally updating the launcher back then.
And since I no longer had access to the email account I had used for the original purchase nine years prior, Microsoft support outright refused to even talk to me, unless I prove ownership beyond all doubt.
That I owned the email address currently linked to the account, and had played the game just a week before, and that I knew the security questions/answers wasn't proof enough for them. And yes I really KNEW all the security answers - as those were stored in my keepass.
They treated me like a criminal, and I never learned whether the game disappeared by accident, or if they removed it intentionally because some algorithm thought I got it illegitimately...
As far as I personally am concerned, they already did ruin Minecraft.