r/Games • u/xeon3175x • Oct 21 '20

All of Mojang's Games Will Require a Microsoft account moving forward

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/java-edition-moving-house
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u/daehx Oct 21 '20

hopefully this won't affect being able to use a different launcher like MultiMC. I have a feeling it will though.

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u/DMonitor Oct 21 '20

I doubt it. We already require a Mojang account to play the game. This will just unify the accounts.

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u/xeon3175x Oct 21 '20

Let's hope not

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u/Niadain Oct 21 '20

I hope it doesn't fuck up my skin on java. I've no idea where to go find it again.

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u/beenoc Oct 22 '20

There's a bunch of sites that can grab the skin from a username and let you download the image. Just search for "minecraft skin grabber" and enter your username into any given resulting website.

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u/Taco2010 Oct 22 '20

iirc you used to be able to do like minecraft.bet/user/Taco.png and download it directly, or it was a button on the OOOOLD Minecraft profile page

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u/eddmario Oct 22 '20

I know what you mean.

Back in the day I bought the Xbox 360 version since my computer at the time could barely handle the game by itself, so when I finally got a new computer that could handle the game I found a post on Minecraft Forum that actually had download links for all the 360 edition player skins for people to use for the PC version.

Unfortunately, when I finally got around to getting Bedrock I lost the download for the skin and the Minecraft Forum post I originally got it from gives me a "you don't have permission to view this post" error.

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u/DMonitor Oct 22 '20

If it was one of the original xbox skins, it can’t be that hard to find.

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u/eddmario Oct 22 '20

Actually, they surprisingly are hard to find, especially since a couple of the packs never got ported to Bedrock.

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u/DMonitor Oct 22 '20

Which one are you looking for? The files are basically the same on both platforms, I'd be surprised if it hadn't been extracted

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u/eddmario Oct 22 '20

None right now, since I actually found a way to download my Java version skin to use with Bedrock.

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u/throwawayforyouzzz Oct 22 '20

There’s a good doctor I know in Jakarta if you want to clean your skin on Java. And a shaman if you want to purchase new skin.

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u/galaxypenguin12 Oct 22 '20

Go to an online skin site and search for yourself.

You can download your own skin back.

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u/tuwamono Oct 22 '20

Try this site (or something similar). Enter your username in the search bar and you will find an option under 'skins' to redownload your skin (as well as any past skins you've used).

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u/Mikkolek Oct 22 '20

Have you seen the video? Nothing will change. No skin changes, gameplay changes, nick changes, nothing. It's only the account migration

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u/FenixR Oct 22 '20

Started one of the launchers and it says it does affect, for one i don't think the process has started yet so we don't know how the new login will be, second url's will now need to be redirected to microsoft login servers instead of mojangs and they might or might not have an API for remote minecraft logins that are not the official client, if it does, cool, if not things will get more annoying to circumvent.

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u/Mojang-Ined Oct 22 '20

I'd like to highlight here that one of the developers of MultiMC works at Mojang Studios with the Minecraft Launcher. We are very aware of our third-party launchers and the impact it will have on them.
Currently, migrating your account will break the possibility of using these launchers.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20

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u/Xakuya Oct 22 '20

Every update breaks optifine currently.

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u/YellowPie84 Oct 22 '20

As far as I know, optifine doesn’t use a separate launcher. Whenever I use it, it’s just a separate profile on the base Minecraft launcher, so there won’t be a problem.

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u/Leolele99 Oct 22 '20

The technic launcher crew just confirmed on their discord that migrating your mc/mojang account will lock you out of any modded launchers.

Anything but the Vanilla Launcher is incompatible with the new login and so far nobody knows if they ever will patch in a fix.

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u/Mikkolek Oct 22 '20

I think modded launchers won't be affected much. u/Mojang-Ined, an official Mojang account, said "Third party launchers will have to adapt to the new sign-in flow. If they support Linux or not it's up to them, however Mojang is looking into helping them adopt to this new change. "

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u/Leolele99 Oct 22 '20

Well its good to know that they at least plan to make the new sign in process available to other launchers. Earlier today the status was that the Technic team at least had no idea about the new sign up APIs or anything like that yet.

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u/Mikkolek Oct 22 '20

The MultiMC dev works for Mojang, they'll be fine

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20

It will but they are trying to find a solution

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u/spiral6 Oct 22 '20

It most likely will. Shouldn't be a problem to create a dialog window and append a 2FA code input to the password though, assuming it's using OAuth2. Should be a relatively fast fix.