Oof, this won't help you, but I recall sending a very angry email to me new corporate overlord in the Xbox org for blocking me from using their web services if my user agent said Linux.

This was during the "Microsoft <3 Linux" campaign, and I think I cited that and then told em Minecraft would not be able to move forward with Xbox account migration until they stopped such idiocy.

Since I was the dev tasked with migrating Mojang accounts to Xbox accounts, I felt I had at least SOME credibility to my claim that it was blocking me.

But honestly, modifying my user agent was easy, it just pissed me off.

They did fix that the same day tho, so I guess the believed me!

Moved my Minecraft license to a new Microsoft account as required. Microsoft account was flagged and blocked when I checked a few days after. And that's how I got scammed out of my Minecraft license.

It wouldn't have helped if you hadn't, since they've now deleted all non-Microsoft accounts.

Reminder to whomever is reading: if you bought the game during alpha, you have the right to all future Minecraft games and a premium account forever. Microsoft barely tried to uphold this by giving a free Bedrock license to alpha buyers for a limited time several years ago. I suppose you'd have to sue them now if they break it, and the judge will wonder why you bothered to bring a $20 dispute to court.

I bought my kid Minecraft and spent two hours trying to get it set up to run on a Windows 10 machine.

In the end I gave up and he plays it on an old Ubuntu laptop instead.

This is a story from some parallel universe right here. You bought a microsoft game and wasn't able to run it on windows, but it works on ubuntu?!? I almost spilled coffee reading this.

Sadly, I don’t find it even a little bit surprising.

The problem was you probably ended up falling for the UWP version instead of the Java version. The Java version remains the community accepted “proper” version to this day.

How did it take two hours to install on windows 10?

it probably didn't work right away and two hours was spent on troubleshooting

Their bot detection systems are _extremely_ overzealous and don't even _tell you_ they're denying you nor offer ANY recourse to correct the problems.

I think I finally managed to make it work in a new/clean Chromium browser profile.

Every time I've made a Microsoft account it's let me create it, then two days later locked me out if I don't give up my phone number.

The first time it was a throwaway account only needed for one day so I abandoned it. The second time I had to give them my phone number. Very scummy.