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0 pointsykl4y ago0 comments

With the current launcher, you can actually pick which version/update to play, including old versions. For Java Edition, it lists versions all the way back to alpha as options.

0 pointsykl4y ago0 comments

With the current launcher, you can actually pick which version/update to play, including old versions. For Java Edition, it lists versions all the way back to alpha as options.

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rightbyte4y ago· 4 in thread

This is so user-unhostile I wanna cry. Most companies just want the power to force antifeutures on the users nowadays.

RugnirViking4y ago

The Microsoft acquisition of Minecraft is inexplicably one of the few big tech acquisitions that hasn't completely destroyed the product. It's impressive

fnord1234y ago

Eh, aside from making java and bedrock incompatible, requiring Xbox live accounts to play, deleting customer accounts in the transition to Xbox live, making realms which are different somehow from java and bedrock (many parents had a devil if a time figuring out how to setup a server for kids playing on all the platforms during lockdown)... Aside from this they didn't ruin it.

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rightbyte4y ago

Ye well MS can't wish the old offline installers out of existence I guess.

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null4bl34y ago

They soon plan to only allow logging in with Microsoft accounts no?

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