THthrowaway290·Apr 15, 2022
It is claimed that MultiMC will not work unless you have authenticated it with active Microsoft account at least once on a computer, even if you only want to use it in offline mode: https://github.com/MultiMC/Launcher/issues/4433#issuecomment...
This is probably related to the fact that MultiMC dev allegedly works for MS now.
So even if you paid your hard-earned $30 for Minecraft back in the day, now you apparently also have to pay Microsoft the PII tax in the form of an active phone number.
(Microsoft mines phone numbers via the shady practice of letting anyone quickly migrate their Mojang account, and then within weeks alleging suspicious activity violating ToS. Once it happens, you get a screen that offers none of your previously configured 2FA methods, such as backup codes or TOTP app, requiring you to receive a PIN via SMS. In the en
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d, players submit their numbers voluntarily, because the alternative is to spend hours upon hours bickering with tech support without clear guarantee of success. Upon gaining access and inspecting this 'suspicious activity' players appear to inevitably find it to consist exclusively of their own logins from the same home IP they always use.)