Reliability is probably about the same, but the Microsoft account signup process is a nightmare compared to the old Mojang system. There's like 4 different X-Box or Game like websites with slightly different usernames and they don't talk with one another and various features are scattered across all of them. Even flipping the switch that lets you join an online game is buried half a dozen menus deep in the bowels of the system and is labeled in a way that you'll never find it if you didn't Google for the instructions first. It's so unnecessarily complex and confusing.
The worst part is that some bot years ago signed up for the X-Box account using the same email I used for the Mojang account so converting the account first required me to take over the bot account with a password reset. But the bot set the account in up German and it's apparently impossible to switch the language settings for everything. I got most of it switched over (across four completely different configuration pages), but stuff like the emails are still sent in German. I'm pretty sure my account is going to be locked sometime in the future once they figure out that it was originally a bot account and there is no chance I'm going to be able to get my alpha Minecraft account back when that happens.
The Mojang accounts weren't great for security. No 2FA or anything (just security questions), and if you lost your account / it was stolen, you were pretty stuffed. The only way to recover it was to present the transaction ID of your purchase of the game to support, which most people don't have and you were never told to keep. I saw lots of people get permanently locked out of their accounts.
I guess it also doesn't make sense for them to maintain a parallel login system when the Microsoft one gets (presumably) millions of dollars of investment every year. Though Microsoft accounts are more complicated to use, with configuration being split across Microsoft, Xbox, and Mojang/Minecraft itself. And it seems they like locking people out for opaque reasons.
>The Mojang accounts weren't great for security. No 2FA or anything (just security questions), and if you lost your account / it was stolen, you were pretty stuffed. The only way to recover it was to present the transaction ID of your purchase of the game to support, which most people don't have and you were never told to keep. I saw lots of people get permanently locked out of their accounts.
It was in fact super easy to just search my email Inbox for emails from Mojand and find the proof or purchase.
With MS I have 3 fucking accounts and not by choice, they bought Skype and Mojand and forced me into their super shitty system, I spent 30 minutes 1 year ago to migrate the Minecrtaft accoutn and more then 30 minutes a few weeks back to login back into Minecraft because I needed to detective my way to figureout what Microsoft account they connected to my Mojang purchase.
I hope in a few years someone leaks what greedy motives were behind this forced migrations, probably to sell more shit.
The mojang accounts were superior in every way in terms of security. Hahha, microsoft is a huge attack surface. And with microsoft, you also need to secure your account against microsoft itself, which isn't easy, they will randomly extort previously unknown personal information like phone numbers to access your account. If you only have 1 number, and its linked to a different account, you just lost your account.
I don't understand why people think a microsoft account could ever possibly be more secure.
As a random example, if your Microsoft account is OAuthed to a GitHub login, and you log in through that, the popup browser just takes you back to a Microsoft account settings page instead of handing the OAuth flow back to Minecraft
In what way? Does the microsoft.com login system go down often?