I have JavaScript disabled generally and I don't want to make an exception for Microsoft as the JavaScript seems to be obfuscated, so I won't make a Microsoft account for Minecraft (unless someone releases a free program to manage Microsoft accounts). Now if Microsoft started adding DRMs and other malwares into the game, i would then probably switch to one of those patched launchers for pirated games (patched 1.6 ones) or use a fork of MultiMC/GDLauncher/whatever that let me play offline mode. Why would i want to stop logging in really? There's just no point since i own the game. Just know that you don't even need a launcher to run Minecraft really, you can just launch the jar with java and commandline if you're brave enough, and it will be in offline-mode. I'm not giving you pirated launchers for sure. Though, Notch himself agreed that piracy definitely helps Minecraft, a launcher still might not want to be associated with that sort of things. MultiMC just put that restriction to make pirating the game harder, that's it. Yes, the account system isn't open-source, but it never was to begin with anyways. It is just a web request using MS's API really, it might require you to launch your browser once to load the JS page but not afterwards. And if the official launcher can use offline mode indefinitely, that makes it even weirder that /r/Minecraft would remove my post.ĭo you know of an open source launcher that allows for indefinite offline play? Or would you just use the official launcher if you wanted to stop logging in for whatever reason? I guess I was sort of conflating MultiMC with Minecraft, but I assumed there was some technical reason for MultiMC requiring a login (for example if the jar required a token or something passed from the launcher). I am not aware of any program the re-implements the account management app with free software or allows de-compiling the account management app (like MultiMC for the Minecraft launcher or MCP for Minecraft itself). I know those with Microsoft accounts can continue to play old versions, but I don't want a Microsoft account because logging in to a Microsoft account seems to require running additional software in the form of JavaScript. Is there anyone in this subreddit that plans to continue playing Minecraft but avoid using a Microsoft account? I suppose the reason for the removal is that removing the account requirement could be a first step towards piracy, as Mojang would not be able to see the same account connecting from lots of different locations. When Microsoft bought Mojang, some people in the comments in the megathread suggested treating 1.8 as the last version, so, why is it so difficult to find information on how to actually do this? When I asked how to do this on /r/Minecraft, the post was removed due to "piracy", even though it seems like it should be possible to do this without redistributing Minecraft or Minecraft accounts. And my understanding was that it was possible to decompile Minecraft to source code relatively easily (which is why modding is relatively easy compared to other games), so any restrictions imposed by the jar itself should also be possible to remove with a mod. I use the third-party launcher called MultiMC, which is free software, so any unnecessary restrictions imposed by MultiMC should be easy to remove. I checked the sha256sum of the client jar for 1.7.10 (a4fc2284657544e0f4bcc964f927c2fda3e3a205178ed1d5d58883aaf9780cce), and searching for it yields results, so that suggests that Minecraft 1.7.10 is not using any sort of per-player encryption scheme on the jar or something. I primarily want to play single player and over LAN. But, in the past year or so I've been trying to use offline mode more often, and every so often MultiMC requires me to log in again before launching the game, in the most recent case saying "The account has expired and needs to be logged in manually again.". My (possibly incorrect) understanding was that Minecraft did not have DRM, and this comment from 2014 suggests that this was at least the case when 1.7.10 was the latest version. This isn't specifically related to Minecraft 1.7.10 but rather any version of Minecraft released before 10 March 2022, which includes 1.7.10.
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