The Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
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Feck you web browser, deleting my post because I accidentally clicked "back" on this tab.
Anyways, long story short. Website has a Buy Now button that changes depending on if you are logged in to your minecraft.net account or not.
I already had a minecraft.net account but wasn't logged in to it at the time. When I redeemed the game I clicked the Buy Now button and thought the whole account creation thing on the mojang.com website was required and that I would later have an option to bind the game to my existing minecraft.net account.
So far that does not seem likely. After I registerd the game I found out that indeed the game is not bound to my minecraft.net account as there was never a step in the process that let me specifiy an existing account, instead it's bound to a totally different account... on minecraft.net. (I now have 2 minecraft.net accounts.)
So if I had logged in to my minecraft.net account before attempting to redeem the game, then I would have gone through an entirely different process to what I ended up going through, this was not made clear to me at all. In the 2 images I link, you will see that the website offers no hint that logging in to an existing account will take you through an entirely different process to what you go through if you aren't logged in to an account.
I feel like I've been swindled in to unkowingly taking an approach that did not yield the outcome I desired. If someone could transfer the game to the other account and delete the account created via mojang.com that would be swell. (Contact me for account details, if it is possible)
Oh and for those who think I didnt search for the answer, I did, I did not find an appropriate answer and the help site does not offer a method of asking a question (Or I didn't see one)
Edit: the whole issue boils down to me pedantically wanting to log in via username, not email address. Accounts made via mojang.com require you to log in via specifying an email address, the client will command you to do so should you try to use the username associated to that account.
Why is there an arbirtary limitation imposed on accounts made via mojang.com if the end result results in a minecraft.net account, the same type of account that you'd get if you register via minecraft.net?
The Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
Join Date:
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Ah I see, so there was a forum issue before that was preventing me from accessing here. I clicked the green button to accept the terms and mistakenly assumed it spawned an alternate tab/browser window to the help website (Which I had open at the time) by mistake. I assumed this because it was just taking me back to the screen to click the green button everytime I clicked it and mistakenly associated it with the other tab I already had opened.
Though the above (Within this post) is probably irerelevant now since the browser ate my original post that better explained my initial attempts to find help.
Anyways, yeah still seeking some support here if at all possible. Considering you can't change username I probably would rather the arbitrary limitation on my existing Premium account be lifted so that I can log in to that account via it's username. My current Free account isn't really worth keeping and I don't really like the username I ended up choosing for it.
Both accounts are registered to the same email which is... odd, I wouldn't have thought that was possible but it is!
Anyways, long story short. Website has a Buy Now button that changes depending on if you are logged in to your minecraft.net account or not.
I already had a minecraft.net account but wasn't logged in to it at the time. When I redeemed the game I clicked the Buy Now button and thought the whole account creation thing on the mojang.com website was required and that I would later have an option to bind the game to my existing minecraft.net account.
So far that does not seem likely. After I registerd the game I found out that indeed the game is not bound to my minecraft.net account as there was never a step in the process that let me specifiy an existing account, instead it's bound to a totally different account... on minecraft.net. (I now have 2 minecraft.net accounts.)
So if I had logged in to my minecraft.net account before attempting to redeem the game, then I would have gone through an entirely different process to what I ended up going through, this was not made clear to me at all. In the 2 images I link, you will see that the website offers no hint that logging in to an existing account will take you through an entirely different process to what you go through if you aren't logged in to an account.
I feel like I've been swindled in to unkowingly taking an approach that did not yield the outcome I desired. If someone could transfer the game to the other account and delete the account created via mojang.com that would be swell. (Contact me for account details, if it is possible)
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Oh and for those who think I didnt search for the answer, I did, I did not find an appropriate answer and the help site does not offer a method of asking a question (Or I didn't see one)
Edit: the whole issue boils down to me pedantically wanting to log in via username, not email address. Accounts made via mojang.com require you to log in via specifying an email address, the client will command you to do so should you try to use the username associated to that account.
Why is there an arbirtary limitation imposed on accounts made via mojang.com if the end result results in a minecraft.net account, the same type of account that you'd get if you register via minecraft.net?
Though the above (Within this post) is probably irerelevant now since the browser ate my original post that better explained my initial attempts to find help.
Anyways, yeah still seeking some support here if at all possible. Considering you can't change username I probably would rather the arbitrary limitation on my existing Premium account be lifted so that I can log in to that account via it's username. My current Free account isn't really worth keeping and I don't really like the username I ended up choosing for it.
Both accounts are registered to the same email which is... odd, I wouldn't have thought that was possible but it is!