I have two copies of Minecraft, the Java edition and the Windows 10 edition. I had the Windows 10 edition\bedrock edition from before having the Java edition let you have access to the Windows 10 edition. But now you can migrate Java accounts to bedrock\Windows10\11 accounts, but of course I already have access to both version from my old Windows 10 copy.
So my question is can I migrate my old Java account to a different Microsoft account and have two copies of the game? The thing is though that I have the same username on both accounts, so will I have to choose a new username for my second account as it would have already been taken by my first?
Yes, I have two copies on the same email. I got the Java version in 2012 and then at some point Microsoft offered a free copy of the Windows 10 version to everyone, so I got a second copy. But this wasn't an account migration, I just happened to use the same email. So I now have two copies of the game, one with a Microsoft account that has both games and one Mojang account which was original a legacy username only account.
I think you can just migrate the Java version to your Microsoft account, since Bedrock and Java are two different games, they should just live together fine under one Microsoft account, at least mine do.
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Originally if you had the Java version you would not have the Bedrock version and if you had the Bedrock version you would not have the Java version. You had to buy both, but they offered everyone the Bedrock version for free for a short period. My Microsoft account has both versions, and I have yet to migrate my Mojang account.
Yes that's what I did. I had Java from alpha times, and they offered bedrock for free so I grabbed bedrock on my Microsoft account, then migrated my Java account to the same Microsoft account.
If your Microsoft account has both versions listed, then you've already migrated, have you not? I'm confused as to how you can have your Java listed under your Microsoft account and not have migrated your Mojang account to your Microsoft account.
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1. You originally had a Mojang account under which you bought Minecraft Java.
2. At some point you bought Minecraft Bedrock from Windows store, while logged into your Microsoft account. It could be same username/email as your Mojang account, but those are separate accounts. Just like you can have Apple and Amazon accounts with same ID/email.
3. You are saying when MS was offering Bedrock free to any Java owner, you took the offer. This is where it gets a bit murky. You CANNOT have 2 copies of same game under one MS account. When redeeming that Bedrock offer, you needed to supply a Microsoft account that did NOT have Bedrock on it yet. Different email/username. If you tried to claim it with your existing MS account, you likely just did not realize that the claim failed. I vaguely recall the process, did it on 4 accounts. You needed to click that claim button on the website, then it prompted you to log onto an MS account if you were not yet. Then MC Bedroock was flagged 'bought' in Windows store.
4. Sometime in 2022, MS made the offer again-this time both ways. If you logged into MC launcher with your MS account that used to have just Bedrock, then you could also download and play Java version on it.
If that is the situation, then yeah, you should be able to migrate your old Mojang account still - you will need to create a different MS account under different email for that.
Yes that's what I did. I had Java from alpha times, and they offered bedrock for free so I grabbed bedrock on my Microsoft account, then migrated my Java account to the same Microsoft account.
If your Microsoft account has both versions listed, then you've already migrated, have you not? I'm confused as to how you can have your Java listed under your Microsoft account and not have migrated your Mojang account to your Microsoft account.
1. You originally had a Mojang account under which you bought Minecraft Java.
2. At some point you bought Minecraft Bedrock from Windows store, while logged into your Microsoft account. It could be same username/email as your Mojang account, but those are separate accounts. Just like you can have Apple and Amazon accounts with same ID/email.
3. You are saying when MS was offering Bedrock free to any Java owner, you took the offer. This is where it gets a bit murky. You CANNOT have 2 copies of same game under one MS account. When redeeming that Bedrock offer, you needed to supply a Microsoft account that did NOT have Bedrock on it yet. Different email/username. If you tried to claim it with your existing MS account, you likely just did not realize that the claim failed. I vaguely recall the process, did it on 4 accounts. You needed to click that claim button on the website, then it prompted you to log onto an MS account if you were not yet. Then MC Bedroock was flagged 'bought' in Windows store.
4. Sometime in 2022, MS made the offer again-this time both ways. If you logged into MC launcher with your MS account that used to have just Bedrock, then you could also download and play Java version on it.
If that is the situation, then yeah, you should be able to migrate your old Mojang account still - you will need to create a different MS account under different email for that.
No I have only bought one copy of the game, the original version in 2012. I claimed the free copy of the Windows 10 version when it was offered, this was not an account migration and they are not offering everyone the same deal again. What they are doing now is adding the Java version to the Microsoft launcher and converting Mojang accounts to Microsoft accounts. I have both version in my Microsoft account and am getting emails to migrate my Mojang account.
Ok, if you never actually paid for Bedrock separately:
Quite sure that when one claimed that free Bedrock copy, it associated their Mojang account with the MS account used. When one later migrated their Mojang account, it would automatically migrate it to that MS account.
I had 4 Mojang accounts in the family, and I claimed Bedrock edition on all of them (on 4 separate MS accounts) when the offer was up in 2019. When I got the prompts to migrate, I do not remember it giving me an option to choose destination accounts. For each Mojang account, it just pulled up the corresponding MS account used for Bedrock claim.
If you migrate your Mojang account now, it will basically just disappear.
So, to go over timeline:
Sep 2017 and before: one created a Mojang account, bought Java Microsoft there, and needed to be logged into their Mojang account to play it.
Sep 2017: Bedrock released. At this point, one could buy it under an existing Microsoft account. If they also happened to own a Java edition under a Mojang account, those were separate accounts/separate games.
Oct 2018: Free bedrock offer comes around for Java players. To claim their free Bedrock copy, one needed to provide a Microsoft account that did not own a copy of Bedrock already. At this point, it still was separate. One could be logged into their Mojang account and play Java version, at the same time someone else could be logged into the claiming Microsoft account on another PC and play the Bedrock version there.
April 2020: Free Bedrock offer ends.
October 2020: Mojang announces migration of accounts is to take place in near future.
Sometime early 2021: Mojang-to-Microsoft account migration begins. Now this is one part I am not entirely certain about. Potential cases:
People who did NOT claim the free offer and who did not have a copy of Bedrock on an MS account, and only had the Java version: Those were prompted to supply a Microsoft account, and after migrating, they could use it to play Java, but not Bedrock.
People who claimed the offer: for those, migration process automatically pulled up the MS account used to make the claim. I don't remember there being an option to choose another account. After migrating, one could play either Bedrock or Java from that login, but lost the ability to play Java and Bedrock from different PCs at same time.
People who bought Bedrock directly in 2017-18 and did not claim the free offer. Those were definitely given the option to choose a destination account, but wonder if they could use one with Bedrock on it, and got any warnings about it. Anyone who migrated a Mojang account into an MS account with independently-bought Bedrock, pretty much screwed themselves over.
March 2022: Migration becomes mandatory. Mojang accounts can no longer be used to play the Java version. You have to login at Minecraft.net and migrate to an MS account.
June 2022: Minecraft becomes a single Java+Bedrock bundle product, no longer bought separate. Any MS accounts that previously had only one of the versions, now get access to both.
Sep 19, 2023: The announced deadline to migrate one's Mojang account. After that, all unmigrated accounts are deleted.
I tried migrating, and it asked me to enter a code sent to my email, which I did. It then comes up with a message,
It looks like you might already have a Microsoft account
to continue to Minecraft
Choose which account you want to upgrade to.
It does come up with my Microsoft account as an option, but it also gives me an option to choose another account. I did not select choose another account, as I am unsure what I want to do. I could enter another account of mine and maybe get two copies, but what really is the point, or I could try and give it to someone else.
I have two copies of Minecraft, the Java edition and the Windows 10 edition. I had the Windows 10 edition\bedrock edition from before having the Java edition let you have access to the Windows 10 edition. But now you can migrate Java accounts to bedrock\Windows10\11 accounts, but of course I already have access to both version from my old Windows 10 copy.
So my question is can I migrate my old Java account to a different Microsoft account and have two copies of the game? The thing is though that I have the same username on both accounts, so will I have to choose a new username for my second account as it would have already been taken by my first?
You don't make much sense there. Same username = same account. Is it on a different email?
Sounds like you bought Java edition on the same account where you already had Win10 one.
Yes, I have two copies on the same email. I got the Java version in 2012 and then at some point Microsoft offered a free copy of the Windows 10 version to everyone, so I got a second copy. But this wasn't an account migration, I just happened to use the same email. So I now have two copies of the game, one with a Microsoft account that has both games and one Mojang account which was original a legacy username only account.
I think you can just migrate the Java version to your Microsoft account, since Bedrock and Java are two different games, they should just live together fine under one Microsoft account, at least mine do.
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To tell them how to live is to prevent them living.
Originally if you had the Java version you would not have the Bedrock version and if you had the Bedrock version you would not have the Java version. You had to buy both, but they offered everyone the Bedrock version for free for a short period. My Microsoft account has both versions, and I have yet to migrate my Mojang account.
Yes that's what I did. I had Java from alpha times, and they offered bedrock for free so I grabbed bedrock on my Microsoft account, then migrated my Java account to the same Microsoft account.
If your Microsoft account has both versions listed, then you've already migrated, have you not? I'm confused as to how you can have your Java listed under your Microsoft account and not have migrated your Mojang account to your Microsoft account.
D_B
To tell them how to live is to prevent them living.
Ok, so lets get that straight.
1. You originally had a Mojang account under which you bought Minecraft Java.
2. At some point you bought Minecraft Bedrock from Windows store, while logged into your Microsoft account. It could be same username/email as your Mojang account, but those are separate accounts. Just like you can have Apple and Amazon accounts with same ID/email.
3. You are saying when MS was offering Bedrock free to any Java owner, you took the offer. This is where it gets a bit murky. You CANNOT have 2 copies of same game under one MS account. When redeeming that Bedrock offer, you needed to supply a Microsoft account that did NOT have Bedrock on it yet. Different email/username. If you tried to claim it with your existing MS account, you likely just did not realize that the claim failed. I vaguely recall the process, did it on 4 accounts. You needed to click that claim button on the website, then it prompted you to log onto an MS account if you were not yet. Then MC Bedroock was flagged 'bought' in Windows store.
4. Sometime in 2022, MS made the offer again-this time both ways. If you logged into MC launcher with your MS account that used to have just Bedrock, then you could also download and play Java version on it.
If that is the situation, then yeah, you should be able to migrate your old Mojang account still - you will need to create a different MS account under different email for that.
No I have only bought one copy of the game, the original version in 2012. I claimed the free copy of the Windows 10 version when it was offered, this was not an account migration and they are not offering everyone the same deal again. What they are doing now is adding the Java version to the Microsoft launcher and converting Mojang accounts to Microsoft accounts. I have both version in my Microsoft account and am getting emails to migrate my Mojang account.
Ok, if you never actually paid for Bedrock separately:
Quite sure that when one claimed that free Bedrock copy, it associated their Mojang account with the MS account used. When one later migrated their Mojang account, it would automatically migrate it to that MS account.
I had 4 Mojang accounts in the family, and I claimed Bedrock edition on all of them (on 4 separate MS accounts) when the offer was up in 2019. When I got the prompts to migrate, I do not remember it giving me an option to choose destination accounts. For each Mojang account, it just pulled up the corresponding MS account used for Bedrock claim.
If you migrate your Mojang account now, it will basically just disappear.
So, to go over timeline:
Sep 2017 and before: one created a Mojang account, bought Java Microsoft there, and needed to be logged into their Mojang account to play it.
Sep 2017: Bedrock released. At this point, one could buy it under an existing Microsoft account. If they also happened to own a Java edition under a Mojang account, those were separate accounts/separate games.
Oct 2018: Free bedrock offer comes around for Java players. To claim their free Bedrock copy, one needed to provide a Microsoft account that did not own a copy of Bedrock already. At this point, it still was separate. One could be logged into their Mojang account and play Java version, at the same time someone else could be logged into the claiming Microsoft account on another PC and play the Bedrock version there.
April 2020: Free Bedrock offer ends.
October 2020: Mojang announces migration of accounts is to take place in near future.
Sometime early 2021: Mojang-to-Microsoft account migration begins. Now this is one part I am not entirely certain about. Potential cases:
March 2022: Migration becomes mandatory. Mojang accounts can no longer be used to play the Java version. You have to login at Minecraft.net and migrate to an MS account.
June 2022: Minecraft becomes a single Java+Bedrock bundle product, no longer bought separate. Any MS accounts that previously had only one of the versions, now get access to both.
Sep 19, 2023: The announced deadline to migrate one's Mojang account. After that, all unmigrated accounts are deleted.
It does come up with my Microsoft account as an option, but it also gives me an option to choose another account. I did not select choose another account, as I am unsure what I want to do. I could enter another account of mine and maybe get two copies, but what really is the point, or I could try and give it to someone else.
Well, if it gives you the option, take it. Have a friend/relative supply MS account info on which they can get Minecraft for free.