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Quote from citricsquid»

You can create a Twitch account quickly and easily, for free, all you need to do is:

1. Go to My Account
2. Click "Merge Accounts"
3. Click "Create a new Twitch account"
4. Enter your chosen username, password and email
5. Click "Sign Up"

That's it!

I don't want to sound rude here but if high-level creators keep getting hacked, it's their own fault they use the same password for everything.

Second, there are a lot of people as lazy as I am, who don't really want to make a Twitch account.

Third, why do this? Why not spend your time making MCF better for everyone instead of forcing us to make an account that many of us will never use?

I think I will be just leaving this Forum and find another one.

EDIT: I have to agree with Mastermined. Because of the decline of Minecraft with Microsoft (wooo yay im so happy wooo) why are you trying to turn people away? Seems counterproductive tbh.

i too find this account merging trend despicable. i instinctively desire to show twitch my middle finger and say no. i know they won't be upset, but i'd get a small bit of satisfaction.

but guys, can we be reasonable about this?

citricsquid said he can't successfully manage forum security. he has decided on using another company's system. granted, he could have spent money to have someone upgrade the security but let's be fair: how many of you would pay (a lot) for something you can get on a silver plate?

now we could let this forum suffer a bunch of users leaving (is there even an alternative place to go?), or we can work towards keeping it an awesome place for minecraft players, both new and seasoned. yes twitch will show some of its ads here; so what... people make the forum, and this is an awesome one - that tells a lot about the people. let's not let that go to waste because we dislike twitch.

Guess I'm finally going to leave the forum, then. What a damned shame. Can't wait until Twitch starts doing things that require antitrust suits that never come about, like the rest of the various megacorps.

And if someone can't make an account? Even if the username hasn't been taken? I tried to make an account, but it simply won't allow me so. So honestly, could be my few last posts on this site that I spent YEARS on, and that's saying something.

Plus,I can always speak on discord and read other forms of entertainment, such as SCP articles.

Try again

Seems like everyone is going against this. . . So am I! Twitch basically has no benefit and has nothing to do with minecraft and has no reason to. The Minecraft community doesn't want a streaming community rammed down their throats with no good reason. The only people who want to benefit from this is twitch itself, to add people to their world unwillingly is kinda selfish. We have no option to go with twitch or not and that's unfair, if you HAVE to do this update, change it. To benefit US not just yourself.

Well, I understand that the new Twitch account system would be more secure (theoretically, at least...), but I personally do not care. If a user wants more security for their account, they can change their password regularly or merge with Twitch as an option.

Regardless of whether or not this is actually beneficial, it is annoying as heck and driving people away from the forums (or at least driving people to say they're leaving the forums). Most people (myself included) don't want extra security, and view this as an intrusion of some kind (even if many people, myself included, aren't able to say exactly what kind of intrusion it is... I want to say privacy, but maybe it's just the deprivation of the ability to choose that gets on my nerves).

From a moderator/forum manager's point of view, this might be a good idea. From Twitch's point of view, it's a way to get more users. For a forum user, it probably ranges from being unimportant to extremely annoying.

My point is: I don't want or need more security, I don't want some company/corporation/forum manager telling me what to do with my online accounts, and I don't want to see so many people leave the forums because of this.

This may be the end for me here as well. I have no overt objection to creating a Twitch account, other than the fact that very username I've tried is unavailable. I have no interest in being user1234567, because I'm OCD and names like that irritate me to no end.

Also, some of the usernames I have tried have never had any contest posted, probably because they were forced to create a twitch account as well just so they could participate somewhere else, which is the biggest problem with this nonsense. Huge amounts of users sign up that never participate, but fill up the username pool.

While I do understand the reasons behind this, I can't create a Twitch account with a crappy username (my OCD won't allow it), and if that is the requirement for continued participation here, then I won't be participating after 10/23.

Where will you go? I doubt I'll stick around either. You, like me, are one of a small handful of frequent posters in Survival forum. A couple have already dropped off, it seems. I wonder if we could get the forum's backbone to migrate together.

Quote from Sharpe103»

Where will you go? I doubt I'll stick around either. You, like me, are one of a small handful of frequent posters in Survival forum. A couple have already dropped off, it seems. I wonder if we could get the forum's backbone to migrate together.

Well, thank you for saying so, Janskydunbird! I'm very sorry to hear that you won't be returning.

I thought about doing the same, but . . .

. . . Unfortunately, even if all the people who say they'll not return don't, the Twitch corporatocracy won't care. It won't even notice, nor will it hurt Twitch one bit. It's clear from reading the replies to comments here that Twitch doesn't care at all. Citricsquid has accurately marginalized the 100 or so who have said they won't return as a tiny fraction of those who will stay and those who will later join as Minecraft continues to grow. Leaving will only punish those forumites who stay, and looking at the current state of the Jave Edition Survival forum, we're few.

So, I hope you stay. I hope everyone does. Staying isn't rewarding Twitch's disgraceful behavior. Leaving isn't spiting them. Twitch won't notice either way and simply doesn't care.

Farewell!

Okay so I'm jumping into this discussion in the middle and I have not read all 5 pages to please excuse and repetition.

I do not want a "twitch" account neither do I want my MC Forum account linked to one, I just want to have my normal basic standard Forum account. If I don't merge my account will it disappear because if it will I'll go somewhere else like planet minecraft.

I know what you're going to say "You don't need to use your twitch account, you just need to have it." while this is true I would rather not get a "twitch" account. I don't even know what "twitch" is!

This is ridiculous, I shouldn't have to create another account for another website just to post something here.

What do you guys even gain from this, a few extra pennies worth of profit?

Well MCF, I have been here and watched this forum grow since 2011. Unfortunately it has been decreasing in quality and content for the last couple years. I stopped posting a long time ago but I usually visited the site on a daily basis to see what was going on. We merged with Curse which I didn't like but I was okay with since my WoW days already used curse for mods. MCF was still good, was busy, and a lot of good information being posted. Then Microsoft happened and I don't know.... it seemed like it really started going downhill from there.

The other possibility is that I have grown up. MCF is no longer, nor has it been for sometime, the place I remember. The people I interacted with, played with, posted with, I don't think most of them are even around anymore. I still play MC now and then but mainly solo modded since vanilla just lost its appeal years ago and server communities lost their appeal with the incoming children. But I think that time has ended and this forced merging is its deathnell.

So after years of watching MCF grow, MC change, interacting with the community (and watching the kiddies discover and ruin many MC servers) it is time to say goodbye. It was fun while it lasted but this friendship has come to an end due to the forced merging with other groups that I have no interest being a part of.

Farewell MCF community, the memories will be missed and remembered with fondness. In parting, I hope you all find your place again whether it be with Twitch, another site, or in moving on and away from what MC and MCF used to be. Cheers all, and godspeed.

~Rev

Same, same, and same.

That sounds like my story. As painful as it's been for folks like us to watch this decline, I can't fathom the demoralizing, soul-crushing experience the forum staff must've gone through. I imagine most of the old guard have quit by now.

This is the straw that broke the camel's back.