Comment on Mojang reveals The Sift as the first new Minecraft dimension in 14 years

• rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Ah yes, the famous DRM.

  Some launchers allow you to play fully offline, but only after you’ve authenticated and started the game at least once with a real Microsoft account. The launcher has a sophisticated validation mechanism to ensure this: it is stored in a boolean value in a JSON file.

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  • cybernihongo@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And yet the Microsoft account migration which can be easily defeated by a JSON file according to you has attracted a class action lawsuit. Curious. Almost as if circumventing it is not my point.

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    • atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Do you know what the lawsuit is about? Or what drm is?

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  • whimsy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think Prism launcher actually disabled this is in the newer versions? Please correct me if I’m wrong because I really don’t wanna give microsoft any more money

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    • cybernihongo@reddthat.com ⁨53⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Official Prism requires you to sign in with a Microsoft account at least once. But since Prism is open source, you can also download unofficial builds with no Microsoft anything whatsoever.

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