After migrating my account, I cannot play offline. I bought the game over a decade ago and have been playing for years, but now that I migrated my account, the option of playing offline has gone away entirely.
I was told all I had to do was play online once to "verify" the game, but that did nothing. I played online on multiple versions, but when I went away from wifi for a weekend, I could not play offline. There was no option for Offline. The "Play" button was replaced with the "Play Demo" option and there is no way I can get to offline. A pop up says something along the lines of selecting my migrated account to play the full version, but when I try to do that while not connected to wifi, it tells me it's impossible.
So as of right now, it's impossible to play offline anymore without some cracked version of the game(which I do not have). This "Always online" DRM crap is a problem
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That is not helpful. All the "solutions" there are for another issue. Mine is that offline mode does not exist for me anymore. I cannot play offline. I have migrated and verified my game. I logged into it online and on the mojang website. I still cannot play offline when not connected to wifi. It only lets me play the demo.
This is NOT resolved. Why did you mark it resolved? This isn't even a "duplicate" since that's an entirely different issue
Read the solution on that report, it IS the same issue.
No, it is not. That issue is simply not being able to access the game. Mine is being able to access the game fine online, but not possible OFFLINE.
That "solution" says to log in with your Microsoft account. Great. That doesn't do me any good whatsoever when I'm not able to connect to the internet. When I'm not online, I'd normally play OFFLINE, but the game now doesn't let me. It insists that I log in with my Microsoft account if I want to play the full game, but when I try to, it says I cannot because I am not ONLINE.
THAT is why these are different issues
To reiterate:
"1.Make sure you have internet connection and are connected to Minecraft Services (you do not see a gray info message at the bottom of Minecraft Launcher saying otherwise)"
That does not apply to my issue since I am not able to connect when I am away from home. So how is this a solution when I cannot do it? Before migrating, if I wanted to play, it'd just tell me to play Offline Mode if it couldn't connect. That option is either hidden, not working, or just removed entirely.
I want to play offline when I'm not connected to internet. So telling me to follow the instructions of connecting to the internet does not help my problem of not being able to play offline.
Does MCL-19645 describe your issue?
Sorry, I thought about editing/deleting my comment and decided not to for context.
No, that does not describe my issue.
My issue is that I cannot play when I'm not connected to the internet. I can play fine while connected to the internet. My issue is that if I am not connected to the internet, the game locks to the demo version. It tells me that if I want to play the full game that I need to log in with my Microsoft account, but I cannot do that since I am offline
That's what MCL-19645 is about
My mistake. I thought Jess was referring to the original issue they linked before.
That does describe my issue, but there is no solution there. It's been untouched since mid-last month. Does anyone have a solution to that problem?
Sorry, this isn't "resolved". Linking me to a similar issue is not a solution when that issue has no solution.
Duplicates MCL-16570 Please read for a possible solution.