I just bought the game, downloaded it and went to launch the launcher and the first thing i see is "whoops, sorry something went terribly wrong and you probably encountered a bug please report here."
so here i am reporting it....
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Duplicate of MCL-18214.

download or update your Java it worked for me and it might work for you.

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That's exactly what happened to me right now!