yesterday when trying to get onto Minecraft it displayed me with the "play offline" button rather than play. I have gotten that many times before so I did my usual troubleshooting of restarting my computer and the launcher. Neither worked but when I opened Minecraft servers worked anyways so I thought there was no issue with it.
Today though, I tried to get on again and it displayed the same "play offline" button as well as a "we cannot connect to Minceaft services" notification at the bottom of the launcher. When opening Minecraft I thought it would work like it did yesterday but it did not. I tried restarting my computer and launcher twice but still no the result so I went to my plan B. I uninstalled the Minecraft launcher and deleted the .minecraft folder, so there would be no traces of it then. I reinstalled the game but this time it showed me a "play demo button" and said I needed to buy the game (look at the screenshot I sent). I used the same Microsoft account I merged my Mojang account and everything and it still said I need to buy it.
I have tried a lot of troubleshooting such as disabling my firewall and checking if my router is blocking it but still no change. I even reinstalled the game again and checked for updates on my network adapter and still nothing. What else can I do to make my game work? I am really wanting to play on a server with my family and I can't even open the game!
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Thank you so much Barnos! It worked perfectly!
UPDATE: It came back. The "play demo" button is gone now and has been replaced with the "play offline" button.
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This issue may be caused by the newest gift bundle feature. The Launcher does not recognize the Java profile - your Java profile name is displayed as Player. It is an issue that we are working on to fix as soon as possible. However, you can try to download the MS Store Launcher and Xbox App Companion from MS Store, and see if it fix your issue.
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