Scarlett Dougherty

Reading it back now, my comment was a little unclear. Make sure to paste the workDir line after the text that is already in the target box. Hit space, and then paste the workDir line. If it's still unclear you can google a fix for the error I mentioned above and get better instructions, if your crashes aren't caused by the same error I don't know if this will help but it did help me so I figured it could be useful to post.

I think the problem might be a fatal error with java, I didn't get any indication of an error until I tried the alternative launcher download off of the Minecraft website but I couldn't run it because of a Java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError. I YouTubed a fix for this and it was suggested that --workDir %ProgramData%\.minecraft be paste into the target box under properties(right click minecraft, all the way at the bottom). Hit apply, ok, and start minecraft. My game finally seems to be working without any problems, I hope this helps some of you!

I have this exact problem. I've made sure everything is updated as well and reinstalled the game. Might be important to note that I bought the game 2 days ago and it hasn't worked once, crashes after hitting play every single time.