{"id":42100,"date":"2013-05-29T15:37:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T13:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=42100"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:25:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:25:00","slug":"upgrade-to-a-paid-minecraft-account-before-june-3rd-to-ensure-keeping-your-user-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/upgrade-to-a-paid-minecraft-account-before-june-3rd-to-ensure-keeping-your-user-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrade to a paid Minecraft account before June 3rd to ensure keeping your user name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/minecraft.en.softonic.com\/\">Minecraft<\/a><\/strong> account users won&#8217;t be able to guarantee keeping their user names unless they the game by June 3rd. Mojang Support Manager Marc Watson tweeted the news today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>If you&#8217;re sitting on an unpaid Minecraft username, upgrade before June 3rd or you may not be able to upgrade it later <a title=\"http:\/\/help.mojang.com\/customer\/portal\/articles\/428478-minecraft-account-types\" href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/kRtfBpIl71\">help.mojang.com\/customer\/porta\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marc Watson (@Marc_IRL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Marc_IRL\/status\/339555015565922304\">May 29, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Originally, you signed up to Minecraft with a free or paid &#8216;Minecraft account&#8217;. With this, you logged in with a username and password. Mojang is migrating people to newer &#8216;Mojang accounts&#8217;, which require you to log in with an email address and password.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42101\" title=\"Migrate your Minecraft account\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/Migrateminecraft.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/Migrateminecraft.png 600w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/Migrateminecraft-300x57.png 300w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/Migrateminecraft-238x45.png 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you have a free account, you could lose your username if you don&#8217;t migrate to a Mojang account before June 3rd. You can not get a free Mojang account &#8211; you only get one if you buy Minecraft. Paid accounts will also have to migrate, but there is no chance of losing their usernames. After June 3rd, if someone buys Minecraft they will be able to register with your free account username, meaning you won&#8217;t be able to have it when you buy the full game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free Minecraft account users won&#8217;t be able to guarantee keeping their user names unless they the game by June 3rd. Mojang Support Manager Marc Watson tweeted the news today. If you&#8217;re sitting on an unpaid Minecraft username, upgrade before June 3rd or you may not be able to upgrade it later help.mojang.com\/customer\/porta\u2026 \u2014 Marc Watson &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/upgrade-to-a-paid-minecraft-account-before-june-3rd-to-ensure-keeping-your-user-name\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Upgrade to a paid Minecraft account before June 3rd to ensure keeping your user name&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2328],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-42100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionminecraft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332864,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42100\/revisions\/332864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42100"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=42100"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=42100"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=42100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}