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The only reason I still have a Microslop account is Minecraft. I have to assume that's one of the reasons they bought it.
How about any open source alternative e.g. https://www.luanti.org/ or Minetest or Terasology or Voxel.js or...?
Stripped down to the bare essentials, those are similar. But surely you realize, that the sheer amount of content that was added over the years, and the enormous amount of mods, and the entire community, aren't remotely comparable, right?
This is less of a Photoshop for drawing vs Krita and more of a Photoshop for image editing vs GIMP situation, and even that comparison is kind of unfair to GIMP.
Are they compatible though? Like can I load content, connect to open source servers, uses mods on any client? Please don't presume I know anything about the topic, I'm genuinely trying to understand exactly why alternatives are not good enough.
I'll just assume you're serious and not trying to be a troll. Those aren't launchers or different clients for the same game, they are different games. It's the same as how Tux Cart isn't compatible with Mario Kart. It's just not the same thing. You also wouldn't assume a Teardown mod works in Minecraft, just because both are voxel-based, right?
There are open source Minecraft launchers like Prism, those are cool and useful, and frankly way better than the official one, but they use a Microsoft account too, as your ownership of the game has to be verified, and you can't connect to servers without one.
Yes I'm serious and I'm not a troll. I don't know what in my questions or suggestions make it sound like that but feel free to dig deeper.
Anyway, AFAIK Minecraft has an official client which connect to official servers.
It's possible to replace clients, as listed earlier, but they might still rely on official servers with their accounts as you pointed out. There are though, AFAICT, compatible servers too, e.g. https://glowstone.net/ so one could connect an unofficial client to an unofficial server and thus have a similar experience with no reliance on anything related to Microsoft, no?