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Whenever I open the Minecraft launcher signed in as my Microsoft account which is my only account it will show me a message that says: "Oh no! Something went wrong, and we couldn't connect to Minecraft Services" and the Play button is replaced with a Play offline button but once I click that to play offline, it will say I need to make a profile even though I have a profile and have been playing the game until this error occurred. But once I click to create a profile, it will sign me into the Minecraft website and bring me to my account profile screen where it will give me the message: "Something went wrong... press reload to try again." and once I click reload, nothing changes. this error happened on Friday, May 28th.
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i have something similar. I open my minecraft java launcher and in the bottom right it says "sorry, could not connect to minecraft services" and it says "play offline" a few seconds later it goes to the normal play button, but i cant access the realms menu or play multiplayer. my wifi is connected too, so...
Oh yeah as for the buy bedrock/java get the other free that only works if you game pass for PC and even then you will have payed for the game in game pass for PC in 3 to 5 months depending on if you can use the get game pass for PC for a $1 for 2 months. And once you stop game pass for PC you lose the other edition of Minecraft.
THe windows 7 / 8 launcher began to work when Microsoft or Mojang fixed the 401 error I found in the logfile.
checking the logfile seems to be a good idea if one exists. I only have the java edition. Not the newer versions and I cnnot install Minecraft on Windows 11 since none of my pc's has Windows 11 support (newest pc is from 2015 or 2016)
I don't think you can do anything more than simply go to https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/ and buy Minecraft Java from there as that is what I did and I have not had any problems playing Java since. Also if you give me a second I can link files for the original launcher I used. Here you go: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1iTaIEZnNgWa1424KElmu2SfRw7ewMHQy?usp=sharing
I have actually tried this, and a lot of other methods as well. The video attached has all the methods that I have tried. https://youtu.be/SWbW705l25w
I have also checked on another pc if the problem is my pc. It is not as the problem persists on the other pc as well.
My brother has also bought Minecraft starter pack and he gets the same problem, so it's not an issue with the account or the pc.
I have also checked the internet.
Please try and fix this as soon as possible as i really want to play Java edition but due to this error I cannot.
