Microsoft account won't connect to Minecraft services on Minecraft: Java Edition Launcher

Anonymous
2021-05-31T04:43:15+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2022-02-12T16:01:44+00:00

    My launcher started working again this morning. No change on my end, I suspect they fixed whatever encryption problem they were having with authentication to the minecraft servers.

    Yep, my launcher log ( "%APPDATA%.minecraft\launcher_log.txt" on my machine ) is clean. I don't see those SSL/TLS errors anymore. In the future, if anyone needs to see a cleaner log for troubleshooting, you can always deleted that file and re-start the launcher and it will regenerate with new logs.

    I'm definitely keeping MultiMC in my back pocket for any future issues!

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-02-19T00:37:12+00:00

    Had the same issue, what solved it for me was using the older launcher, minecraftlauncher.msi

    I found the link to the installer in the Mojang's purchase email. Hope that helps.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-02-24T13:18:00+00:00

    This solved my issues thanks! It also solved a login loop issue that other xbox launcher games were having

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-03-05T04:22:17+00:00

    you have to login into Microsoft store with the same account in minecraft

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-03-16T01:02:40+00:00

    ME TOO! Extremely irritated ive done everything , reinstalled cleaned verified i own the game gone to the MS store and added the game to my "xbox" account. deleted all the directories , restarted my internet. xbox Site says i own the game . all the help items ive already tried , any i have not want me to click start and go to the ms store. Im not a windows user .. I host 6 servers in the same room from me 8 feet away and i cant even log in . never a problem for 5 years the second i migrate to Microsoft i cant get in anymore . it just says player as my name next to demo ive been at it for about 4 hrs. exactly what i was afraid of and why ive been putting off migrating

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