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Shouldn't have been done this way. They could have migrated everyone's accounts. They did this so people would miss the emails or completely forget. So they'd have to buy it again if they came back to play it.
I kinda doubt it. That is such an insignificant amount of money to Microsoft, I doubt they'd do it for that reason. It probably has something to do with conforming to regulations or something random.
What regulations say you have to basically steal someone's access to a game they paid for?
They didn't steal anything. They gave you 3 years to upgrade for free.
If you didn't do it in time then that is on you. They send reminders in every way they could.
"upgrade"
And they are taking it away. If they didn't have the EULA which I believe they had to change to make it possible (or they changed it for another reason) it would be theft.
You know how many people change their email addresses or stop using them in a few years time?
This is stealing, people paid for a product and it was removed from their access. I don't know how much clearer that can be.