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It establishes a universal account requirement that applies across all versions of the game.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is a single clause fragment without temporal or conditional context. Based on clause 25226, this requirement is tied to the future deprecation of Mojang accounts, but that context is not present in this excerpt and cannot be incorporated into the canonical claim.
Players cannot access any version of Minecraft without a Microsoft account.
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It establishes a universal account requirement that applies across all versions of the game.
Players cannot access any version of Minecraft without a Microsoft account.
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