Being Forced to update Minecraft.

Check for updates frequently to avoid them being forced at inopportune times.

I have the disc...problem being the forced day one update fails to install

I can log into minecraft either after being forced to migrate to microsoft. It says i dont own the game that i paid for years ago. This is pathetic and unacceptable!

My family had the same issue this afternoon after we updated our kid's xbox - minecraft. We went to load a map after the update and it gave us "Connection to server was lost, exiting to main menu". However on a create new level it worked just fine.

Fix.

Had to start minecraft so it would recognize that the game was not trialware, pull the internet to force the play offline option to appear when starting the level and the level loaded. Had to pull the cable as the "Play Offline" option was greyed out.

Split screen also worked after that as well as it was also displaying some junk about the profile could not play with multi-player. I suspect this is due to the playoffline feature being messed up

I really feel that game companies fail to properly test these updates, and force us to be beta testers.

Hotmail is being updated/phased out to Outlook. I can't say for sure, but this may be part of the problem.

Manually opt to update your email to Outlook before a forced update, and maybe that will clear the issue.