Bought game on Work/School account, can't link to personal account.

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  1. KeveyBro
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    Bought game on Work/School account, can't link to personal account.


    I bought a game using the microsoft account that my school provided me, but now I'm out of school, so I have set up a personal account. I will lose access to the school account at the end of the year, and since transferring the purchase to my personal account is not possible, and creating a alisas is not possible, I'm not too sure what to do. Is there a way to link the game to my personal account so that if my school account is deactivated I will not lose the game/my progress?

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    KeveyBro, Nov 6, 2021
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  2. Onyx Is Here Win User

    Bought game on Work/School account, can't link to personal account.

    Sorry to hear it. I'm afraid that in this case you're pretty much stuck between a rock and a hard place. You would need to repurchase the game on your proper account and start from the beginning again.

    I'm sorry but there is no way to transfer the game and you will lose access to it once your account at the school has been deactivated.
  3. Nina Jibo1 Win User

    Minecraft on new gaming PC is not installing, as required login to Microsoft store only works with business account

    We understand that the two accounts can not be linked. My son has set up the PC with his personal Microsoft account. But I have bought the game through Mojaang via my personal Microsoft account. It is however asking us to log into the store with a business or school account. I was hoping to link Minecraft with my business account instead of my personal account and make it work that way around.
  4. King Chizzy Win User

    If I purchase a game on my PC via the Xbox App, can any xbox account play the game that was purchased, or only the account that bought it?

    When I tried signing in it said I can't use a personal account and to use a work or school account. Is there any way to bypass this?
  5. DanielMcCormack1 Win User

    Duplicate Microsoft accounts

    Is it possible to change a School or Work account into a personal account please?
  6. SaturdaySaints Win User

    Recover old gamertag that may be disassociated with email

    I know it's unrelated, but allow me to slightly correct you since i do work as an IT admin;

    "work or school" accounts and "personal" accounts don't always follow that rule. I had many instances where "personal account" for the corporation was the one that worked for the login. What would happen is that the user would login from home on a VPN or
    sometimes a mobile device on the account, and they would get disconnected temporarily from the network and try to sign back in. The account would still try to sync, and then incidentally create the "work or school" account.

    In my case, i NEVER logged into a VPN EVER under that email address. it was an aim.com email address. You kinda can't do that.

    I did find out however that the account wasn't linked to that address after all. BUT a hacker did try to compromise the account tied to that email in the past, and that's what leads me to believe why two accounts (work or school/personal) got created under
    that email. I know this because that's the email/account i ran the recovery form on, and i had forgotten all about it, and it brought back old memories of frustration seeing that hacker's gamertag on my old account.
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