Minecraft for Windows asks for purchase, but is already owned.

TheLifey · Nov 16, 2021

So recently I tried to get back to Minecraft Windows 10 Edition (Or Minecraft for Windows now). I have achievements on my account that proves I own the game. Installing Minecraft Launcher from the Windows Store and launching it works, i open the launcher and in the Minecraft for Windows page it shows me "launch" instead of "buy". However, when i launch the game, the game acts as if i had not purchased the game.

Launcher knows I own the game:

Game itself doesn't act as owned and requests sign in:

Clicking Sign In only takes me to the Buy Minecraft screen

:)

Ricardo Lechuga

Hi TheLifey! My name is Ricardo an independent advisor ready to help you with this situation!

Look for the game purchase in your order history here

https://account.microsoft.com/billing/orders

If the game isn't there means you haven't purchase it from this account and you need to find the account that purchased the game, having achievements of the game or time played in the game its not a proof of purchase as games can be shared between accounts

If the game does appear on your order history be sure you are logging properly on the launcher with the same email

Athotic-

This is also the case with me. I only have 1 Xbox account which I bought "Minecraft For Windows" on. I have over 56% of the achievements done, I restart my pc log onto Xbox to download it back, and boom it's telling me to buy it again. I also have Minecraft for iOS but I can get that again.

Malc222_678

Hi Janet

We deleted the roaming folder .minecraft and restarted the PC but the result is the same: Minecraft asks us to purchase the game which we already own

thanks

malc

Todd Fingles

I have followed these steps and still face the same problem. It still asks me to purchase the game even though I already own Minecraft Bedrock.

Smwutches

Minecraft for Windows 10 is only for the PC. If you purchased and played on the Xbox, then you own the Xbox version of Minecraft. You would need to purchase Minecraft for Windows 10 in order to play it on the PC.

Minecraft for Windows asks for purchase, but is already owned.