Play Offline not working with MSA when servers are offline about polymc HOT 5 CLOSED

I found a workaround for MultiMC that I hope applies here.

Simply completely block MultiMC (Poly in this case) in your firewall
After some thinking MultiMC will prompt for your Offline name then launch

I do not use Poly (I will in future) so I can't validate if this works here

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This issue also arises on filtered network connections. Even when attempting to launch offline, I get an error saying "The account has expired and needs to be logged into manually again." I am able to relogin up until I authorize the program's access, and then I get an error from PolyMC saying "XBox user authentication failed." This is fixed when I use an unfiltered connection, but that's not always available to me. The workaround works until I forget to use it once, and I am no longer able to use the workaround until I can login on an unfiltered connection.

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I found a workaround for MultiMC that I hope applies here.

Thanks for taking your time, to report this here as well :D

It probably works here as well, as there isn't much (if any) difference between Multi and Poly when it comes to authentication

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I found a workaround for MultiMC that I hope applies here.

Thanks for taking your time, to report this here as well :D

It probably works here as well, as there isn't much (if any) difference between Multi and Poly when it comes to authentication

You're welcome, it seems the servers are back up so I wasn't even able to document it all properly 🤷‍♀️
Always next time..

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I'm usure if this is the same issue, but i'm assuming it's got an identical fix.
Clicking play offline on a MS account will not work.
While clicking play or play offline on a offline account works fine.
presumibly this is a mistake and play offline should be behaving the same as an offline account

Glancing at the multimc issue suggests that this happened as an anti-piracy measure.
the thought that someone thinks minecraft piracy could be made easier got a good laugh out of me.

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