Why Microsoft banned Iran from minecraft?

Anonymous
2024-04-25T19:57:35+00:00

Hi Microsoft I'm player Soganddh from minecraft. I live in Iran and I bought minecraft last month. I was playing minecraft well until yesterday I wanted to enter minecraft but it gives me an eror and said this app or game isn't available in your country. I entered minecraft with vpn and it worked but it's annoys me because my vpn is so bad and it tooked me 15 times to connect. I gust wanted to ask why you banned Iran from minecraft? What does me or any other player did which you banned our country from minecraft? Can you fix it please? Minecraft it's the only game I really love. If you do this I'll be thankful 🙏

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2024-04-26T10:48:49+00:00

Hello Soganddh Dh

Welcome to the Microsoft Community.

Regarding Minecraft availability issues in Iran, this is often a result of compliance with international laws and sanctions. Microsoft and other technology companies are sometimes required to restrict the use of their software and services in certain countries under U.S. government laws and regulations. This is not an action against individual players or countries, but rather a legal requirement that companies must follow.

I understand this can be very frustrating for you, especially when a game you love is suddenly inaccessible.

I also hope that this situation can be improved and that you can continue to enjoy Minecraft.

Thank you for your understanding and support

If you have any other questions or need help, please feel free to let me know. 🙏

If there is anything not clear or I can't understand your problem, please do not hesitate to let me know.

Best Regards

Patch - MSFT | Microsoft Community Support Specialist

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-05-08T19:49:00+00:00

    Because of politics, both you and we should suffer. OK, I bought an account, I paid for what? so that i can play But I think you violated your own rules, or maybe I should say you stole us

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-05-16T17:43:05+00:00

    I also have the problem

    I was going to buy minecraft but I'm not sure if I can even play it if I pay for it, and that makes me to not buy the game. They are unfortunetly violating our rights as humans.

    I hope this problem ends faster. :(

    We aren't politicians, we're just some gamers who want to play. 💔

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-06-03T17:11:03+00:00

    We paid for this game and now you have banned it in our country, now what should we do and who will compensate the money we paid? It is like someone buys a car and after some time they say that this car is not supported in your country. When you sell something, you must have support for that product after purchase. For many people in Iran, having this game and paying for it in dollars is a very difficult task, and this amount of money may be a small amount of money for many countries, but in Iran, this money has a high value, and people have a lot of difficulties for this money. have drawn I request you to lift the embargo on this country.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-07-17T09:22:17+00:00

    i want to ask a single goddamn question
    what. did we. do. to. deserve this?
    did we do a sin or a crime before to be born in one of the worst countries ever?
    living in iran is one of the worst suffers ever (if it even is considered *living*) like first of all, USD has a very high price for us. so most of us don't have a gaming pc or something. hell my own pc has 8 gb ram and a core 2 2.66 GHz cpu. so my pc can't handle like 90% of any game without lag
    minecraft is not one of them however. so knowing how hard it is to buy anything using USD in iran, my sister who lives in scotland, bought minecraft as my last year birthday gift. and it hasn't been like even 1 year since then, that you, and whoever had this damn idea took one of the only games that i liked and my pc could handle. why? just because of one thing, the thing that had nothing to do with us, the person that causes almost every suffering in iran. the iran government and especially, the iran leader. like WHAT'S THE REASON IF NOT BECAUSE OF THEM??? what did we do??? we're just some gamers with some of the lowest accessibility possible. but we're still like every 212 million other gamers in the us. we didn't do anything, none of you moderators that are probably even gonna ignore my reply know what it feels like, to be in an outcast, third world country. having most of the other powerful countries hate yours, just because you were unlucky, just because you were born here even though you didn't deserve it. please this is the only thing i have ever asked from anyone outside of persian people. this is probably the longest english thing i have ever wrote, we didn't want to be born here, we didn't deserve it, we didn't like it, but you are making this even worse... one of the only games i can play with my pc, and one of the only 2 things i have ever asked from my sister (the other is 5 dollars for among us) is this. i... don't know why you're doing it but please don't take this, away from us. i'm sure not only for me, but for most of other gamers in iran, this is one of our only sources of joy in this country, taking it away is, one of the most cruel things someone could ever do to a persian gamer.

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