Hello,

You are receiving this notice because you at one point had submitted the participation form to be part of the class action lawsuit against Mojang, the developers of the game Minecraft.

Based on the answers that you had provided, you do not meet the participation criteria to be able to take part in the first class action lawsuit defined as such:

If you believe that this is a mistake and that you DO fulfill these requirements, you can still get in. The segmentation was done by a script based on the data you submitted, so if that data was entered incorrectly or the script failed in some way, your result will be wrong. The following page shows the result of the segmentation script for your entry and the reasoning behind it, so you can see exactly why you were sorted out:

If the above applies to you, joining is still possible: we've included the email sent out to the users that did meet the criteria, which is available here:

Simply follow its instructions and contents for what to email to the court prior to the 25th of September, and you will take part in the class action lawsuit just like everyone else who met the criteria.

As for what happens now if you didn't meet the participation criteria.

A few of you will have been reading the updates that have been consistently sent out through both GoFundMe and the lawsuit's discord channel (links available here: http://lawsuit.gg/), all of which explain everything in great detail.
If you want to read the english translation of the filings, they are available here: https://lawsuit.gg/documents/english-translation-2026-06-29.pdf

The gist of it is that the legal scene is obscenely complicated, where we want to achieve as much as humanly possible within a single class action lawsuit.

One of the primary claims is data processing & handling violations, which is particularly tied to the GDPR which is a EU&EEA regulation that doesn't apply anywhere else. If we were to try to go with a GDPR claim while having non EU/EEA participants, Mojang's lawyers would try to get it dismissed on the basis that those laws and regulations do not apply to a portion of the group which means it doesn't comply with the group conformity requirements for the class action lawsuit to proceed.

This is actually something that Mojang's lawyers are actively trying to do as we speak (the lawsuit is already in court under case number T 5478-26), where they want the class action lawsuit to be dismissed on the ground that it doesn't fulfill the requirements for a valid class action lawsuit.

Since we knew they were going to try to get it dismissed on whatever technicality / mental gymnastic they could find, we had to tighten the requirements as much as humanly possible in order for them to simply not be able to do that.

The EU/EEA residence requirement is obvious as per the GDPR claim.
The under 18 years at the time of purchase is important due to laws demanding companies act with special consideration if their customers are known to be underage, particularly when it comes to topics like transparency, data processing and so on.
The buying Minecraft before the 10th of December 2013 was specifically chosen because back then the privacy policy was "We process your data solely for the purpose of providing the game". There's no room for interpretation here for anything "marketing", third party access, Microsoft being involved and so on; you simply cannot fight the wording.

It's a lot more complex than the summary given above, feel free to read through the announcements if you wish to see the details between each; but the most obvious question that arises for you who didn't qualify is: Did I submit for nothing? / I don't qualify, so I won't see the benefits of the class action?

The immediate thought is that the outcome of this class action lawsuit will only affect users that bought the game before the 10th of December 2013 within the EU/EEA.

This is an interesting point because it is "technically" correct in a legal sense. Mojang will only be obligated to apply the remedies we seek to the users that met the criteria, so they THEORETICALLY don't have to "LEGALLY" apply them to anyone else.
The problem for Mojang is that if they don't apply it to everyone, we'll just sue them again under different criteria and grounds until cooperation improves, under a reduced scope that's easier to pursue than the plethora of points we're going for in this "first" class action lawsuit. This is beyond the fact that maintining two systems at the same time under differnt legal circumstances being administratively difficult for them (like the pre 2013 group being "immune" to chat reporting, data processing beyond offering the game etc).

So in other words it's either Mojang is smart enough to know we'll keep going if they don't cooperate beyond their legal obligations which just means further loss for them, or they cooperate and everyone gets the benefits; meaning we don't have to legally go after them anymore.

While it's understandable that they would be on the absolute defensive since they didn't lose anything just yet, I do believe they are smart enough to know what's best for them financially.

Due to all of the above, the answer to "Did I submit for nothing?" is no since we'll need the participants for further legal action if Mojang chooses not to be cooperative once this first one concludes, at which point you would be a candidate for further legal action against them.

It is also entirely plausible/possible that further legal action against Mojang is launched in parallel in other countries as the first one is happening.

Of course, if there's any questions; by all means reach out, I read everything: https://lawsuit.gg/contact/