I'm a lifelong Windows user but I've never signed in with a Microsoft Account or made any Store purchases, so please bear with me.
My child has got into playing the copy of Minecraft that magically appeared on my Windows 10 laptop, and I am considering paying for the full version.
I'm pretty confused about the relationship between the purchased game and Microsoft Accounts / Microsoft Store / Minecraft User profiles.
If I register a Microsoft account for myself and log into the Store app with that then buy Minecraft, will my child then need to be logged in as me in order to play it? Would it be possible for me to set up some parental restrictions in that scenario? Or is it expected that the child has a Microsoft account of their own, and would the original purchase then have to be through that account?
Best Answer
You may have an easier time buying the Java Edition and creating an account there. Your question wasn't too clear on whether or not you two share a laptop or necessarily want to share an account, but in either case it's pretty simple to make an account for both of you here.
In this case you create a Mojang account and it's completely independent of a Microsoft account (as your comments mentioned you'd like to avoid).
This takes Microsoft out of the equation entirely but it doesn't allow for you to create a "child" account necessarily or create parental controls. But in this case you just set up an account and you're ready to roll.
Plus the Java edition has the added bonus of much more customization compared to the Windows edition (which charges for things you can get and do for free in the Java edition).