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MCPE-220151

"Multiplayer disabled" blocks accessing local worlds and settings

Steps to reproduce the issue

On Xbox Series X, having already been logged in with an existing profile:

  • without a gamepass subscription and

  • with Account Communication & multiplayer setting “You can join multiplayer games” set to allow

Press “Play” button from main screen, opening “Worlds” tab

Expected result

Ability to select a local world I own/created and play single-player

Ability to edit all settings for a world, including Multiplayer settings

Actual result

With the exception of a few old worlds with what I presume to be a cloud download icon, every one of my local worlds is disabled with a red banner saying “Multiplayer disabled”. Trying to play opens a popup “You cannot access multplayer worlds because multiplayer is disabled. Go to Learn more to troubleshoot.” Opening “Learn more” takes me to a gamepass purchase screen.

When editing settings for a world, the General tab has a banner alert “You have disabled multiplayer in Xbox account settings. Learn more”. This also takes me to the same gamepass purchase screen. I have no idea if I had “Multiplayer game” toggled on from settings, but I am unable to edit the setting to toggle off as the entire Multiplayer tab is disabled as well.

This is my first time seeing the new UI for the Play screen so I don’t know how long this has been an issue, but all of these worked fine a month ago without gamepass. Whether or not this is the intended user experience, this effectively bricks the game for me.

Linked issues

Comments 1

This issue is being tracked at MCPE-217495.

Austin

(Unassigned)

Unconfirmed

Xbox

10.0.26100.4026 (xb_flt_2504ge.250423-1700)

1.21.81 Hotfix

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