My Nintendo switch friends were hosting a while world that excepted Microsoft and Nintendo friends. I wanted to join, but after trying to join, it said disconnected from server. My friends can’t join my either. I’ve tried many times and it doesn’t work.
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I worry that this issue is due to the fact that it is not required to have an Xbox Account when playing Minecraft on Switch. It is apparent that Minecraft's multiplayer system was not designed to handle a multiplayer request from a user without an Xbox account linked. When my under 18 friends got Minecraft for Nintendo Switch, they did not have Xbox accounts at all. I did. When they tried to join me from the "Joinable Nintendo Switch Friends" section, they would get the same message: "Disconnected from Server". When they finally linked an Xbox account (which is, sadly, the only current solution to this problem), they could join me, and I could join them. The difference is, their Worlds showed up in the "Joinable cross-platform friends" section instead of the "Joinable Nintendo Switch Friends" section, despite them playing on Nintendo Switch in the first place. That leads me to the conclusion that the entire "Joinable Nintendo Switch Friends" section of the "Friends" tab is broken due to the inability of Xbox Live to handle a player with no Xbox account.
The process of my Friends setting up a Microsoft, and successively an Xbox account was tedious and confusing. After they made their Microsoft account, they couldn't activate an Xbox account. Solo Xbox accounts under 18 years old are completely restricted from doing certain things simply because they are not part of a "family". This family is meant to allow them to do these restricted things, like going from a Microsoft account to an Xbox account. My Friends had to get their Father to complete the process for them, but without him, they would have been stuck with useless Microsoft accounts until they were 18.
Rant aside (the topic of which I don't expect to be fixed by the Minecraft team), this is the reason why I feel playing Multiplayer Minecraft across Nintendo Switch Systems without needing an Xbox Account is so necessary: to save kids under 18, a large part of Nintendo's audience, from this extreme hassle.
The solution I see fit is a major revamp of the online system that would make this multiplayer feature actually work. In addition, when playing across Nintendo Switch Systems ONLY, allow Switch exclusive content to be unlocked, so people can still enjoy it together, even if it is still restricted to Nintendo Switch.
Hopefully, comments are regarded at a similar level of significance to full posts, because I really wanted to make a new post for this, but why not comment on another perfectly good one. Thanks for reading!
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Something similar happen with me. It doesn't work with my brother on the switch.