Trying really hard not to type all caps.
This is crazy frustrating. All my kid wants to do it play minecraft with his switch friend. Most days, it. just. does. not. work. We don't have this issue with any other game on the switch. Or any other game on any other platform.
This has been happening as long as we have had MC on switch.
NAT is type A. It has worked once in a blue moon. But its pretty frustrating/infuriating for me, the parent, having to sit there over and over trying to connect only to keep getting Cannot connect to world message over and over. Him asking why, and me unable to explain how microsoft and mojang seem to be unable to get this working properly.
Maybe stop marketing from driving your roadmap so much, and fix your game - i see plenty of work going into pushing people to log into a microsoft account.
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