My household has several Xbox Live logins for Minecraft. My wife plays on her laptop, I play on my Desktop, and my Daughter plays on the Xbox One.
According to the Better Together Update, as quoted above, Xbox Live Gold is not needed for local multiplayer. Yet it is. Whenever one of us has started a game on our PC/Laptop, and tries sending an invite to the Xbox player, they are taken to the page to purchase an Xbox Live Gold subscription. They cannot see us online in the friends list, they cannot directly access the game, and when we invite, they are taken to the page to purchase Xbox Live Gold.
However, if the game is started on Xbox, then we (on the PC/Laptop) CAN see the game in our friends tab as a joinable LAN game, and we can pop in and join that way. This is a workaround, but it is not optimal, because we would rather have a family game created on one of the computers.
So there is obviously a bug is some sort, since PC/Laptop CAN join the Xbox One game, but not the other way around without an Xbox Live Gold subscroption.
Joe Russell
This is still a valid issue.
My household has several Xbox Live logins for Minecraft. My wife plays on her laptop, I play on my Desktop, and my Daughter plays on the Xbox One.
According to the Better Together Update, as quoted above, Xbox Live Gold is not needed for local multiplayer. Yet it is.
Whenever one of us has started a game on our PC/Laptop, and tries sending an invite to the Xbox player, they are taken to the page to purchase an Xbox Live Gold subscription. They cannot see us online in the friends list, they cannot directly access the game, and when we invite, they are taken to the page to purchase Xbox Live Gold.
However, if the game is started on Xbox, then we (on the PC/Laptop) CAN see the game in our friends tab as a joinable LAN game, and we can pop in and join that way. This is a workaround, but it is not optimal, because we would rather have a family game created on one of the computers.
So there is obviously a bug is some sort, since PC/Laptop CAN join the Xbox One game, but not the other way around without an Xbox Live Gold subscroption.