I can’t invite a friend to my warzone party with out getting game pass. The game is free to...

Hi, Ryan! It's my pleasure to assist you with this today.

Kindly try to do these steps and check if it will fix the issue. Thanks!

Let's try to enable the QoS tagging on this console.

Please go to Settings and select General > Network settings > Advanced settings > QoS tagging settings

Enable both the DSCP and WMM tagging

Reboot the console

Then press and hold the Power button on the front of your Xbox until the console turns off.

Unplug everything from the back of your Xbox.

Wait 3 minutes, and then plug the power cord and HDMI back in.

Then, please check if that fixes the issue.

If that still didn't fix the issue, let’s try removing and re-adding your profile. This will help synchronize the data and settings smoothly.

To remove your profile

1. Select Settings.

2. Go to Account.

3. Choose Remove accounts.

4. Select your account and remove it.

NOTE: Make sure you know the email address and password for your profile before removing it from the console.

Next, press and hold the Home Button on the controller to restart the console.

To redownload your profile:

1. Press the Xbox button on your controller to open the guide.

2. Select Sign in.

3. Go to Add & Manage.

4. Choose Add New.

5. Enter your Microsoft account email address and password.

Then, check if that resolves the issue. Thanks!

I can’t even invite/join my friends’ parties because I can’t get to the commands that let me do so.

I can join parties and receive party invites just fine. The problem is the game invites. For example, I was trying to play Call of Duty: Warzone through a Looking For Group post. I join the party but then don't receive the game invite and can't invite
them to my game.

It's not.an exception

There is a difference

All platforms have the COD APP

it's important to note warzone shares maps with cod games.

So if you are NOT picking from the warzone playlists you need to buy the full games containing those maps or stick with warzone maps only

Sorry, but I know very well the difference between COD, Warzone, paid content, and free maps.

My friends and I have been playing Warzone for years—always just the free Battle Royale mode—and we’ve never had issues inviting each other or playing together. But something clearly changed about 2 months ago.

Now, anyone using an Xbox can’t invite or join friends at all. Everything related to “playing together” just forces us to a screen asking us to buy Xbox Live. The only way around it is if a friend on PC invites us—then we can join with no problem. So the functionality is still there, just locked unless we pay.

This isn’t about confusing Warzone with the main COD titles—it’s a new restriction added on Xbox that wasn’t there before, and it makes it feel like we’re being forced to pay for something that’s supposed to be free.

I can’t even play Warzone because season 3 and now season 4 is doing the same thing. I should get a refund on my battle pass because I can’t even access the damn game to play it!