Friend interaction problems in GTA 5

I’m also having the same exact issue. I have the full game and my friend has GTA: Online. We’re both on xbox and both have Live. But it directs him to buy the game when I send him an invite.

Hello savage19091,

Welcome to Xbox Community Forum. We appreciate for sharing your concern with us and we hope that you are doing well today.

We understand that you are trying to use the GTA online game system to join with friends and is unable to because you are getting an error prompting you to buy the game again and redirecting you to Microsoft Store. Let’s us check on this together and sort this out. Rest assured, we will do anything in our capability to assist you with your concern and help you back to gaming!

As per your description you can join multiplayer with friends in other games, but with GTA online you cannot. It also happen the same using your parent's account and to your friend who bought on the same time with you.

We would like to know more about it in details so that we can provide a more accurate resolution for you.

To start, please provide us information/answer on the following questions:

►Have you tried uninstalling the game and install lit again?

►Can you please check your Xbox network and may we know the NAT type?

You may also refer to this support Articles :

►Troubleshoot NAT errors and multiplayer game issues | Xbox Support

►Start a party on your Xbox console | Xbox Support



Should you have other clarifications about this matter, you can get back to us by replying to this post.

 We are looking forward to your response.

Have a great day ahead.

Sincerely,



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I am still having problems with being able to join and invite friends on GTA Online. It still forces you to try to buy it even though you already own it.

I have this same issue, I am playing GTA 5 online and can join other random players but joining friends it prompts each of us, joining each other's game, to the Microsoft store to purchase the game. I own the hard copy and it's the x/s version. My NAT is open, I have uninstalled the game in its totality and reinstalled it with updates and we are still prompted to purchase the games. We have noticed that we have different versions when we open the file info of the games. We don't know how to fix this issue when our consoles do not allow an update or don't show an update available. We have the same game as far as the Microsoft store is concerned. (X/s version) Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello!

I'm an independent advisor and a member of the Xbox Community just like you.

I will be glad to help you.

If your friend is playing on an Xbox S/X Series, make sure he has purchased the Xbox One version of the game and has not purchased the optimized version for his console, as the game does not feature cross-play between Xbox One and Xbox Series, Rockstar implemented separate servers for each version of the game.

If you both have the same version, go to your network settings and check your NAT type, if it is moderate/strict, follow the recommendations in this link to fix it.

https://support.xbox.com/help/hardware-network/...

I hope the information has been clear, I will be attentive to any questions you may have.

Best Regards.