Help with joining my friends game

Update: Microsoft's Minecraft support team didn't help much. To test this out, my and my friend set up a public mini game server, with my friend making a public Battle server. I joined from the "Join" tab, and it came up with the annoying "The connection to the server was lost. Exiting to main menu" error. My friend then disabled the option "Public Game." Then, if you join from the "Friends" tab it works just fine,

This might help it worked for my friend trying to join BF4 games. http://youtu.be/jolwf0MjKis

once you are past a certain point in the game you will see invite party when you pause the game. your friend has to be in a party with you.

[quote user="THE IMMORTAL D"]

once you are past a certain point in the game you will see invite party when you pause the game. your friend has to be in a party with you.

[/quote]I see you didn't read the OP at all

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Anyway, my friend was on the fence about which console to get first, the X1 or PS4. After much convincing, He finally gets the X1 and a copy of Dead Rising 3, which I talked him in to buying so we could play co-op, and we can't play co-op. What a load of
horse crap. Can anyone even comprehend how much of an enormous jackass I look like after convincing a person to spend the hard earned money they had been saving for months on a broken piece of crap?

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Here this guy is throwing stuff against the wall, screaming that he knew he should have got a PS4. And how I can I tell him he's wrong? What leg do I have to stand on? Without me, he would be gaming right now on a PS4. Instead he spent $500, all his money,
on a Netflix One. This console has been plagued with problems since day 1. And since day 1 I have been defending it with every breath. But that's becoming increasingly hard to do when Microsoft keeps pissing in my face while giving me the finger and laughing.

The party/game invite system is pretty broken right now. Hopefully it will be fixed with the software update that is supposed to be coming after the first of the year.