I bought Minecraft for gift. Now it can't install from PlayStore without paying. How can I...

Hello Rachael,

We would like to confirm that your son is attempting to play Minecraft on a tablet and are experiencing an issue concerning an error that appears trying to identify the licensing of the game.

Minecraft on a tablet will involve the Google Playstore and not the Microsoft store, is the Google Playstore the location that you are installing Minecraft from?

Does this tablet by any chance also double as a laptop/PC?

Clarify these questions so that we can further assist.

Best wishes!

update: I have successfully installed Skyrim onto my hard drive without my xbox crashing, yay! I'm trying Minecraft now, but it keeps restarting on me, so it's not giving me a chance at all. I bought this xbox in gamestop too. Lamesauce. Can't play minecraft
because it crashes, but I can play skyrim...

You need to buy the game digitally on her account or gift her the game. You can't be signed in simultaneously on the same account unless you're on PC. I'm surprised the store even let you buy the game again it usually shows as owned.

I think I bought it on my account profile

How do I gift her the game , without paying again for it ? I don't I'll ever play it myself anyway

TIA, Sven

try bluestacks and install the xbox app from the playstore and you can stream again, also works on my android phone so i use android on my win10 pc. not perfect, but it works.

No i didnt have xbox gamepass before, but like i said i purchased it and installed it directly from the playstore. This allowed me to play bedrock on pc as well, but then again, not java. So just to clarify, does this mean that if i purchased the mobile version, i can only play bedrock on the pc? not java included?

oh and just to add, not only can i play bedrock, i can also play other games as well that arent meant to be for free. These games are minecraft dungeons and minecraft legends. All these games i can play, EXCEPT for java.