Multiplayer Minecraft not working because of Microsoft Account Setup even though the setup...

Hi, I hope you're doing great out there. I am an Independent advisor and I am here to help you in regard to your concern.

If your account and privacy settings are setup correctly this may mean that you don’t have an active Xbox Live Gold subscription which is required to play a paid online multiplayer game such as Minecraft.

Can you please check what subscription you have? It’s either Xbox Live Gold subscription or Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and not Game Pass for Console.

“Press the Xbox button on your controller to open the guide, and then select System > Settings > Account > Subscriptions.”

I found a way to work around this issue, in the context of setting my daughter up with an Xbox account for use with Minecraft (on Nintendo).

Steps were:

1. create new Microsoft account

2. in the Minecraft app, on the front page there is a "Sign in" button (bottom left). Sign in with new Microsoft account.

3. Minecraft app then takes you temporarily to a webpage that invites you to setup an Xbox account gamertag.

Once i did this, my daughter had a working Xbox live account, and she could go and add friends, configure the various settings for multiplayer etc.

Hope this helps someone.

Cheers,

mjb

These are children enrolled/managed by my parent account. Their tablets are setup to use their Microsoft account in Minecraft but are unable to add friends.

When I log in to xbox I can only see one gamertag under my profile (Simon) which was setup for another child. I can't see the one my son, Joe, has (he has a microsoft account setup under me as part of family). How do I get to see this one and change the
settings in xbox to allow Joe to add friends?

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