Need Xbox Live Membership to play Xbox games on Windows 10 ?

[quote user="Darksyde Oxide"]

I was thinking of purchasing a game on steam but I found out It uses windows live. I am currently only rolling a silver membership on Xbox and was wondering if I could still play this game online using windows live. My question is: Do you need xbox live
to play Windows live games online?

Thanks.

[/quote]

No, an Xbox LIVE Gold membership does nothing for Games for Windows LIVE.

Hi,

Windows 10 games dont require xbox live gold to play. Since Halo Wars 2 will be a play anywhere game, no gold required for windows 10, but if you decide to play on xbox one, you will need xbox live gold.

[quote user="Lactos292"]

Not 100% sure but I think you do not need gold for GFWL.

[/quote]

When Games for Windows Live launched, a Gold Membership was required to play multiplayer games via Matchmaking, but non-matchmaking was fine with an Xbox LIVE Silver (Free) membership.

About four or five years ago, they changed it so a Gold Membership was no longer required/needed for anything to do with Games for Windows Live. A Gold membership does nothing for PC gaming.

Hi

Can you please confirm if you are playing the game on an Xbox console or Windows 10 PC? If you are playing the game on a console then it may be that you do not have an Xbox Live Gold membership as your gamertag from your original message here looks like
you only have a Silver membership.

www.xbox.com/.../gold

Hi!

Windows 10 games don't need to Xbox Live Gold to play online. Ont the other hand, Xbox Live Gold is needed to play online on Xbox.

However, you can't play with each other if you both use the same account, even one is on Windows 10, and the other on Xbox.

edit: Refunds can be requested by logging into https://www.xbox.com/refunds