Why do I need to buy gamepass after buying the disc for minecraft

You'll need to either buy it or re-up Gamepass because its basically like a game rental/streaming service. You pay for the subscription and you get to download and play ALL the games until it expires, when it does you'll need to re-up it or buy the game
you wanted. Since the newest version of Minecraft is on Gamepass you'll probably need to buy it if you don't want Gamepass again.

The version just called "Minecraft" is probably the one you want, do not buy the version called "Minecraft Xbox One Edition" unless that was the version you were playing. The one with "Xbox One Edition" in the title is the
older version, the one just called Minecraft is the Windows 10/Bedrock version that is updated frequently.

Ummm that only applies to xbox games he is talking about PC

NO you don't need gold or gamepass HOWEVER if you want to play it but not buy then gamepass is needed

And you can buy it at a discount with gamepass to keep it otherwise you can't play it after gamepass expires

Now if you buy it separately no gamepass isn't needed

Oh I see the response. Bummer smh I really hope they put back on gamepass I dont want to buy a second disc smh Xbox need make it so once you buy the game disc and download it you dont need have disc in system to play. We have 3 systems I shouldn't have
to buy 3 of the same game.

I cancled my gamepass subscription, now i cannot play the games i own, any game that was on gamepass (IE: Minecraft, skyrim, halo MCC, fallout 76) will no longer work on my xbox EVEN if i have the physical disc inside the xbox, i have 100% confirmed the disc work and i have confirmed my disc drive 100% works, everytime i click on it, it tells me i dont own the game and i to need to buy it... i just want to play the video games i paid for

Thank you for your help. I have fixed it thanks to the article you send