Why do we need to buy xbox live gold

Unfortunately it comes with gaming online now. PlayStation also has PS Pro. You can play digital purchases on your Home Xbox offline, and play discs offline, but for online MP services and for achievements to pop etc, you do need XBL.

Nowadays, it works like this on every console. One of the main reasons is to keep the servers and the entire infrastructure working. If people only want games there's gamepass exactly for that reason.

Hi,

I know it could be expensive for the one who didnt play a lot online, but servers / IT cost a lot to get a good service...

Remember the time when Sony and Nintendo was free, online was also a not really good experience due to many outage and co...

Regards

Hi Gerard,

Thanks for bring the question to the forums. Xbox Live is one of the most reliable gaming networks available and in order to achieve that you have to pay for servers and engineers who optimize them/keep them running.
With free games with gold you earn that money back and then some due to able to get up to 40 free games a year.

Microsoft Rewards are a great way to earn Xbox Live Gold and other things without having to spend money by using Bing and other little tasks:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/rewards

For example when any game purchased you earn 4-6000 points, searching on Bing can earn 500 a day. A 25$ USD digital gift card is 25,000 points. Also, promotions are run frequently where they reduce the points needed for rewards. They also have
subscriptions you can get with the reward points.



As there have been many questions concerning this issue I will be locking this thread.

Hope this helps.





Thanks,

Brad

Hello, pretty much all consoles work this way. You need to have an online subscription to play about 90% of the games. With XBox though you do get free games monthly with subscription and I think that makes it even more worth it.