Why is Xbox live is important to play online games like fortnite and cod

You mean Gold Subscription...it's a pay service because every service have maintainance/security costs.

Hi! Just a little background info: 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. Therefore it's not like MS is greedy or something
like that but obviously they have to operate profitable in order to stay in business.

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

You will need an XBox Gold membership to play any games online. You can also buy monthly XBox gold cards.

PS also requires their memberships to play online games

Except of Fortnite, reason is that they are rising their console profit selling rate by making fortnite free to play without membership

Then why not xbox can make fortnite free to play without xbox live gold membership

Hi ,

Fortnite is a Free-To-Play game on Microsoft Store . You probably thinking why you need Xbox Live Gold to play it . Well , it may be annoying that your friends are playing it for free , but you have to know that Xbox Live Gold is very important for privacy
. I donțt know why , bu it seems to be real .

Kind regards ,

Xbox Ambassador

A subscription to Xbox Live Gold is required for all online multiplayer.

Without it you can play offline game modes but some games are online only, as Fortnite is.

You will need to buy a subscription to Xbox Live Gold to play online on Fortnite.