Xbox live gold needs to be free !

You don't need Xbox Live Gold to play online on PC, it's all free, on PS4 You don't need Ps Plus If you're going to play games Free to play, but You need Live Gold If You wanna play online on Xbox One, maybe the only game You don't Live Gold is Smite, at
least It used to be.

Hi there,

in order to download Games with Gold for free, you will need a paid Xbox Live Gold subscription, any free trials will not count as Gold to allow purchasing those Games with Gold games for free

Its free but you need xbox live gold

Hi MamaRoVino,

Xbox Live Gold is the paid subscription for the overall service of Xbox Live. Since you need Xbox Live Gold to play online and access the deals and Free Games with Gold you get every month, "Gold" and "Live" are generally used synonymously. Whatever Free
Game with Gold you downloaded when you first put in the free trial should still be playable with your active paid subscription granted you first claimed the game on the same account you started the trial to the one you are using now to play the games with
the active Gold subscription. Any free game you claimed with the Gold subscription can only be played with an active Gold subscription.

Forza Horizon 4 is a game you get with an active Xbox Game Pass subscription and not an Xbox Live Gold subscription. Forza Horizon 4 was never available as a Free Game with Gold. King's Quest is a free game in general and has always been listed as free so
anyone can get this game for free if they have an Xbox One console with or without an Xbox Live Gold subscription.

Xbox Live Gold basically gives you 3 main things. Multiplayer and chat capabilities with friends or other players over the internet, Deals with Gold, and Free Games with Gold.

Any and all important troubleshooting or console information can be found over at
https://support.xbox.com/en-US/. Simply type in the search bar what you need help with or select the topic that you need help with.

You always need xbox live gold to play online. It says free because you get the battle royale Mode for free. But to play the game you need gold. That is the same thing on other free games too.