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Zkuq on 15 June 2017
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Barkley said:
Zkuq said:

XBL subscriptions are Only on Xbox. OK, that's just speculation. However... You don't need one on PC either, so it would be strange if it was required on other platforms. Also, it would be even stranger if Nintendo allowed this on top of their own subscription.

They'd have to make it free on Xbox One also though.

It would be horrible if you could play minecraft on xbox live for free on Nintendo Switch, but if you own an Xbox One you need gold.

I believe we've had the discussion about 'subscription-parity' before. Anyway, since it's already free on PC and changing that is practically impossible thanks to Steam, the only remaining option is to make it free on Xbox, just like you said. Considering how many Gold users (most of them probably quite happy) there are and how much money MS is making from them, do you think MS is going to do anything about it? Of course not. The lesser evil is to simply combine free and paid members into one userbase.

Personally, I loathe paid multiplayer when it's clearly not required for operating the online infrastructure. But people keep paying for it happily, so the companies keep charging for it.