What you do need to bear in mind though, is that to play online, you'll need to check the boxes for your platform of choice. That's down to each platform dictating its own online play requirements that you'll need to adhere to.

If you want to play Minecraft multiplayer on any of those other devices, for example all you need to do is sign in to your Xbox Live account, and you're good to go there's no Xbox Live Gold membership needed. However, Xbox Live is cross platform, allowing you to play Xbox titles on other platforms, like Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS, and Windows 10. If you plan on playing multiplayer games on your Xbox console, then you most definitely need an upgrade to Xbox Live Gold. Replacing the current Xbox Live Gold pricing, Xbox Game Pass Core will cost $10.95 AUD per month or $79.95 for a prepaid yearly subscription.With Xbox Live, you can download games, apps, music, films, TV shows, and anything else that's available that takes your fancy. Xbox Game Pass core combines the online multiplayer benefits of Xbox Live Gold with some components of the Xbox Game Pass and Game Pass Ultimate tiers, including Game Pass member deals and discounts and a smaller, less regularly updated library of games for members to download and play for as long as they have an active subscription. Meanwhile, Games With Gold will cease to be offered starting on September 1.

Starting on September 14 (potentially September 15 in AEST), Gold subscribers will find themselves moved across to the new subscription – which will cost exactly the same as Gold does now – and benefit from an entry-level version of the Xbox Game Pass library. Xbox has announced plans to phase out its Xbox Live Gold subscription offering in favour of a brand-new tier of Xbox Game Pass dubbed Xbox Game Pass Core.

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