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LAN and Gamepass

I have Minecraft on my PC and my son started playing recently. Bought an xbox so we can plan play together - him on counsel and me on PC. Apparently after buying the game on each system I now have to sign up for one (maybe two?) GamePass so I can sit 5 feet away from him to play across LAN?

That is insane. It may be a better/cheaper to return the xbox and get him a PC with a controller. Multiplayer LAN should not be behind the Gamepass paywall. 

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    LAN isn't locked behind gamepass. The only connection between Xbox Game Pass and Minecraft is that game pass gives you access to the game.

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    We are experiencing this same issue with both of my sons consoles attempting to play over LAN as soon as we try and join the LAN world we hit a Microsoft paywall and after reading discussion on Reddit this doesn't appear to be an isolated case.