Do I have to pay EA the $5 / month to play Battlefield 1 online?

Hi @u2jimbo,

the TSNP DLC is an extension and belongs to the multiplayer. It has nothing to do with the single player. To play multiplayer, you'll need an XBox Gold membership. You didn't need EA Access or Origin Access to play the multiplayer just XBox Gold. Just buy XBox Gold and have fun😉 

/safer

@u2jimboYou only need xbox members to play online games,I wish you a happy game🙂

Assassinatorgrz:

Thanks for responding to my post.  I have gotten an Xbox Gold account and am up and running.  I was stumped for a little while cause after getting Xbox Gold I was still seeing a message that online access was not available, but finally, after running through all my set-up configurations for my Xbox, I found that by going into the game, choosing the multiplayer content (and still seeing the 'denied' message) I could press the 'x' key and the game would try to reconnect to the Battlefield 1 servers.  Once I did, it started right up and I was off and running.  Such a simple solution that, had I known about it, it would have saved me a few hours of tinkering instead of playing...

Just saying EA - offer amateur gamers like me more in-game instructions on how to solve 'simple' issues like this.  It is hard to search the internet through Xbox!

Hey @u2jimbo,

glad to see you're up and running now - just in case you should run into any issues (which hopefully won't happen), you know where to look for advice.

See you on the Battlefield!

Im experiencing a different problem. I bought the Xbox 1 bundle back which came with a free one month subscription to battlefield 1, my subscription has run out and I cannot launch my game, I keep getting a error code telling me I need to manage my subscriptions and I know my Xbox Gold is covered. Do I have to subscribe to play?

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@BoneMarrow99 wrote:

Im experiencing a different problem. I bought the Xbox 1 bundle back which came with a free one month subscription to battlefield 1, my subscription has run out and I cannot launch my game, I keep getting a error code telling me I need to manage my subscriptions and I know my Xbox Gold is covered. Do I have to subscribe to play?

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It could be that it came with EA Access. You will need to subscribe to EA Access to continue playing Battlefield 1. You can subscribe to it for a year and it would only cost you $30, instead of $5 per month.

Hey @BoneMarrow99,

to add to the above: There's two different subscriptions that may come into play here:

1. EA Access.

You can get an EA Access subscription which allows you to play the games in the EA Access Vault - which includes the Battlefield 1 base game - without having to purchase it, dor the duration of your subscription.

2. Xbox Live Gold

You need an active Xbox Live Gold membership in order to be able to play the multiplayer online portion of most of the games, this is charged by Microsoft.

So you would need either

- Battlefield 1 game + Active Xbox Live Gold membership

- EA Access subscription + Active Xbox Live Gold membership

I have XBox Live Gold and I'm still getting the error message that I'm not eligible to play multiplayer.  Any other settings I need to change?  

I've read through this thread and searched EA help for answers. But I'm not finding help with playing BF5 on xbox.

We have Xbox Live Gold, bought BF5 disc, and have an EA account profile. However, when trying to play the game, it stalls at EA log in and simply says, "We cannot complete this action at this time."

I'm assuming that we don't have to pay EA, since we have the game. But, given that we have Xbox Live Gold and an EA profile, I don't understand why it won't let us play, or get past the EA logon! HELP!

Jack