Originally Posted by
Derio
No, you need Xbox Live to play any online game.
An example is the F2P MMO DCUO.
DCUO is currently cross-platform with PC and PS4. They wanted to do cross-platform with Xbox, however, due to live restrictions, the deal ended up being Xbox players getting the game but exclusively on their own server separate from PS and PC.
PS+ is not required to play DCUO.
So in the scenario above, we would see Xbox getting their own server to play and Yoshi said 2 years ago they were not doing that. Have things changed? If so they were not in the article