Issue still persists after a week. I have logged in and out of Steam and any Xbox related apps or websites. Linked my accounts on ageofempires.com and tried to unlink/link other AOE titles without success.
To the best of my knowledge perhaps some old insider build license is preventing the 1.0 release build/license to link?
Same issues here. Never installed any of the betas, and clean Windows 11 install from about a week ago. Also use the same MS/Xbox account to login to my PC. Don’t see any friends in game at all (Steam or Xbox), no achievement tracking in the Xbox app etc.
Very weird that there hasn’t been a peep from MS in almost two weeks about this considering how aggressively they tried to get people to link their Xbox accounts to the Steam version of AoE2:DE.