Active user

One of the things I dont understand is how the ACTIVE user for games works.

If my son is using a game with his account and I go to my dashboard and then play the game he was playing then the game is still with my sons account.

Is there a specific way of knowing which user is active in the game? Sometimes I press B and then I go back to the active game but with his account.

Is there a way of making sure Im always using my profile?

Thanks to all

:)

 

More people active on Xbox Live or PSN?

Way more people are on PlayStation consoles... but I am willing to bet that there are more active Xbox Live users than PSN users, if only slightly.

 

Xbox Live active monthly users grew 28% in Q1 FY16

Source: http://www.microsoft.com/investor/E...s/PressReleaseAndWebcast/FY16/Q1/default.aspx

Put in more casual writing: It was a pretty good first quarter for Microsoft on the gaming front. The company revealed today that monthly active Xbox Live users increased by 28 percent over the last three months, a huge jump that now puts the active user base at 39 million. Xbox Live gets 28 percent more monthly active users in the first quarter

 

You have a couple of options

If you're using different controllers, then the easiest way would be to assign a profile to the controller:

support.xbox.com/.../assign-controller-profile

To switch profiles, follow these steps:
support.xbox.com/.../switch-profiles

And you can check which profile is signed in, up in the top left corner of the screen. It should be displaying your profile

 

Yes, that is correct and how I use it.

The issue is with the ACTIVE application. If I use my voice to go to my stuff and then run the same game that my kid was using then I continue playing with his user not mine

The same happens if I go to my user and then press B. It goes to the last app but if the last app was running with my sons account then it continues that way. And as far as I was able to see not all games shows you wich user is active.

 

That is a strange one! I guess it would be different from game to game, but you would think that if you are assigned to the controller, and signed in, then providing you are using that controller you would remain signed in no matter what game or application
you were using.

Quitting out of the app or game should prevent the 'pushing b' issue, so when he is done with the game, highlight the tile, hit the menu button, then select 'quit game'. That should prevent you accidently hitting b and going back into it. I do this for all
games, I never leave them running in the background, is just a personal habit

You have me stumped sorry, hopefully someone else may be able to give you some further tips