Both my childrens accounts were changed from my XBOX 360 Live Gold account to individual ...

My account is the parent on Family Xbox Gold 360. Both my kids accounts appear to be switched to individual accounts, which isn't OK. I tried your CHAT and only got a answer to buy a one month subscription for each account as a temporary solution at $20.
That's almost half a yearly subscription and is just ridiculous. If this is how you treat customers, then my son just may get that Playstation 4 for his birthday next month instead of a Xbox One. I would appreciate being contacted on this manner and how to
resolve it.

:)

 

2 Xbox ONE consoles in one house. How do I buy games for both consoles and with out buying 2 disk?

I found a workaround that lets my kids use my games on their Xbox, while I can still play the same games on my Xbox, even play Halo 5 Co-op with my kids on their Xbox (1 kid at a time for Halo 5, both kids for Halo 1-4), and me on my Xbox. Note, I have the only Live Gold account in our household. It's not the preferred solution for this (Yo, Microsoft, Family Gold Subscription, please!), however it works very well for 2 Xbox One consoles. Here's what I had to do...

(My Xbox)
1. Settings - Personalization - My home Xbox
- I removed my Live Gold account from "My home Xbox", leaving no account set for this.
2. Settings - Account - Sign-in, security & passkey
- Set my Live Gold account for "Instant sign-in"
3. Settings - Power & Startup - Turn off or restart - Restart now
- Rebooted Xbox for settings to take effect.

(Kids' Xbox)
I have my Gold account and the regular accounts for my wife and kids set up to login.
1. Settings - Personalization - My home Xbox
- Using my Gold account, I selected "Make this my home Xbox"
2. Settings - Account - Sign-in, security & passkey
- I set one of my kids' accounts for "Instant sign-in".
3. Settings - Power & Startup - Turn off or restart - Restart now
- Rebooted Xbox for settings to take effect.

My Xbox now has no account set with "My home Xbox", but since it has my Gold account set for Instant sign-in, it will still automatically have access to the games, movies, and other content. However, it won't automatically install purchased games, but that is easily remedied by accessing "My games & apps" from the Xbox home screen, where I will see newly purchased games under the "Ready to Install" section where I can easily install them.

A Live Gold account can only have one Xbox selected as its "home Xbox", however, on that home Xbox, all other accounts that sign-in will have access to the content purchased by the Gold account. This is what allows my kids to access my Gold account content on their Xbox. In addition to the "home Xbox", any purchases made by a Gold account will follow that account to any "non-home Xbox" where the account is logged-in. Since my account is still set for "Instant sign-in" on my Xbox, my purchases are always available, unless I log out. Other people can still login to my Xbox and use the content I have purchased, as long as my Gold account stays logged in, too. If, for some reason, I login on my Kids' Xbox, it will log me out on my Xbox, but I just log back in when I am done playing with my kids on their Xbox. This let's me play Halo 5 Guardians in Co-op mode with me logged in on my Xbox, and one of my kids logged in on their Xbox, which has access to my Gold account content, because that is my "Home Xbox". So far, I have not encountered any complications with this setup. If I do, I will amend my post here.

Good luck! I still have not found a way to share content across three Xbox consoles simultaneously, however, this does work for two consoles, even if they are not in the same location. I have also been told that some cablemodems and broadband routers may have trouble with two Xbox consoles accessing Xbox Live games simultaneously from the same residence, but I have Comcast Xfinity Internet service using the WiFi gateway they provided (Cisco DPC3941T wireless gateway/router), and I have not had any trouble playing Xbox Live games on both consoles at the same time.

-TSForrest

 

question about digital games without gold

If they are on xbox one and the xbox they are playing on has someone with a live account their accounts have live too.

Also, digital don't require gold, only online. So make sure what you are buying doesn't require online play and they will be fine.

As others noted, you have to buy it on their account unless you are sharing systems with them else it will be locked to you and you can't give digital stuff away from your own account.

All games work without gold except online required games (soley online play) and they will say golds required if you read the small print.

 

The family plan was discontinued back in August. You should have received an email at that time to let you know of the change. As of now every account is individual and if your kids wants to play online on the 360 they will each need their own subscriptions.

 

Bad marketing decision for quick money vs long term customer... for what was a nice feature and cost saving for me, to just throw it away really shows me the direction Xbox is heading with family support and nickle dime crap I already get from cable and
phones. You lost a long term client with this move. Heck, I have an Windows 8 phone and tablet to link it all up. Looks like I'm going back to Android phone, tablet and getting both PS3 & PS4. Overall, the corporation as a whole losses on this one, not just
Xbox.

 

The Xbox One allows you to share gold across the entire console.

Just an FYI but the PS4 requies a subscription and each account would need their own also.

 

PS4 does not require each account to have a subscription, i know my son has the PS4 which i had to setup. One subscription for the entire gaming system.

My family plan expired this June and found out the plan was cancelled. My account auto-renewed but my kids can't access xbox live. I talked to tech support and they said a patch is out to make it so you can link the accounts. The patch should be pushed
to everyone by end of June 2014. I don't play xbox, personally have had one issue after another with it with my kids. So now I'm paying for an xbox live account that I will never use and only have so my kids can play, but they can't play until the patch
is pushed. Gotta love the genius behind this one. Both of my xboxs would be out the window if my kids didn't have friends that still use it.