Can a family share the same xbox live account?

Hiya!

Paul from the Xbox Forums Team here to answer your question. If you would like to have members of your family have their own login and avatars then the only thing to do would be to have each member create their own Microsoft account. If you want to share
some of the games on the account you could do so if you had to Xbox One Consoles. Here is a link on

how to set up home console. I hope this answered your question.

Happy Gaming!

Paul Xbox Forums Team!

In order to have their own logins and own avatars, each person would have to have their own account.

It is also a violation of the code of conduct to share accounts. It can basically become an issue if one of the people using the account does something wrong and causes an account ban. Then everyone loses everything.

I agree that there is room for improvement in the current family sharing system. My Idea would be a true "Home" sharing setup, where all Xboxes on the same home network could share 1 gold account. They could even limit that to maybe 1 gold account can
share with up to 4 Xboxes on the same local network. That would solve most family account issues, and still be controlled enough to limit the abuse of the program.

The other way they could handle it would be similar to how Microsoft runs Office 365. With my 365 account I can have up to 5 running instances of Office at once, and I can designate family members to share my 365 account with. If Live Gold used that same
system, then you could add your family to the account the same way. 365 is $99 a year, where Live Gold is $60, so maybe up the "family shared" version of Live Gold to $99 a year, where a single use account is still $60?

I would also like a Microsoft "Super" account that would give me Office 365, Xbox Gamepass, and Live Gold under one Subscription...

Hi!

It can not be done, sharing is done by changing the home xbox for each account. Two family accounts can share the same content, but more, no.

It's obvious that you can probably subscribe to family subscriptions which allow for sharing within the family zone on the same console if you all want to go on Xbox Live. Anyone who is not on the family sub will be classed as an outsider and won't be able
to play your games. The alternative is likely that like you can with Xbox 360 is create multiple offline accounts tied to the console for other family members who can share all the primary account holder's games offline and get their own achievements etc.