Can my child share my Ultimate subscription?

Rachel PXJ · Jun 21, 2023

I have the adult account on the xbox and my son has a child's account. If I subscribe to Xbox games pass Ultimate will he also be able to play unlimited (age appropriate) games or would he need his own subscription?

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Tezzarrific

the ea games also work as my kids use it to play them.

ngocphi

He.doesn't need.to.as hw can play any game available for.his cinsole

However if he tries and play ea or Ubisoft games or Cloud games those are subscriber perks only

ArminatorX

As others noted, your children need an active Gold membership subscription to be able to play online multiplayer (other than free to play titles like Apex or Fortnite).

Since you say the child can play online multiplayer when you are signed in on that console, I assume your own account has an active Gold or Game Pass ULTIMATE subscription.

In order to save some costs, you can do the following:

Give one child (let's call it Child A) a gold membership subscription or a Game Pass ULTIMATE subscription (a "regular" Game Pass subscription won't do it).

Now Child A goes to the console of Child B and sets that console as their own Home Console in the settings of the Child B console.

Now the Child B console shares the Gold membership subscription with ANYONE playing on that Child B console.

As Child A is the owner of the Gold subscription, they in turn can go to ANY CONSOLE and their Gold subscription goes with them.

So Child B can play Minecraft online Multiplayer thanks to the shared Gold subscription on the B-console, and Child A can play on their own console (or any other console) thanks to the Gold membership on their Child A account.

If you yourself don't play online multiplayer, you can then cancel the Gold subscription on your own account, and the kids can play with their own accounts.

SqueezinKitties

Why doesn't family sharing work on PC with my Ultimate subscription? My son can use our family Ultimate on his Xbox but not on PC.

bains1000

Hi

Thanks for the prompt responses. So are you all saying I can't share my xbox Gold with two child accounts, but i can with one child account. This is how it has been working but I want to limit screen time for my kids and this is why I setup a second Child
account.

Could I move my gold subscription to one of the child accounts and share it this way?

I really don't want to purchase a second gold subscription.

Can my child share my Ultimate subscription?