Can two profiles have access to a game downloaded on one console

You can play one game on two xboxs. The best way to do it would be to have his console set as your Home console. Download the game on the console, and now he has access to the game. Now go to the other console and download your profile and redownload the
game. Now he can play the game on the first console while you are playing the game on the other.

[quote user="dottie2412"]Hi, My grandsons both got xbox 360 for xmas and they are in the same house, can I download the same game to both xbox or do I need to pay for the same game twice? I have a xbox live gold family and I have my profile on both consoles.[/quote]

Xbox licensing works two ways: if your profile buys a game or DLC (DownLoadable Content, like a map pack add-on for a game), you can access that content on any Xbox 360 console that is connected to Xbox Live, and on the first console you download it
on any profile can access it. The latter is usually called the "console license" or "offline license", because the console and profile do not have to be connected to Xbox Live to access the game.

Your situation is a little more complicated because there are at least three profiles involved: yours, and one for each of your grandsons (I'm assuming). If your profile buys a game and downloads it on Console A, any profile can play the game on that console,
whether there's an Xbox Live connection or not. On the other one, Console B, the game can only be played when your profile is signed in to Xbox Live.

Since you shouldn't be giving your grandsons access to your profile, one thing to do would be for Grandson A to buy a game first on the console mostly used by Grandson B. That way, when A goes back to "his" console, he can re-download the game and play it (as
long as there's an Xbox Live connection), and B still has access to the game via the console license.

Of course, the secondary accounts in a Family Pack can't have payment methods on their profiles, so they have to buy games with Points. They can get Points on their accounts by using codes from prepaid cards, or you can buy the Points on your profile and then
assign them to the other profiles.

It seems a little complicated at first, but it makes sense after you understand it. Sharing a single purchase across multiple profiles on two consoles can be achieved with some planning.

What you are doing is fine.

The recent cases of being banned for Marketplace Theft is because people have been downloading profile from the web and using those to access DLC and games.

Microsoft can tell on what consoles an account has been used and what IP address is being used to connect to Live. So one profile on two consoles in the same household is not an issue.

What is the issue is when one profile is on hundreds of consoles the world over.

@TangentialShark When you recover the console licenses any profile can play it on or offline.

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When you buy something digital you get two licenses. The Gamertag license and the Console license.

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The Gamertag license is what allows access to all your content on any Xbox but you have to be signed into live.

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The Console license allows access to every profile on the console that the content was originally downloaded on. These are the ones you have to recover for a new Xbox to allow unlimited access to everything both on and offline.

wel two things first

first only the purchasing gamertag can download the dlc maps

2nd the other profiles can access the maps as long as they are on the purchasing console but they cannot download the maps



thats the way licenses have always worked