Digital game sharing

AlteredDart · Sep 6, 2020

Hey guys, im about to buy my first digital game for my xbox one. So me and my brother share the same console and have our individual accounts on it. So if i buy the game on my account will he be able to play the game on his account too? On the same console
ofcourse. Or does he have to buy the game too. Any advice would really help. Thanks in advance.

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Jurgen1488

If you share account. You share games, apps, every subscriptions what you have..

You share only digital games. No on disc. Only digital.

Albert X

Regardless if Family settings, game sharing parameters still apply. So the digital games can only be shared on two consoles. In terms of buying the games directly from Microsoft that is not an issue as long as the game shared is in digital format, it really
doesn't matter from what retailer you purchase the game as long as it is digital format.

Farscape247

you must own each console the game will be on, the console that is set as the home console will let any profile on there play the game and any other console you must be signed in with your profile, this is a grey area and can be deemed against the terms
of use, sharing in the same household is much more common and I think should be ok, but game sharing with friends in different locations could technically be called market place theft.

dempup

Hey AlteredDart.

Thank you for reaching out to the forum. That is not possible in the long run. You are only allowed to change your home consol 5 times pr. year. So i would recommend that shared purchases are done on that account.

Siriusdish

Yes, it is called game sharing. To do this you need to sign in to your account on their Xbox, go to settings --> personalization --> my home xbox --> Make this Xbox my home Xbox. Now just sign in to your children's account(s), go to library, then full
library, and they'll be able to download the games. Also, if you have a gold membership, they will have access to it too. Hope this helped!

Digital game sharing