Digital games on family account with multiple XB1's

BROON-4CA882B8-7A50-49F9-80C3-E78DFA4BFB16 · Nov 8, 2015

I have 2 XB1's and looking to get 2 more so that me and my 3 kids can play on our own consoles. We live in the same house and the kids are under my account as family.

Right now, I buy one digital game, and it shows up on both consoles. If i buy 2 more consoles, will the games show up on them or do I have to buy more copies so we can play together at the same time?

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painkillah1 · Nov 8, 2015

Problem Playing Digital Download Game

I have two XB1's with multiple accounts. I downloaded Just Dance 2014 on my XB1 in the livingroom and it will only play for my user account. I downloaded it to this XB1 thinking my wife could play and company could play when over. Why can I buy a physical
copy and play on any profile on my consoles but it won't allow me the same rights with my digital content? Is there a way to allow other profiles to play my downloaded game in the livingroom while I play different games on my profile in the gameroom?

curlymarty62 · Nov 8, 2015

Switching from one console to multiple consoles

Different versions of this scenario have been posted before, so apologies for repeating, but please can someone clarify - we currently have:

One XB1 - with three gamers.

One adult and two child gamertags

Using the family setting - the adult account has the console as the home console and the subscriptions to Xbox Gold Live and EA Access

After Santa ;o) we will have another XB1, ideally I would like to still control the two child accounts via family, but allow them both to continue to access the current games and we have digital copies which where downloaded on the adult account.

My understanding is that:

Digital games can be transferred to another gamertag (but only one) - so another digital copy would be required.

The adult account cannot have multiple home consoles (as concurrent logons are not permitted).

So, my questions are:

Will both child accounts need to have separate Xbox live accounts?

Can I still control their accounts via family, when their accounts will now have their own home consoles and the adult account will be a 'guest' on both?

Is there another way of achieving this split?

Thanks!

onyxishere · Nov 8, 2015

Ok, so the reason the games are showing up on two consoles is due to the Sharing feature built in to the Xbox One. If your gamertag is set as Home on one console and you purchase a game with your gamertag on the other it will download to both consoles.
The content is playable on both consoles. The console that is set as your Home console will allow access to the game to anyone who wants to play. On the other, if anyone wants to play your gamertag will need to be signed in.

If you get two more consoles then your best bet would be to purchase a new Gold membership for one of the other accounts and set it as the Home gamertag and repurchase the games you want. Then you would experience the same features on all four consoles
but with only needing two copies of each of the games.

onyxishere

Ok, so the reason the games are showing up on two consoles is due to the Sharing feature built in to the Xbox One. If your gamertag is set as Home on one console and you purchase a game with your gamertag on the other it will download to both consoles.
The content is playable on both consoles. The console that is set as your Home console will allow access to the game to anyone who wants to play. On the other, if anyone wants to play your gamertag will need to be signed in.

If you get two more consoles then your best bet would be to purchase a new Gold membership for one of the other accounts and set it as the Home gamertag and repurchase the games you want. Then you would experience the same features on all four consoles
but with only needing two copies of each of the games.

skismatik

I have multiple family members with there own xbox live accounts sharing a xb360 and a xb1. I'd like to know if other accounts logging into either of the consoles after the upgrade will have access to the game.

Anyone with both consoles try this yet?

ArminatorX

It's not supposed to "make things cheaper".

It was a compromise to allow multiple family members to play a game one account bought digitally, so a digital game works similar to a physical disc game.

If a game purchase were strictly tied to only one single user, families or similar household groups would be at a disadvantage compared to physical purchases.

To make digital purchases more attractive to customers, they had to find a way to allow multiple users to use the same purchase, without allowing misuse.

ArminatorX

It's not supposed to "make things cheaper".

It was a compromise to allow multiple family members to play a game one account bought digitally, so a digital game works similar to a physical disc game.

If a game purchase were strictly tied to only one single user, families or similar household groups would be at a disadvantage compared to physical purchases.

To make digital purchases more attractive to customers, they had to find a way to allow multiple users to use the same purchase, without allowing misuse.

LiquidBlizzard

Yes, the family accounts probably have to be tied to a particular xbox(s). With all of the XB1's shocking policies, I doubt that it would be as great as you would like to think.

Digital games on family account with multiple XB1's