family gold live gone

boggermon · Mar 8, 2014

our family xbox 360 live gold finally ran out today, can my family with 4 profiles & separate gamertags play with one xbox 360 gold live purchase or have I got to purchase 4 which could cost me £160 , we only ever play on one xbox so I cant understand that
if I do need 4 I have to pay & register 4 separately one to each profile,

I hope that I am wrong & this is not the case

thanks in advance

:)

Funky Jammer · Mar 8, 2014

Xbox Live Gold Family Pack No Longer Available

Posted an hour ago.

Source: Gamer Syndrome

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Microsoft has confirmed that the Xbox Live Gold Family Pack is no longer available for purchase, after several people noted its disappearance earlier this month.

“The Family Gold offer is no longer available for purchase,” a company representative told Joystiq. “The Family Center experience with settings management, allowance granting, child activity reports and family subscriptions management are still available for current Family Gold members at this time.”

Asked about the reasoning behind this decision, he replied: “We continually evaluate our business focus and work to offer services that make the most sense for our customers and Xbox.”

The Family pack was originally introduced in November 2010 and was a $99 bundle that included four year long Gold memberships for four family members, along with functions to monitor and control each family member’s content purchasing and viewing settings via the Family center.

The Xbox LIVE Gold Family Pack gives you four 12-month Gold memberships for less than the price of two. You can easily convert an existing Xbox LIVE Gold membership, or you can sign up for a new Xbox LIVE account and Gold Family Pack membership.

Note You will get a discount on your Gold Family Pack membership if you have time remaining on your existing Gold membership.

With the Gold Family Pack, you can:

Give family members an allowance of Microsoft Points to redeem for films, games and more.
Manage your family memberships, activities and Family Settings from the Family Centre.
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AvalonX · Mar 8, 2014

Microsoft just ended the Family Plan for good

Microsoft sent this announcement via e-mail to all Family Plan members. This is terrible for people who have more than one console. Also note (in bold) that this answers the questions about the Gold Live sharing on multiple consoles. So if you plan to throw out your 360's and game library and have you family glued to one Xbox One then you are good. Once you go that friends house your family cannot play in Live on either console unless you have an additional sub. Terrible.

Xbox Live Gold Family Pack Conversion to Individual Memberships
As a valued Xbox Live Gold member, we'd like to thank you and your family for being part of the Gold community.

We continually evaluate our offerings and are always working to provide services that best meet the needs of our customers.
Starting August 27, 2013, we will be converting each activated account on your Gold Family Pack to an individual Xbox Live Gold membership to prepare for new upcoming features on Xbox Live Gold. Rest assured, each individual membership will work on both Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
Through the new Home Gold feature on Xbox One, a single Xbox Live Gold membership will allow anyone in your home to enjoy many Gold features like multiplayer, access to Gold entertainment apps, and more on your Xbox One.*
As a bonus, we will give each converted individual Xbox Live Gold membership from your Gold Family Pack an extra 3 months of Gold (in addition to the time remaining on your membership term).**
Before your memberships convert, you can still add family members to your Xbox Live Gold Family Pack, for a total of up to four accounts. However, any unassigned secondary accounts will no longer be accessible after your conversion. Please be sure to update your secondary accounts here.
After your memberships convert, the only Gold Family Pack features that will no longer be available are activity monitoring reports and Microsoft Points allowances. Activity monitoring reports will deactivate at the time of Gold Family Pack conversion, whereas the Microsoft Points allowance feature will no longer be available after the next Xbox 360 system update. Xbox Live family settings, including parental controls for what your kids can access and play on or offline, will still be available.

More Info >>

We hope you enjoy your 3 bonus months of Xbox Live Gold and continue to benefit from your Xbox Live Gold memberships on Xbox 360 and Xbox One.

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THEOWENKILLER · Mar 8, 2014

The family pack has been gone for about 12 months,you were very lucky to get the extra years worth.

If you aim to keep just your 360 you will have to purchase separate gold time for each account.

The xbox one only needs one gold account per console for any account to be able to play online.

THEOWENKILLER

The family pack has been gone for about 12 months,you were very lucky to get the extra years worth.

If you aim to keep just your 360 you will have to purchase separate gold time for each account.

The xbox one only needs one gold account per console for any account to be able to play online.

matt1912-96D1F147-4A

I suggest just keep checking xbox news for a re-reveal at some point. Until then there is often deals that can be done in stores I also suggest you look at.

MissyQ

I really hope they have something equivalent coming out, but as far as I know, there isn't anything yet. My assumption (and this is NOT a Microsoft official post not even remotely) is that with the announcement of the new Xbox on May 21st, there might be
something that they replace it with for that. That's the only thing I can assume with it being discontinued so close to the announcement of the new Xbox. I hope they do get something to replace it for you, because you're right, that was a terrific deal. I
hope they come out with something to keep you wanting more.

RiinaInverse

i hope yer right D: i just cant afford 240 a year like that...i have other things to pay for too >.<

SilentGamer895

Family pack plan is gone each account must have a subscription to gold sorry.

family gold live gone