Family member not able to play online on home xbox.

Discus and support Family member not able to play online on home xbox. in XBoX on Consoles to solve the problem; My son is trying to play COD Cold War. When he tries to sign in it indicates he needs to sign up for Xbox Live Gold or gamepass. We already have... Discussion in 'XBoX on Consoles' started by GoUWYO, Dec 27, 2020.

  1. GoUWYO
    GoUWYO Guest

    Family member not able to play online on home xbox.


    My son is trying to play COD Cold War. When he tries to sign in it indicates he needs to sign up for Xbox Live Gold or gamepass. We already have gamepass and he is on the home console, a series X. I had him try tp play on our other console, an xbox
    one, and it indicated the person who bought the game needed to sign in. This makes sense to me because it's not the home console, but why can't he play on the home console?

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    GoUWYO, Dec 27, 2020
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  2. RoninhoM2906 Win User

    Family members not able to play online

    Have You talked to Xbox Support to know what happened?
  3. DoubleSpeed Win User

    Family of 4 with 2 XBOX's

    Really doesn't seem fair that we as a household/family can't all play within the home network IP I understand there needs to be some controls to stop ad-hoc sharing of content with friends etc, however same family in the same location we should be able
    to play on more than one XBOX in the home as I said its not convenient for multiple family members to play in my son's bedroom! If I make the downstairs XBOX 'home' then my son won't be able to play. Is there not a solution
    to this?
  4. ArminatorX Win User

    Gameshare and EA

    First of all, there is no "Game Sharing" feature on the Xbox. People just name it that way, as it somehow works similar to what they imagine "game sharing" would do.

    Instead, the "Home Console" feature allows family members that play together on one console to play games from other family members and benefit from one family member's Gold membership.

    In theory, if your dad sets your console as their account's "Home Console" you will be able to play all games your dad has on his account, and most add ons your dad owns. Also your dad's Gold membership will be shared to your console, and everyone playing
    on your dad's "Home Console" will be able to play online multiplayer on that "Home Console".

    As for subscriptions like EA Access, this should IN THEORY work as well, so you could be able to play Titanfall 2, and thanks to your dad's shared Gold membership, you should also be able to play the Multiplayer part of it.

    However, as EA Access is a separate subscription, games from the vault may or may not work on your console. Games your dad bought or got via Xbox Game Pass should however work.
  5. HulkUK75 Win User

    Family and Xbox live

    if you have gold on your account, you need to set your account as home on the console and all over members of the family that login will be able to go online at the same time
  6. KindGryphon Win User

    Family licensing

    I tried that and i did not work

    I bought games under my account and listed my children as family members so they should be able to play the games on the other xboxs in the house and the one at their grandmothers. why is it not allowing this to happen i have removed any setting that could stop this.
    No it doesnt work like that unfortunately. They would only be able to play your games from the home xbox (can only have one of those). Being listed as a family member makes no difference.

    It is odd that its still not working even from the home xbox though
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