Game Sharing

Stahlna · Nov 25, 2018

Me and my brother were game sharing games for the past years, splitting the cost and being able to play together. Now, me and my brother saved up our money and bought the game "Battlefield V". He bought the game on his account and we were both able to download
it. After the download, only he was able to use this game as I was not. It kept saying that the owner of the game can play it. Was referencing that I played a trial of the game and need to buy the current game and was pushing me towards the Microsoft store.
This is all on the xbox one. Please let me know if we can't game share this specific game or if I'm missing something in this whole fiasco.

Thanks.

:)

stormhawk55 · Nov 25, 2018

Shared games?

Hey guys so, I sold my xbox one to my buddy because I got the call of Duty console tonight. I did a factoey reset on the console before giving it to him, but he informed me right now that when he went buy destiny for himself it already said purchased and
let him download it. It did the same with titan fall and alien isolation. He's able to download all the games I paid for. Just now as I'm typing this I'm downloading call of duty and it immediately popped up on his xbox too and started downloading. Is
there a way to fix this because I don't want it to somehow effect me and not let me play the games I paid for.

VX WS8MONSTA XV · Nov 25, 2018

Sharing Games

me and my brother got an xbox one I buyed minecraft but I want him to play it was well to game share so I tried it but it said I can only do it three time per year I tried it three times cause it didn't work can some one help me please

Njal the Blue · Nov 25, 2018

Sounds like your Xbox isn't set as your brothers Home Xbox.

XBF Leslie D · Nov 25, 2018

Hi Stahlna!

Thanks for bringing this up to our attention! It seems to be like the console recognizes previous rights of accessing the game before actually owning it. What I recommend to try out first is trying to remove
and re-add your account.

Side Note: It is very important to make sure you know the primary email/password to the account before removing it from the console.

If this doesn't make a difference then I suggest to uninstall the game from your console and re-install it. As this will refresh the console and it will detect that you have the ownership to also play the game.

Let us know how it goes.

Stahlna · Nov 25, 2018

I did the first thing and didnt work, i did the second thing and it now only give me the option to buy it. What should i do now?

Njal the Blue · Nov 25, 2018

Check that your Xbox is set as your brothers Home Xbox.

Stahlna · Nov 25, 2018

I'll be sure to try this out, thanks!

FlybyKilla · Nov 25, 2018

Hey, so I had the same issue with my friend and I sharing. It seems that this past week they have been experiencing issues (or at least I have) with Home Xbox's resetting or changing on their own. The fix seems to be just going and setting the Home Xbox
again with the account you want to share. Hope this helps!

HyperVenom523 · Nov 25, 2018

Game sharing was having trouble try to re do everything again or wait out unitl it gets resolved!!

Wrightstuff1 · Nov 6, 2018

Is your brothers xbox your home console

Oraclea

Take a look at the instructions featured on https://support.xbox.com/en-US/games/game-setup/my-home-xbox for designating an Xbox as your home Xbox. (I'm assuming that currently someone
else has his/her Xbox designated as your home Xbox, thereby enabling the game sharing.)

Note that you can only change the Xbox you designate as your Xbox up to five times in a one-year period, starting from the moment you change your home Xbox for the first time.

GreyStormGaming

Gamesharing with strangers is a MISTAKE, you might get scammed and lose access to your account, you also might get banned when you gameshare with people from different countries, Gamesharing is meant to be with friends and family.

J.R.G.

The Xbox One WILL allow for used games. You WILL be able to share your games with your family on the same console or if they're under a family account AT NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE. You will still need to purchase a new game if they aren't on the same console
or under a family account, however. Look at it this way, though: Currently, you can't take a game disc & put it into 2 separate consoles at the same time. It's the same concept, but done in a different way.

If this is the case, X Box One is dead to me. I currently can take my game from the X Box signed into my account in the living room, give it to my girlfriend to play in the bedroom under her account, then switch to the X Box in the guest room under any one
of my accounts, and finally give the game to my friend for a couple weeks so he can play under his account. Seeing as there is only one disk we will not all be playing at eh same time, but it is MY game to do as I please. Under the posted guidelines I am merely
"renting" the game purchased and have no rights to the content contained on the disk. I'll pass.

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Peace, J.R.

MaximusBoonie

but you can put a disc in any 360 on any profile without paying anything?

Jaymo1978

Vern, I would caution against this in most cases. While it would be acceptable in the circumstance of family members sharing games like Rave mentions, I've seen others talk about using it in such a way that their friends don't have to pay for games or vice
versa. The intended use of the Home Xbox feature is so a person who uses multiple Xboxes (i.e. at home and at work, or at home and at a family member's house) could download something at their non-home location, and then have it already downloaded and ready
to go when they get home (and can play it while offline.) I could see the argument that using this so a friend can play games you've purchased might be considered a borderline form of piracy. It's basically gaming the system.

It would be nice to hear an official word from MS, but as yet, I've not heard them specifically address the idea that some people have openly mentioned doing - setting a friend's Xbox as their Home system, so anything they buy will show up for their friend
without them having to purchase it. I would be nervous about it, personally.

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