Help with downloaded game within family

Discus and support Help with downloaded game within family in XBoX Games and Apps to solve the problem; I ordered a game for my kids to play through my parent account. The kids don't seem to be able to play the game unless I sign in. I have the console as... Discussion in 'XBoX Games and Apps' started by mk12345u3829qy58931ytpiao, Apr 14, 2020.

  1. Help with downloaded game within family


    I ordered a game for my kids to play through my parent account. The kids don't seem to be able to play the game unless I sign in. I have the console as my home console on my microsoft account and the kids are part of my family account.

    They can play any of the disc games we purchase but not the online downloads. It's not a content rating issue.

    What step am I missing?

    :)
     
    mk12345u3829qy58931ytpiao, Apr 14, 2020
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  2. PalmettoBling Win User

    Help with downloaded game within family

    From the description, it sounds like it's a Home console issue. I would double check that designation.

    If you could test for other titles you know that your account owns, but the children's do not, you could test if it behaves like the console is your Home Console without you signed in. That will let us know if it's a designation issue or an issue with that
    specific game and let us know what the next best troubleshooting steps are.

    Let us know!
  3. Aiden K1 Win User

    Minecraft won’t download from the store with family safety on

    The game is working however no content is able to download within Minecraft Marketplace due to some unknown settings in the Microsoft Family Safety.
  4. ThisGameIsSucky Win User

    Is there a way to share games within a family?

    The best way would be to use the "Home Xbox" setting.

    Set the account that owns all of the games as the "Home Xbox" and the restart the console and everything that can be downloaded from that account should then be visible to every other account on the console, and useable since now the account would then be
    tied to the console itself.

    You can learn more about this future here.

    https://support.xbox.com/en-US/games/game-setup/my-home-xbox
  5. Bokor Zombie Win User

    Is there a way to share games within a family?

    Hi
    AttachedNose8
    ,

    Thank you for bringing this question to the Xbox Forum.There are two ways you can do this one is if you are both on the same xbox he can share every game on there regardless. The second way is if he has a seperate xbox you set his to Home Xbox in settings
    and he has access to all your games.

    The main thing though is Fortnite is a free game to Download so therefore you should just be able to download it to his account.
  6. ImpaledGremlin Win User

    Is there a way to share games within a family?

    Hi it's really easy as stated above.

    If it's one xbox just set it as your home xbox and then anyone using it with their account gets access to all your games.

    If you have 2 boxes then set theirs as your home xbox and your one as theirs so you both access to all games.

    It also allows you to share gold this way to allow you both to be online
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