How does Xbox live and game sharing work?

Son of Col · Dec 25, 2017

I received an Xbox 1 for Christmas. My brother had one already with games he bought. He suggested gamesharing his account onto my new Xbox to save me money. We logged into his account on my Xbox, made it the home account, and downloaded his games onto my
Xbox. I signed out of his account and signed back into mine and changed the home account back to mine. I paid for a one month gold membership. However, it is not letting me play online in my games. What did I do wrong and how do I fix it to allow me to play
online?

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brandiesel1 · Dec 25, 2017

2 kids/1 Xbox One

Hello speedyraven02.

You have 2 separate issues. First Halo 5 does not support split screen like previous Halo games so playing at the same time on the same console is not possible.

In regards to gold sharing please see the link below. It'll explain the benefits and the "how to's".

Xbox Live Gold Sharing Features on Xbox One | Xbox Live Gold

SGC Yonce · Dec 25, 2017

Xbox One X Games Not Loading

How does this affect other accounts on the xbox & game sharing?

steeledwand7664 · Dec 26, 2017

Let me explain it to you

No matter what console an account is signed into you should always be able to play your digital games and use your gold.

You can set ONE console as your profiles home console and any other profile on that console then can play your digital games and use your gold without you being signed in.

You can switch which console you have set as your home console FIVE times a year.

Now in your situation are you able to play your brothers games? Or does it give you a message that "do you own this game or app if so sign in with the account that owns this game"

If you want to play your brothers games you would need to sign into his account on your xbox and set your xbox as his profiles home xbox. then you should be able to play his digital games and if he has a gold subscription you should be able to use his gold
also.

Now you said you bought a month of gold sometimes the system memory will think that you dont have gold so to clear the system memory you can:

1. hold down the power button on the front of the console for about 5 seconds for the system to power down.

2. unplug the system power for approximately a minute.

3. plug back in the power.

4. power back up and sign into your account and see if you can start a party or join a multiplayer game.

steeledwand7664

Let me explain it to you

No matter what console an account is signed into you should always be able to play your digital games and use your gold.

You can set ONE console as your profiles home console and any other profile on that console then can play your digital games and use your gold without you being signed in.

You can switch which console you have set as your home console FIVE times a year.

Now in your situation are you able to play your brothers games? Or does it give you a message that "do you own this game or app if so sign in with the account that owns this game"

If you want to play your brothers games you would need to sign into his account on your xbox and set your xbox as his profiles home xbox. then you should be able to play his digital games and if he has a gold subscription you should be able to use his gold
also.

Now you said you bought a month of gold sometimes the system memory will think that you dont have gold so to clear the system memory you can:

1. hold down the power button on the front of the console for about 5 seconds for the system to power down.

2. unplug the system power for approximately a minute.

3. plug back in the power.

4. power back up and sign into your account and see if you can start a party or join a multiplayer game.

Obsessive Power

Hi,

You can share Xbox Live, digital games and DLC, but the game saves can not be shared between accounts.

Sharing Xbox live

How home Xbox and game sharing work

Christyna64

When sharing Xbox Live and games, the account that purchased Xbox Live can share the service. You have to set your home console with the account used to purchase Xbox Live, then you can share Xbox Live and games when you sign in with that account on other
consoles. Here is some instructions on how this works linked below.

Xbox Support - Share Xbox Live

https://support.xbox.com/help/subsc...bscriptions/share-xbox-live-gold-subscription

julosjc

Hi There,

See
here for instructions, anything outside these parameters will not work.

ChiefJoboo

If only one account has gold then that account can get onto xbox live on any console regardless of the "my home xbox" feature.

Xbox live sharing does not work on xbox 360, so you will need more subscriptions for each other account that doesn't have gold.

On the xbox one the my home xbox feature will share xbox live gold and digital games (not all DLC) to all other accounts on that console when the account with gold is the "my home xbox" account but that does not share to backwards compatible games on xbox
one.

How does Xbox live and game sharing work?