If I buy a game from the Xbox store, can my son access it with his game account?

Hi Philip. My name is Kyle and I'm an independent advisor.

On the Xbox Store, there's an option to buy a game as a gift. This way, you can buy the game with your own account but send it to your son's account, as long as you know his email address.

https://support.xbox.com/help/subscriptions-billing/buy-games-apps/gifting-digital-xbox-game-help

The parental setting to allow your son to play M rated content do not allow him to download M rated content. It's the same as when your in a store. You can buy an M rated game for your son, but he can't buy it himself.



You can purchase the content on your (adult) account, and he should have access to it from his account.

Hi Ezra,

Thanks for your answer, i asked the refund.

But after, how can i refund my money from the microsoft account.

I Bought XBOX and windows carte for my son "Marius" to put money on his microsoft account to buy Vbucks.

Now i know it's not possible to buy Vbucks for windows, from the microsoft store, how can i refund my money from microsoft account.

Because my son is very disappointed

Thank you!

So assume im an idiot!

So My son should sign into my daughters xbox, using his account details and set her xbox as his home xbox. Then my daughter should sign into my sons xbox using her account details, and set his xbox as her home xbox. And i should buy the game on my sons
account and they can share?

My next question is , as you only get 5 resets a year of your home account. Does this mean my son will lose access to the games he shares already, that are on my account? So he’d have to switch back to share with me again?

Hi Geri,

Thank you for reaching out.

Firstly I can confirm that it is a Microsoft Account. The issue is that the account was created using my ex-husband's Microsoft account, which I can not access.

I can not legally login into his account and so I want to move all of my son's game profiles off my ex-husband's account to merge onto a new profile. The only way to do this is to be able to access the existing account, which I don't have access to.

Since my son plays the Xbox and not my ex-husband, my ex-husband left the Xbox with his son when we separated.

How can I verify that the game accounts on the Xbox belong to my son when they are registered on my husband's Microsoft account. I can't provide order history as I can't access the account to provide it.

Thank you.