Password protect games that I bought.

alex23323 · Sep 28, 2014

Now I live with a family of 5. I am not the parent; but I am the oldest son of the other 2. My little brother and little sister are both gamers and like to play the games I buy with my spare, or hard earned money. I do not really think it is fair for them
to play the games that I (personally) buy. I think that they should buy their own games if they want to play it so badly, or at least ask. Is there not some kind of way to password protect or make games account bound, or is it free to play by console? I am
sorry if I appear to be complaining. I am just a little irritated.

:)

Lt Phoenix KIA · Sep 28, 2014

Password protect purchases?

I had my rock band drums plugged in and when my dad came round my house, he saw them and started thrashing out a drum solo. I then noticed my xbox light was on, turned on the tv to find that he has only gone and bought an arcade game. Duh!

BAFarmer · Sep 28, 2014

Password protect purchases?

My 3 year old shouldn't need to have their own Xbox Gold account in order to use Netflix on the Xbox since MS is moving towards a media consumption approach vs strictly a game console. All other media consumption devices that I use require a password confirmation
for making purchase.

StuartATrueRed · Sep 29, 2014

Hi alex, there is no way to password protect your games. When you buy a game and download it to a console, anyone can log into that console and play that game. If you are really bothered by this, then have you thought of buying a usb external hard drive,
and then you can install your games on that, then remove the drive when you stop playing.

StuartATrueRed

Hi alex, there is no way to password protect your games. When you buy a game and download it to a console, anyone can log into that console and play that game. If you are really bothered by this, then have you thought of buying a usb external hard drive,
and then you can install your games on that, then remove the drive when you stop playing.

Dirty Loco

http://support.xbox.com/en-au/pages/xbox-live/how-to/account-security.aspx

nevillefarrell

Hi Kill3rkid05,

So first of all to block purchases your son must have a child account. Now I guessing that he has not got one because if he had he would have needed your email and password to set up his account. Most of the time kids are smart enough to set up accounts
with older ages as to give them adult account and access to adult content and controls. But if he has a child account in his privacy and online setting there should be an option there to block Purchasing now if there is not an option in privacy and online
settings at all for that then that means he has an adult account and you can not block purchase, sorry.

Now I believe the function you are talking about in your post putting a code on a controller is called the Passkey. It's only available on the Xbox One's and not the 360. It's a cool function where buy if someone goes to buy something with that profile it
requires a Passkey like say for example x,x,x,LT. Now if you son has his email as the sign in on the account he could disable it quite easy though. The passkey is not designed to stop children buying content it's designed to stop people buying things on your
profile when your not around.

The best advice out there is just remove your credit card and use Pre Paid Codes from the shops. There is codes for Gold to give him Live, Currency so he can buy content. With Kids PPC's are always the answer

I hope this helps.

Fyer

Q: OK, well what’s a good type of password?

A: Well, ideally you should be using a strong password which should contain a combination of uppercase, lowercase, numbers and symbols. It should also be anywhere from 8-12 characters in length (or more if you choose). I know that seems like a bunch,
but honestly you can make them pretty easy. Take the following sentence:

“I got up on Saturday at 5AM! It was TOO early!”

Not that difficult to remember, lets play around with it and make a password (please do not use this as your password, it would make me sad)

IguoSa5AM!IwTe!

15 character password! Look at it! It's glorious... ok not really but it is a password that contains different case letters, special symbols, and numbers which *is* pretty awesome. All I did was grab the first letter of each word/abbreviation as it appears
in the sentence, and used that to create my example password. Odds of someone guessing it if you do not give someone the sentence or the password itself? Not so good.

THEOWENKILLER

Actually its you thats in the wrong,giving out your password and allowing other people to use your profile is a violation of the code of conduct.

As far as i can see,if you gave him your account details he hasn`t stolen anything,you gave it to him.

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You are also breaking the forum rules by naming and shaming him on here.

Password protect games that I bought.