Sharing games on multiple accounts and xbox ones

spooksbunny · Jul 5, 2017

Okay, so I'm from a family of 8 (3 adults, 5 kids) and we all like to use our Xbox. There's one main account we use to buy all the games, and when we had the Xbox 360, we didn't need to sign into the account that the games were purchased on in order to play
the games. Anyone could sign in on their own account and play any game that was purchased on that Xbox. Even when we had two 360's, games were still shared between both consoles without issue. In fact, we didn't have any problems until we upgraded to the Xbox
One.

We transferred all our accounts over to the Xbox One, along with all the games that were compatible with the new console. Then we bought some new games for the kids to play, but we found that no one could play any of the games unless they signed into the
account that purchased the games. This was a minor annoyance at first, but we just got used to signing into the main account, then signing into our own accounts to play a game.

Yesterday, we bought a second Xbox One. We wanted one for the living room and one for the kid's playroom. Now that minor annoyance has become a huge problem. We can only use one Xbox at a time. No one can play any games unless they're signed into the main
account, and it isn't possible to be signed into the same account on two separate consoles at the same time.

What do I do? Do I seriously have to buy all these games again? We have a lot of games and there are a lot of kids. It would be hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars to repurchase ALL the games on another "main account" for the new Xbox One. It just seems
ridiculous. There has to be another solution to this, right?

:)

MightyQuinn75 · Jul 5, 2017

Xbox limits per household

Hi, you can share with multiple accounts on one xbox. But game sharing and live ect is restricted to one other console in the house.

SENTIENT R0B0T · Jul 5, 2017

Live account on multiple Xbox Ones

have your Xbox One (A) defined as your Home Xbox with your account owner of a Gold subscription, now just connect with your account on the second Xbox One (B)
and define it as your Home Xbox
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The support page seems to say the opposite! - you can't assign 2 xboxs as Home...

Pandasaur cx · Jul 5, 2017

Making the console the "Home" for the main account should give access to the content for the other accounts. (It shouldn't force you to sign into the account during playtime.) You are limited to three "Home" consoles per year.

For the other console, you could do what you've been doing with the account since you are limited with assigning it to a console.

spooksbunny · Nov 1, 2018

Making the console the "Home" for the main account should give access to the content for the other accounts. (It shouldn't force you to sign into the account during playtime.) You are limited to three "Home" consoles per year.

For the other console, you could do what you've been doing with the account since you are limited with assigning it to a console.
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Thank you so much!! This solves the problem

MightyQuinn75

Hi, you can share with multiple accounts on one xbox. But game sharing and live ect is restricted to one other console in the house.

Smwutches

the thing I brought up was, 'an account only can share with one other xbox, but if you had multiple different accounts game sharing on one console, you should be able to play any of the games from any of the accounts'

This is correct. Multiple accounts can set 1 console as their Home, but each account can only set 1 console as their Home.

Pandasaur cx

Making the console the "Home" for the main account should give access to the content for the other accounts. (It shouldn't force you to sign into the account during playtime.) You are limited to three "Home" consoles per year.

For the other console, you could do what you've been doing with the account since you are limited with assigning it to a console.

spooksbunny

Making the console the "Home" for the main account should give access to the content for the other accounts. (It shouldn't force you to sign into the account during playtime.) You are limited to three "Home" consoles per year.

For the other console, you could do what you've been doing with the account since you are limited with assigning it to a console.

Thank you so much!! This solves the problem

julosjc

Hi There,

You can set the main user's as primary account and can share with family,
see here

Sharing games on multiple accounts and xbox ones