two consoles, two kids, one xbox live!

Discus and support two consoles, two kids, one xbox live! in XBoX on Consoles to solve the problem; Hope someone out there can help. I recently bought an xbox one for my 7 year old son, primarily to play Roblox and minecraft on. As roblox is web... Discussion in 'XBoX on Consoles' started by StevenRogers5, Nov 30, 2019.

  1. two consoles, two kids, one xbox live!


    Hope someone out there can help.

    I recently bought an xbox one for my 7 year old son, primarily to play Roblox and minecraft on. As roblox is web based I also bought xbox live gold membership under my profile and made myself the automatic sign in on his xbox. When switching on he just changes
    the profile to his own. Everything working fine.

    However, I have now just bought my daughter an xbox one for Christmas, she wants to play Sims 4 online with her friends. I thought I could make myself the lead person on her console too and they could both share my xbox live, but from what I've read I dont
    think this will work.

    If I bought my son xbox live gold membership and made him the lead profile on my daughters console (make this the home xbox) could they share the live membership?

    If this would work, my next concern would be if my daughter could download Sims 4 (pegi12) on her console when using her brother's xbox live membership (content suitability etc) as he's only 7 years old.

    I myself dont really need xbox live and for how often it will get used I really dont want to be buying two subscriptions, one for each of my children.

    I've read loads on the subject but just keep going round in circles. I also want to get it right first time to avoid expensive mistakes!

    Thanks in advance for your help

    :)
     
    StevenRogers5, Nov 30, 2019
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  2. StevenRogers5 Win User

    two consoles, two kids, one xbox live!

    thanks everyone!

    I'll let you know a bit later how I get on!

    thanks again
  3. AridLizard Win User

    two consoles, two kids, one xbox live!

    if you buy Sims 4 for your daughter on her account it won't be affected by her console being set as the Home Xbox for your son as it works off her age and any permissions set on her account, not his.

    you can set your son's xbox as the Home console for both your account and your daughter's and then set your daughter's xbox to sign you in automatically when she turns it on and both will be able to use your Xbox Live

    if you do this I recommend setting a Pass Key for purchases so she doesn't accidentally make any in game purchases. this link explains how to set that up.

    https://support.xbox.com/en-US/my-account/security/passkey-purchases

    so in summary;

    make your sons Xbox Home for your account and your daughters.

    set your daughter's xbox as your son's Home xbox and to automatically sign you in.

    set a passkey on purchases on your account on your daughter's xbox.

    this will give them both access to your Live Gold subscription and digital games as well as access to each other's games.

    when your Gold subscription expires you can then either renew it on your account or purchase it for either your son or daughter and they will both be able to play online with just the 1 subscription.

    hope this helps
  4. steeledwand7664 Win User

    two consoles, two kids, one xbox live!

    Let me explain it for you.

    No matter what console a profile is signed into it will always be able to play its digital games and use any subscription it has.

    Each profile can set one console as its home console and any other profile on that console can then play any digital games that profile owns and use any subscription that it has. (game/subscription sharing)

    Each profile can switch which console it has set as the home console FIVE times a year.

    So in your situation it would probably be best to purchase the gold on one of your children's accounts say your daughters then you would set your sons console as your daughters home console then your son would be able to play roblox and get online by sharing
    your daughters gold now keep in mind your daughter would still be able to use her gold on her console also as long as it is connected to the internet. Or if you purchase the gold on your sons account you would set your daughters console as his profiles home
    console and she would be able to use/share his gold subscription. and he would still be able to use it on his console as long as its connected to the internet.

    Then you can cancel the subscription under your account. Hopefully you only paid for the one month subscription.

    If you paid for longer you may be able to get ahold of xbox support by going to support.xbox.com/contact-us and explaining the situation to them and they maybe able to cancel the subscription for you on your account and then give you a 25 digit code for
    the time to put the code onto one of their accounts.

    Hope this helps explain it a little better. If you have any other questions just let us know.
  5. Njal the Blue Win User

    two consoles, two kids, one xbox live!

    What you need to do is have one of your children with the subscription. They then make the other chipds Xbox, their home Xbox. This then gives the child without live, access to live and any games that have been purchased. The child that has the Xbox live
    account, can sign in on the other Xbox and have access to live and all their games.

    https://support.xbox.com/en-US/games/game-setup/my-home-xbox
  6. x Sarasaurus x Win User

    two consoles, two kids, one xbox live!

    Hi there

    As mentioned above,

    Your best bet is to make the home consoles on each of the children's account. This way they can share the gold subscription and games.
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