When sharing your Gold subscription, what are the specific gold benefits you get?

When I set my xbox to the home XBOX my gold subscription is supposedly shared with my kids accounts. What does this include?

It seems they (kids) can play games online but they (kids) cannot purchase games with gold for example.

Can someone clarify?

Thanks!

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I cannot get gold live on my console even though my son gas it on his, his being the home xbox

If I got it right, you are using two different consoles to play the same game and that is the issue.

If your son is connected to his own console, the gold sharing is done on that console meaning that other users on that same console can benefit from gold features, but only on that console.

You can use your son gold Subscription on your own console only when your son account is connected to your console sharing gold, which is not possible in this case since he is already connected to his own one.

So with 2 consoles you need 2 separate gold subscriptions.

 

Game Sharing Problem

Hey Grimkaos969,

If you are referring to game sharing through the Home Console setting, only accounts that OWN the Gold subscription can benefit from the Games with Gold or Deals with Gold. Your account will need to have an active license for a Gold Subscription to benefit
from those features. If you were able to access those features before, that was probably because you were paying for a subscription at that time.

The only thing that is "sharable' when it comes sharing with the Home Console setting is purchased game licenses, and online accessibility.

If you'd like more information on that, I suggest going to
Xbox Customer Support.

I hope that clears things up.

 

When you share gold the accounts that are sharing the gold get access to online multiplayer. Only the account that purchases the gold gets access to things like gold discounts or games with gold games. However, the games with gold games can be shared once
downloaded.

 

Hi there,

Correct, when you set your home console it allows all users on that console to be able to play your purchased games as well as use your gold subscription. The info can be found

here.

Users have to have a gold subscription on their account (not be on a shared gold subscription) in order to benefit from the Games with Gold deals.

 

Hello, You are correct, your kids can play online games, but they can not redeem the games with gold, since their account does not have gold.

Your kids will also be able to play any of your digital games on your home Xbox.

Here is the Xbox Live Gold sharing features page.

Hopefully I was of some help.

 

Technically, since you are sharing the Gold membership to your Home Console (and not other accounts), the kid accounts stay a free silver account, and ONLY get the multiplayer and party benefits that the console grants them, while playing on your Home Console.

For the Xbox online service, the kids accounts appear as a standard free silver account, that are allowed to play multiplayer and do party chats thanks to the Gold sharing on the console.

They will NOT benefit from sales prices or the free Games with Gold.