Xbox Game Sharing Inquiry

BurritoBuster9000 · Mar 19, 2022

Hi all,

So I’ve just game shared with my friend and this is what I did:

- Signed into both consoles using both of our accounts.

- I set my Xbox and my friend’s Xbox to my home Xboxes.

- I had set my Xbox as my friend’s home Xbox.

- I had set up password sign in on my friend’s Xbox, so when he needs to sign into my account, they’ll need the PW.

The issue is that they can’t access online play. They can play all my games I’ve downloaded onto their console when I had it briefly a few days ago, but they can’t get online in Warzone or join my lobby in Gang Beasts for instance. They can join my parties and accept game invites through Xbox but can’t do online play for some reason. What’s the issue? When I go to ‘Manage Subscription’ their Xbox says it that they have none, under their account.

My friend has a regular Xbox One and I have an Xbox One S.

:)

Francia J.

Hi BurritoBuster9000, I hope you're doing great out there despite the issue that you're experiencing. I am an Independent advisor and I am here to help you in regards to your concern.

Do you have an active Xbox Live Gold subscription or Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and do they have an active subscription as well?

Also, Warzone is a free-to-play game which means that it does not require a subscription. If you can let me know the error that they're getting that would be great.

HomegrownSilky

- I set my Xbox and my friend’s Xbox to my home Xboxes.

- I had set my Xbox as my friend’s home Xbox.

- I had set up password sign in on my friend’s Xbox, so when he needs to sign into my account, they’ll need the PW.

You only need to set his Xbox as your account's "Home" console and then your console as his account's "Home" console. Once you do that you can even remove your account from his console as long as you don't change the Home setting. You can only have one "Home" console at a time so if you also made your Xbox the "Home" of your account as well as on his console, you may have removed the "Home" designation on his console. He shouldn't ever need your password to your account. And logging into an account that you do not own is a violation of the TOS and can lead to permanent bans. It does not matter if permission is given since sharing your account details is also against the TOS.

XBF Nestor S

Hey Dave thanks for brining this inquiry to us!!

All the steps and information on the
home sharing is posted onto our website, check it out and let us know if we can further assist in this or any other issue or inquiry!

In short, the account which has subscriptions and games has to be set to home for the other accounts to get the benefits of Home Console Sharing.

XBF Nestor S

Hey Christoph thanks for taking the time to bring this inquiry to us unfortunately there isn't a way to merge Microsoft accounts. What can be done is setting one to

My Home Xbox and share content from one to another! Give it a shot and keep us posted to see if we can further assist with this or any other issues or inquiries!

Sodangidni

Hello, Phoebe P. I'm Arturo, a community user like you, and I'll be glad to provide assistance with your inquiry today.

IMPORTANT: Refrain from sharing personal information, including email addresses, gamertags, phone numbers, etc.

As community users like you, we are not able to enter or check information, and everything we comment can be seen by anyone on the internet.

That being said, I find it appropriate to ask if you could share more details about your inquiry.

For example, is this about a specific in-game inquiry, what's the name of the game, etc.?

The more information you provide about your concern, the better I can assist. Feel free to share screenshots if needed, just make sure to hide personal information.

Thanks for taking the time to share more details.

Regards,

Arturo.

Xbox Game Sharing Inquiry