XBox Live Gold account not working on secondary accounts on same console.

Heisenberg7399 · Aug 24, 2016

I have a subscription to XBox Live Gold. My daughter is trying to play on her account and it is telling her she needs to buy XBox Live Gold or put in a code. How do I do this? WHere do I find the "code" so she can access XBox Live Gold on oour console?

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AvalonX · Aug 24, 2016

Microsoft just ended the Family Plan for good

Microsoft sent this announcement via e-mail to all Family Plan members. This is terrible for people who have more than one console. Also note (in bold) that this answers the questions about the Gold Live sharing on multiple consoles. So if you plan to throw out your 360's and game library and have you family glued to one Xbox One then you are good. Once you go that friends house your family cannot play in Live on either console unless you have an additional sub. Terrible.

Xbox Live Gold Family Pack Conversion to Individual Memberships
As a valued Xbox Live Gold member, we'd like to thank you and your family for being part of the Gold community.

We continually evaluate our offerings and are always working to provide services that best meet the needs of our customers.
Starting August 27, 2013, we will be converting each activated account on your Gold Family Pack to an individual Xbox Live Gold membership to prepare for new upcoming features on Xbox Live Gold. Rest assured, each individual membership will work on both Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
Through the new Home Gold feature on Xbox One, a single Xbox Live Gold membership will allow anyone in your home to enjoy many Gold features like multiplayer, access to Gold entertainment apps, and more on your Xbox One.*
As a bonus, we will give each converted individual Xbox Live Gold membership from your Gold Family Pack an extra 3 months of Gold (in addition to the time remaining on your membership term).**
Before your memberships convert, you can still add family members to your Xbox Live Gold Family Pack, for a total of up to four accounts. However, any unassigned secondary accounts will no longer be accessible after your conversion. Please be sure to update your secondary accounts here.
After your memberships convert, the only Gold Family Pack features that will no longer be available are activity monitoring reports and Microsoft Points allowances. Activity monitoring reports will deactivate at the time of Gold Family Pack conversion, whereas the Microsoft Points allowance feature will no longer be available after the next Xbox 360 system update. Xbox Live family settings, including parental controls for what your kids can access and play on or offline, will still be available.

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We hope you enjoy your 3 bonus months of Xbox Live Gold and continue to benefit from your Xbox Live Gold memberships on Xbox 360 and Xbox One.

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STANNY08 · Aug 24, 2016

Xbox One Price drop

I think so yes but for a single xbox, it takes the single live account and all users can access features behind the paywall as if they had gold on that console.

arthurdentpc has 3 xbox's tho, and the old "family" bundle allowed each user to effectively have their own gold membership, so gold on each user which translated to gold on each console, now its gold to anyone on the single xbox....

So I assume on single xbox families the new system is much better, but on multiple xbox families its not as good. Its not super clear tho how this new gold system will work on xbox one, but it does read like arthur is shafted rather unfairly in this new scenario.Click to expand...
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If that is the case who gets to use their gold account on other machines? They've clearly said that. Just like now, your live subscription follows you to whatever Xbox console you use. So who on that original console can take their account to another console?

{Parity} · Aug 24, 2016

You will need to set your profile as the console's home xbox. support.xbox.com/.../my-home-xbox Let us know if that works for you. Good Luck!!

{Parity}

You will need to set your profile as the console's home xbox. support.xbox.com/.../my-home-xbox Let us know if that works for you. Good Luck!!

THEOWENKILLER

Your account will work on both consoles as you are the main account on the xbox one.

Yours sons account will work on the xbox one as a secondary account with all gold benefits.

Your son would need to buy gold again to be a gold member on the 360.

RoboticTester

What is a primary and secondary Family Pack account?

The Xbox LIVE account used to purchase a Gold Family Pack membership is the primary Family Pack account. All other Xbox LIVE accounts associated with the Family Pack membership are secondary accounts.

To see and add family pack members:

On your console, sign in using the Xbox LIVE account that you used to sign up for a Family Pack membership (the primary account).

Go to Settings, and then select Family.

The primary and secondary accounts are shown. To add or remove family members, please see

Managing Gold Family Pack members.

JPep715

Sharing a gold subscription on one Xbox One console is true, however a gold account can access their games on any console. Set one console as the HOME console under settings. This will make that console shareable with secondary accounts. To play together
the secondary account must be logged into the HOME console and the Gold account must be logged into the second console. At least that is what i have come to understand.

iRayDawg

If you are trying to use the same gamertag on two different systems at the same time, well you can not do that. You can use your gamertag on one system at a time by either recovering that gamertag to that system or simply using a flash usb drive to travel
between two different systems. However there is the Xbox Live Gold Family Pack that will allow you to have more than one gold gamertag, but at least one has to be the primary account and you get 3 additional secondary accounts to create that can be used on
other consoles, but you will need to create them all on the primary accounts console and recover the secondary to another console.

XBox Live Gold account not working on secondary accounts on same console.