Xbox Live Gold Family Need Adult sign in

Hi

I have Xbox Live Gold membership which should cover myself and both my kids on 3 separate xbox's and me set as adult, and kids set up as family.

The problem is this - one child has full access, while the other can only play online if he signs me in on his xbox and then uses his profile.

If I log in on my xbox, he gets kicked out.

Any ideas?

:)

 

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Join Xbox LIVE Gold Family Pack

With the Xbox LIVE Gold Family Pack, your family is given four 12-month Gold Memberships for less than the price of two. If you are interested, just select Family Gold on the Subscription selection screen.

No option for Gold Family Pack?

You might be using a child account, or the Gold Family Pack does not apply to your region.

Here is a list of countries that have access to the Gold Family Pack:

• Australia
• Canada
• United States
• United Kingdom
• Germany
• France
• New Zealand
• Japan
• Mexico

 

Xbox Live Gold Family Pack No Longer Available

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Gold can only be shared on the console you have set as your Home. It cannot be shared across 3 separate consoles. In that type of situation you would need at least 2 subscriptions. You set one of the consoles as your Home, then you can sign into another
one and still use gold as long as you're signed in, then one of the kids would need gold on their account and sign into or set the 3rd console as their Home.

 

DanGaley,

The way the family sharing works is the profiles that are on the "Home" Xbox are able to access all of the features and games available that the primary account purchases without the primary account being logged in. The Primary account can then Log
into a different Xbox and still have the same features and access to the Games.

The Secondary accounts are not allowed to access the live features or digital games when they are not on the home Xbox, Unless the Primary is logged in with them to the same one.

Because of this limitation you are only able to share between two Xbox ones at a time.

 

Hi Dan,

Thank you for coming to the forums today. I'd be happy to help.

Xbox Live gold sharing through the adult account in a Family is no longer a feature unfortunately. Sharing Gold to other accounts can only be done through the Home Console. Each account can only have one home console and other accounts can only benefit from
the gold subscription on your account if you are concurrently signed in to their Xbox. Of course an account can only be signed in to one Xbox at a time, hence why he gets kicked out of Xbox Live because your account get's signed out from his/her Xbox.

Essentially if they all have their own Xbox's, you would only be able to share your Gold subscription to one other Xbox and would need to buy a subscription for the other two. Or you can buy one other subscription and set up the Home Console sharing with
the other two Xbox's. Just be aware that if your account is on their Xbox's, they have full access to your account unless you have security measures on your account for sign in or making purchases.

Here is all the information you need pertaining to Home Console:
https://support.xbox.com/games/game-setup/my-home-xbox

 

Hey, basically you need two gold memberships to cover 4 consoles as they don't do the family membership anymore. Saves you from reading the wordier posts.

 

Thanks guys.

Summary

Set Kid A Xbox as Home and sign in as me. Then sign Kid A in.

Get Kid B his own Gold subscription

Sign in as me on my console, then Kid A can share my subscription even though I've signed out of Kid A's console.

Think thats right!