XBox Live Gold on kid's account.

TATO DANIEL · Aug 27, 2015

Hi, I have got XBOX 360 and I want to buy Live Gold account for my 10 years old Son.

Is it possible to download games from Games with Gold even those with PGI 16 or 18 using his Live Gold account?

I would like to collect all the games from GwG and be able to play them on my own offline account.

Regards,

Daniel.

:)

TSForrest · Aug 27, 2015

2 Xbox ONE consoles in one house. How do I buy games for both consoles and with out buying 2 disk?

I found a workaround that lets my kids use my games on their Xbox, while I can still play the same games on my Xbox, even play Halo 5 Co-op with my kids on their Xbox (1 kid at a time for Halo 5, both kids for Halo 1-4), and me on my Xbox. Note, I have the only Live Gold account in our household. It's not the preferred solution for this (Yo, Microsoft, Family Gold Subscription, please!), however it works very well for 2 Xbox One consoles. Here's what I had to do...

(My Xbox)
1. Settings - Personalization - My home Xbox
- I removed my Live Gold account from "My home Xbox", leaving no account set for this.
2. Settings - Account - Sign-in, security & passkey
- Set my Live Gold account for "Instant sign-in"
3. Settings - Power & Startup - Turn off or restart - Restart now
- Rebooted Xbox for settings to take effect.

(Kids' Xbox)
I have my Gold account and the regular accounts for my wife and kids set up to login.
1. Settings - Personalization - My home Xbox
- Using my Gold account, I selected "Make this my home Xbox"
2. Settings - Account - Sign-in, security & passkey
- I set one of my kids' accounts for "Instant sign-in".
3. Settings - Power & Startup - Turn off or restart - Restart now
- Rebooted Xbox for settings to take effect.

My Xbox now has no account set with "My home Xbox", but since it has my Gold account set for Instant sign-in, it will still automatically have access to the games, movies, and other content. However, it won't automatically install purchased games, but that is easily remedied by accessing "My games & apps" from the Xbox home screen, where I will see newly purchased games under the "Ready to Install" section where I can easily install them.

A Live Gold account can only have one Xbox selected as its "home Xbox", however, on that home Xbox, all other accounts that sign-in will have access to the content purchased by the Gold account. This is what allows my kids to access my Gold account content on their Xbox. In addition to the "home Xbox", any purchases made by a Gold account will follow that account to any "non-home Xbox" where the account is logged-in. Since my account is still set for "Instant sign-in" on my Xbox, my purchases are always available, unless I log out. Other people can still login to my Xbox and use the content I have purchased, as long as my Gold account stays logged in, too. If, for some reason, I login on my Kids' Xbox, it will log me out on my Xbox, but I just log back in when I am done playing with my kids on their Xbox. This let's me play Halo 5 Guardians in Co-op mode with me logged in on my Xbox, and one of my kids logged in on their Xbox, which has access to my Gold account content, because that is my "Home Xbox". So far, I have not encountered any complications with this setup. If I do, I will amend my post here.

Good luck! I still have not found a way to share content across three Xbox consoles simultaneously, however, this does work for two consoles, even if they are not in the same location. I have also been told that some cablemodems and broadband routers may have trouble with two Xbox consoles accessing Xbox Live games simultaneously from the same residence, but I have Comcast Xfinity Internet service using the WiFi gateway they provided (Cisco DPC3941T wireless gateway/router), and I have not had any trouble playing Xbox Live games on both consoles at the same time.

-TSForrest

leebroath · Aug 27, 2015

1 Gold Account for the whole family

Bit of good news,
I have just been reading the new Xbox Mag that quote:
'One Xbox Live Gold Account for the whole house, so no need for upgrading the whole family

Nice touch and will save some family's money for all the kids to be able to go Multiplayer

Alliance United · Aug 27, 2015

Howdy!

If your son has his account setup as the console being his home console then yes, you can use his Gold membership while on the same console to download and play the free-games with gold. However, seeing that your account is offline and would like to purchase/download
the games using his account then you would need to allow him to download games for older age. Since its limited if you leave it as is now. You can login with your Adult account to change the Account settings on your son's account here to allow purchases and
change content age:
account.xbox.com/.../Settings along here too:
account.xbox.com/.../ContentAccess

LegoNinja187

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.

RandyAU93

If you're using two separate consoles in the same home, it is possible for a single Xbox Live Gold subscription to cover two accounts. Let's call your consoles Xbox A and Xbox B, and your kids are also A and B. Let's say Kid A has the Xbox Live Gold subscription
on their account.

Now, for this to work, Kid A would set Xbox B as their account's Home Xbox. Then, Kid A would sign into Xbox A and play their games. With the Home Xbox setting in this manner, Kid B could sign onto Xbox B and access everything connected to Kid A's account,
including their Gold subscription.

To your specific questions each user will need their own separate Microsoft account (which they apparently already have) connected to their own separate Epic account. The Gold account only enables multiplayer access, which is required on Xbox platforms,
and does not govern how the Epic account works or connects. With each child having their own account, each has their own game saves and content saves, and those game saves are stored in the Xbox Cloud. If they do go to another console (you upgrade consoles
at home, or if they visit a friend) their progress and content stays with them as soon as they sign in.

Mikeysoonerfan

We run 2 xboxes all the time, basically we have our front room xbox set as the home xbox for the account with gold. Any other child accounts and other adult silver accounts can play on this xbox with out the gold account being signed in. The backroom xbox
is setup for the gold account to log into, this xbox is not setup for any account as home. So the only account that can really use it is the one that has gold which is my account. So I can play in the backroom while the kids play in the front. So what we do
if both kids want to play on separate xboxes? I sign my gold account into the backroom and then allow one of the kids to also sign in. As long as the gold account is logged into the backroom both kids can play on either xbox. As for content it needs to be
bought and downloaded by the account that has gold for everyone to have access to it on the home xbox. Hope that kinda gives you a picture of how it works.

Lancel0tDuLac

Yes that would be correct Lancel0t, that would be the method to take if you don't want to be signed in at all and have games on both consoles.

That is what I thought, thank you for confirming.

My follow-up question to that has to deal with Xbox Live Gold. I have a subscription to Xbox Live Gold with my account. Obviously, in order to take advantage of the Games with Gold feature on both Xboxes, I would have to get an Xbox Live Gold subscription
with the second account as well. But I'm curious if the second Gold account for Console B would allow the kids to play the games I've already downloaded with my current account on Console B or if it would only apply to new games going forward? Basically,
would having a second Gold account give my kids access to Games with Gold games downloaded from my original account or would I still have to sign in on console B for the 40+ games that I have already downloaded with my Games with Gold?

JosefLBohorquez

Hi and thanks for reaching Microsoft Xbox gamer's community. My name is Josef.
I'm an Independent Advisor and a Microsoft Xbox user like you.

Hope you're doing great today Jodie

A way to share only 1 Xbox live gold subscription is creating a family group and add the kids there
https://account.microsoft.com/family/home

In that way you can cancel one subscription and the kids can use the Xbox live gold subscription on their accounts

XBox Live Gold on kid's account.