Microsoft will now allow sharing of digital games and apps for XboxOne
In a post on the Xbox Wire site, Microsoft Xbox exec Marc Whitten wrote that anyone can start playing digital games loaded on an Xbox One console by signing in with their Xbox Live gamertag, even if the owner of that console is not signed in with his own Xbox Live account. He added:
Because your digital games go with you, you can also use and share digital games when you sign in to another console. And, if you happen to buy a digital game when you are signed in on your friend’s console, your game will also be available on your Home Xbox One console for anyone to use.
People who have a paid Xbox Live Gold account will also be able to share features made just for those subscribers, such as multiplayer online gaming and access to streaming video apps, with anyone who uses the console. Microsoft is calling the program Home Gold. Whitten writes:
If you’re an Xbox Live Gold member, an unlimited number of people can enjoy many benefits of Xbox Live Gold while they are using your Home Xbox One console. Friends and family will simply create their own account and gamertag and be able to enjoy Xbox Live online multiplayer gaming and access to entertainment apps.
Those benefits continue even if the Xbox One owner with the Xbox Live Gold account is not signed in. Also, those same Xbox Live Gold members can head to a friend's house and play co-op multiplayer on their friend's console even if that person is not an Xbox Live Gold member.
Finally, if you already are an Xbox Live Gold member on your Xbox 360, you can use that same account on the Xbox One. In fact, that account can be used to sign onto both consoles at the same time. In March, Microsoft decided to discontinue the Xbox Live Family Pack plan for the Xbox 360, which offered four Xbox Live Gold 12 month subscriptions for the price that was less than two single Xbox Live Gold accounts. In an interview with Polygon today, Whitten said there are still no plans to bring the Family Plan back nor are there plans to offer something similar to Home Gold on the Xbox One to the many Xbox 360 owners.
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Fuzzeh_XPosted:
Not exactly a 360 on the whole policy lol but still cool even thiugh it's different.
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