Microsoft will now allow sharing of digital games and apps for XboxOne

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While Microsoft has already announced that anyone can share physical discs made for the Xbox One with anyone else with no restrictions, the company decided to discontinue earlier plans to have up to 10 family members share games from one Xbox One user. Now it appears Microsoft has done a full 360 on this matter and will let Xbox One owners share digital games and apps with others.

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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Scared_of_WaterPosted:

tuneddown so is the full family sharing back?
like if my brother gets a game on his xbox one will I be able to play it even though ill be across the country at college?????????
if this is what im getting then this is awesome i was praying they would bring this back


No this is not family sharing, it's what the 360 does now. While you can access the games your brother buys you have to be sign into his account to play them.

Scared_of_WaterPosted:

DontBeStupid Hold on a minute, can you people not see that this is almost exactly the same as things are now, only games downloaded on other consoles don't give a license to that console, they give it straight to your home console. So they're effectively REMOVING the ability to give a friend or family member content that you own by license transferring or downloading on their console, this is actually a BAD thing.


I picked up on that too

AlbericiPosted:

About time! They must of hired a real gamer.

TaigaAisakaPosted:

Didn't they announce this before when they first scrapped the DRM? I remember reading something about this. Either way I don't download many games so this doesn't really affect me.

BozzzPosted:

Good move by them to allow people to do this

-CPPosted:

Doesn't matter to me; all things I purchase are mine.

DontBeStupidPosted:

Hold on a minute, can you people not see that this is almost exactly the same as things are now, only games downloaded on other consoles don't give a license to that console, they give it straight to your home console. So they're effectively REMOVING the ability to give a friend or family member content that you own by license transferring or downloading on their console, this is actually a BAD thing.

Dr-JPosted:

awesome. better than lisence transfering

tuneddownPosted:

so is the full family sharing back?
like if my brother gets a game on his xbox one will I be able to play it even though ill be across the country at college?????????
if this is what im getting then this is awesome i was praying they would bring this back

Flog_GnawPosted:

This sounds awesome


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