Xbox One Xbox One: Sharing Digital Games and Gold

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Looks like Microsoft has released additional info on how the Xbox One Digital sharing will work when the system launches. Little change up, but its interesting their is no mention of Xbox family share. Guess you have to be logged in at a friend's house.


Our goal is for Xbox One to be the hub for games and entertainment in your living room. It’s a future where everyone in your home has a personalized account with all the content they love front and center. To do that, we had to think about how the system would work and thrive in one of the busiest rooms in the house that many people share. We wanted to create a system that was highly personalized but also social. It’s about celebrating your individual tastes but also making it welcoming and easy for people to share. Here’s what that looks like.

Sharing Digital Games

Everyone in your home can share digital games with each other. Your Xbox One can become your virtual game library filled with digital games that different people in the home bought. Anyone can pick any digital game on your Xbox One, sign in with their own gamertag and play – even if the owner is not signed in. Like physical media, you can also play many digitally downloaded games without being online, although experiences will be best when connected to the internet and Xbox Live. Finally, when you purchase a digital game, you can start playing even before the entire game downloads.

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.

Sharing digital games is a great feature of Xbox One, and we’re also making it possible for Xbox Live Gold members to share some of the best benefits of Gold.
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Sharing Xbox Live Gold Benefits

At E3 this year, we briefly highlighted a new benefit we’re bringing to Xbox Live Gold members on Xbox One. We’re calling it Home Gold. It will enable any Xbox Live Gold member on Xbox One to extend many Gold features to others at no additional cost. One Xbox Live Gold account delivering great benefits to everyone in the home.

Here’s how Xbox Live Gold members can extend Gold benefits including multiplayer gaming, Game DVR, SmartMatch and access to entertainment apps and experiences, including The NFL on Xbox, Skype, Internet Explorer:

At home. You can set up your console at home so that anyone who uses that console will enjoy multiplayer gaming and access to entertainment apps – even if you are not home or logged in.

On the go. You can log in at a friend’s house and everyone there can enjoy multiplayer gaming and access to entertainment apps while you are logged in.

At Home with Xbox One
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.
Friends coming over to play? No problem. They can log in with their own gamertag and play online multiplayer. Even if you sign off, your friends and family can enjoy multiplayer gaming while they are playing on your Home Xbox One console.

At a Friend’s House with Xbox One

On Xbox One if you are an Xbox Live Gold member, you will be able to go to a friend’s house and play co-op multiplayer– even if your friend is not a Gold subscriber. Once you log in with your Xbox Live Gold account, everyone using that console can access multiplayer and entertainment apps for as long as you are logged in.

At Home with Xbox 360 and Xbox One

If you are an Xbox Live Gold member today, you are already set for Xbox One. Your Xbox Live Gold membership for Xbox 360 will seamlessly become an Xbox Live Gold account on your Xbox One and you will be able to enjoy Xbox Live Gold features on either console. You can even be logged in to Xbox 360 and Xbox One at the same time. Home Gold benefits are exclusively for Xbox One.

What Home Gold Means for the Xbox One Experience

With Xbox One everyone in your home has a personalized account, which will enable powerful and personal experiences, and that’s one of the reasons why we wanted to create Home Gold. It means that your account and your gamertag are truly yours. You don’t have to share your gamertag for multiplayer gaming with others in your home, or see recommendations for your kid’s cartoons next to the recommended first-person shooter for you. It also means that you can introduce new games and enjoy multiplayer with friends while they are at your house. Last but not least, it also means that when you buy one Xbox Live Gold membership, multiple people can enjoy the best benefits of Xbox Live Gold on your Xbox One at no additional charge.
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Via: Xbox Wire
 
BlackBox said:
This is all exciting! Can I have mine now please? :rolleyes:
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Sounding good although I have one scenario this doesn't cover. What If you have multiple consoles?

So I have 2 Xbox One consoles in the house can I sign into one and my son can sign into the other and play on Live?

If so how does that work? What is we want to play the same game with or without the other?
 
AvalonX said:
Sounding good although I have one scenario this doesn't cover. What If you have multiple consoles?

So I have 2 Xbox One consoles in the house can I sign into one and my son can sign into the other and play on Live?

If so how does that work? What is we want to play the same game with or without the other?
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You know, that's a really, really good question. I've four 360's in my house now. Living Room, and one in each bedroom. I'm interested to find out as to how that would work.
 
BlackBox said:
You know, that's a really, really good question. I've four 360's in my house now. Living Room, and one in each bedroom. I'm interested to find out as to how that would work.
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For 360's I think it stays the same. I have the same issue, family will still want to play games online but this Gold Sharing does not apply to 360's. Now the question is how does it work exactlywith 2 Xbox Ones?
 
My plan:

Convince my cousin who is also an avid gamer to make his home console mine and my home console his, then, we alternate buying new games and get double the collection by always signing in to play...which we do anyways.
 
vertigo1 said:
My plan:

Convince my cousin who is also an avid gamer to make his home console mine and my home console his, then, we alternate buying new games and get double the collection by always signing in to play...which we do anyways.
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I wonder how that will work with the Live Sharing? I guess you do not plan on having more than one person get on live through your "home console" then it doesn't matter but for me I have 2 kids so I don't think they can share those games unless I log in. It's a little confusing.
 
Yeah while Microsoft did give some good details about the whole thing they didn't quite specify in certain areas such as these, perhaps there will be better information later on but we'll have to wait and see what happens next I suppose.
 
BlackBox said:
You know, that's a really, really good question. I've four 360's in my house now. Living Room, and one in each bedroom. I'm interested to find out as to how that would work.
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...that is a lot of Xboxes you got in there.

But i think that you just need to connect all the accounts as they were in family, After that you would be able to play your games easily.
 
I do not really get how the digital sharing works. Is it between different X1s in one household or is just in a single X1? if it's just a single X1, then it works the same way as the 360... in the 360 if someone buys a digital game, every account in that 360 can play it without the owner being signed in. If it's sharing with more than one console, it gets more interesting.
 
This is definitely some interesting news and it seems like Microsoft are trying to get back into public favor with this. I'm sure however many were hoping that this feature wouldn't require Xbox Live Gold but by the looks of things, everything will require gamers to be subscribed to Gold. I still can't wait to see how this actually works though when the Xbox One is finally released sometime later this year.
 
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