Xbox One Home Gold

[Adam91]

 

 

Microsoft's Xbox chief Marc Whitten posted on xbox.com that a digital sharing system will be coming to Xbox One called "Home Gold". Not long after E3 Microsoft reversed a lot of their policies after a high amount of negative feed back from their fan base one of the features they removed was family sharing, a feature that allowed an Xbox One user to access games from their friends library if they chose to share it with them.

 

Well Microsoft seems to be bringing this feature or a similar feature to the Xbox One which will allow users to access a friends game library from their account. 

 

Slashgear article. 

 

Home Gold was hinted at earlier this year at E3, and now we have the full details. Although called Home Gold, the feature isn’t necessarily limited to one’s physical home, but instead is applicable to those who are using the Xbox One with the Live Gold subscriber. At the subscriber’s home, the Xbox One console can be setup to enable Live Gold features to other residents regardless of whether the subscriber is logged in to his or her account.

 

Elsewhere, the subscriber can log into their account on a different console (such as at a friend’s house) and extend those same Live Gold features to the other users. Benefits of this include multi-player gaming and access to the entertainment apps. For the gamer’s primary (home) Xbox One, Home Gold is extended to an unlimited number of gamers. Elsewhere, those using the console will have access to the Gold features while the subscriber is logged in.

 

Home Gold aside, Microsoft also detailed the sharing of digital games, which is available amongst the users in one’s home. A single library can harbor games purchased by multiple users, and those users can then log in and play one of those games, even if the original buyer isn’t logged into his or her account.

 

Buying a game on a different Xbox One while signed in will result in the game being made available on the gamer’s own console, and a gamer’s digital downloads can be played on a friend’s console by signing in. The statement also specifies that most of the digital games don’t require the gamer to be connected to the Internet, but that the “experience” is better if one is.

 

 

IGN video. 

 

 

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[Cooliest]

Sounds almost identical to how it works now. Except he didn't talk anything about Hard Disc games. Can we exchange those with friends without having to pay a price or what?

[I_Make_Big_Boom]

So this is basically the Family Sharing feature that was stripped away a couple months ago? Sounds good.

[Adam91]

Sounds almost identical to how it works now. Except he didn't talk anything about Hard Disc games. Can we exchange those with friends without having to pay a price or what?

Sharing hard disc games will work the same as it does now on the 360, there will be no charges.

[The Stig]

I just wish that they bring back the movie theater avatar experience when watching netflix/xbox videos with friends.

 

 

 

 

 

[Frankenzer]

I was really expecting this to happen. 

 

Basically sharing games is the same as it is today with only minor changes