Game Pass Friends & Family is official - Microsoft launches in Ireland and Colombia

Game Pass is slowly devolving into access fee to pay for freeium games
 
The Xbox Live Gold to Game Pass exploit is still the better deal if used correctly.

Hope this is for the less tech savvy folk rather than Xbox potentially closing that option to try drive people towards this
 
Expensive for people in the same household :(

Well depends on how you look at it.

2 devices can share 1 normal GamePass account, but becomes a problem when you have 3 or more devices.

Looking at the price it fits perfectly:
The plan will let Xbox Games Pass members share the subscription with up to four others for €21.99 (R380) per month in Ireland and COP49,900 (R194) monthly in Colombia.

The pricing can work out to €4.40 (R76) and COP9,980 (R39) per person per month, if the five users all contribute to the subscription.
 
Well depends on how you look at it.

2 devices can share 1 normal GamePass account, but becomes a problem when you have 3 or more devices.

Looking at the price it fits perfectly:
I can understand but take my case, got two young kids. We all three use my pc and they have their own profiles to play games on ( steam lets you do this easilly at the same location and even 5 remote ) but they can't access the xbox library even though its on the same machine.
 
I can understand but take my case, got two young kids. We all three use my pc and they have their own profiles to play games on ( steam lets you do this easilly at the same location and even 5 remote ) but they can't access the xbox library even though its on the same machine.

They can. Set your system as home console.


Me and my wife share 1 GamePass Ultimate account across 2 Xboxes and a PC.
 
The Xbox Live Gold to Game Pass exploit is still the better deal if used correctly.

Hope this is for the less tech savvy folk rather than Xbox potentially closing that option to try drive people towards this

That doesn’t work for Cloud gaming.

Also it works across two consoles only. This will work across 5 users on any device.

Quite different.
 
They can. Set your system as home console.


Me and my wife share 1 GamePass Ultimate account across 2 Xboxes and a PC.

Doesn’t work across profiles on PC, you need to sign the same account in on each user profile.

EA Play only ever works for one user, which lets face it is where the real value lives on PC.

He doesn’t have an Xbox.
 
Doesn’t work across profiles on PC, you need to sign the same account in on each user profile.

EA Play only ever works for one user, which lets face it is where the real value lives on PC.

He doesn’t have an Xbox.

Well in that case its not really fair to compare a sub service with bought games(Steam/Epic) is it?

Steam : You buy games.
Xbox PC : you "rent" games.
 
Well in that case its not really fair to compare a sub service with a bought games is it?

Steam : You buy games.
Xbox PC : you "rent" games.

Problem is the licensing model is the same on Microsoft Store even for bought stuff.
 
Well in that case its not really fair to compare a sub service with bought games(Steam/Epic) is it?

Steam : You buy games.
Xbox PC : you "rent" games.
Well take other sub services : netflix etc. TBH, I think there shouldn't be any restrictions in a single household ie: one ip.
 
Ok pedantic

Steam : You buy limited use game licence
Xbox PC : you "rent" games.
In the end its a tool in the box and up to you what you are going to or not do with and about it. I mean a 10 min or less thought exercise on this should be more than enough.
 
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