Microsoft set to launch “Xbox Live Gold Family??? subscription in November

Xbox Live for the whole family! Who needs a dinner table to bond?

You know how it is… One person in the house has an Xbox Live subscription but you have multiple gamers in the house. You sit down and make profiles for everyone but it has to be that one login to be able to play online or download content which generally means you’re stuck like Chuck if you have a saved game on a local profile that you’d like to be able to access or want to be able to import your Gamertag at a friend’s house to play online.

There’s always been a demand for some sort of Family packaging so that one household can have multiple logins without having to pay $49.99 for each individual and now it would appear Microsoft has taken notice.

The official announcement lists that the Xbox Live Gold Family subscription will be available for $99.99 come November. It will allow up to four separate Gamertags for the once price. One of the Gamertags will serve as a “master??? login meaning that only the “master??? login will be billed for DLC or additional paid features. It will also allow the master account access to the new Family Center feature which will the main account holder to monitor the play activities of the three additional accounts as well as dividing and managing Microsoft Points amongst the others.

That might be enough for most people but there’s an added bonus: Once you’ve created the accounts on the primary account holder’s Xbox, you can then import them to other Xboxs. The only caveat is that the accounts have to remain within the same country as the primary account.

Personally, there won’t be much use for this Family account but when you boil it down, you and three friends can get your Xbox Live Gold subscription for $25 apiece… And that’s saying something for the guys down at Microsoft.

I can see a few drawbacks to the idea but until there’s some real facts in regards to those concerns, they may not even be a concern with the final product.

So there, we’ve given you an idea what to get your family for Christmas. You’re welcome.

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