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Hennie Jaffe

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Aug 2, 2024, 3:28:33 AM8/2/24

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Xbox Live Home Gold lets you set one Xbox One as your home Xbox, so that anybody logged into it, whether or not they have Gold themselves, can have your Gold privileges. Is it possible to set my One as the home machine, log in two non-Gold users, then log in on another Xbox with my Gold account, so that all three of us get Gold privileges with only my account? What if the second (non-home) Xbox is a 360?

The Home Gold counts as you being logged in to that console. Note they can use netflix and you can use multiplayer. But even then i have to be signed for any gold stuff to work for my wife. She has her own account that has apps but signs in as me and then continues to sign in as her. When i play defiance i have to resign in to the ONe after i finish to play Titanfall.

According to Xbox Support, the scenario you describe should work. Any account logged in to your home Xbox One (whether you are logged in or not) will have access to anything that requires a Gold account, and as long as you have an active Gold subscription any Xbox One you log in to will allow you to use Gold features as well.

Xbox Live Gold sharing doesn't exist on the 360, so that should work the same as it always has - any account that has a Gold subscription will be able to use Gold features, and all other accounts won't.

From MSFT's side, I think it's more about adding value to their already excellent Xbox Live Gold service, and if they attract more customers to subscribe to Gold because of the features they're adding, great.

On the other hand, I've been a cord cutter for years. Why pay for a ton of content I don't care about when I can get most of the content I want for free? The rest of the content I want can either be watched via my quite cheap streaming-only Netflix account or by purchasing DVDs.

This Verizon FiOS deal doesn't do much for me. It's much the same as the Hulu deal with MSFT where you can only access the Hulu content on XBL Gold if you subscribe to Hulu Plus (which I have no reason or desire to do). Because the cable companies refuse to change, they're becoming irrelevant.

Yeah, well, it might not do a lot of that. I picked up an xbox at a garage sale with the intention of using it solely for streaming netflix. I didn't know that you had to subscribe to MS's service to be able to do that. It angered me, as Netflix doesn't (or shouldn't) actually use the xbox live service, doesn't add any value to the netflix service, almost doubles the cost of the service, and I'd get to give yet more money to Microsoft in exchange for exactly nothing.

The xbox went to the goodwill, and I've warned a few other people who were thinking of doing the same thing to avoid using the xbox for it. If Microsoft was a little less greedy, they may have actually sold me some games and made some money from me, instead of leaving a bad taste in my mouth.

I think you vastly underestimate how much you'd pay on an a la carte basis for the niche channels you list. AMC Networks has operating expenses of about $750 million. They obviously get revenue from ad sales, but the bulk of their revenue comes from cable operators. If instead of receiving payments from the 96 million US households that get AMC programming, they had to be paid by the households that actually want AMC programming (their highest-rated program, The Walking Dead, drew 6.6 million viewers Sunday night), the costs would be very high.

Cable providers just don't git it. All there off brand channels are only financially successful because of bundling channels. If you AMC's viewership is 96 Million, just think how few other really off brand cable channels reach.

I cut the cord about 2-3 years ago. Subscribed to NetFlix. Haven't looked back, doubt I will. Wake me up with HBO and Showtime(the only two cable offerings I really miss) are available w/o a monthly subscription to the crap that currently goes with them, and I'm in.

Would like to make a post about xbox .During the summer I paid for internet for the house so my boys had a gold membership that stopped in august .I find out today that my credit card has been charged the last 2 months for live which we do not use nor new we had .I run my laptop off my phone .If you think you have to have live I would wipe out your credit card info from your unit as I was told by Microsoft ANYONE can get into it and you to will be paying someone's funtime .Microsoft being the greedy people they are would of course not refund my money .

I'm a bit confused by the article. I think the author is ranting a little too much against cable companies and just not appreciating what is happening here. Picture this: Your house doesn't have every single room wired with a coaxial cable. You don't want to spend a ton of money wiring your house. You've got a room you would like your kids to watch Nick, Nick Jr, or Cartoon Network but this room has no coaxial. Now here's where it gets interesting. Your Xbox 360 is streaming live TV through the Internet. This isn't pre-recorded data files sitting on a Netflix or Hulu server. This is LIVE TV being streamed straight to your Xbox 360 through Wfi. In other words, this is (as far as I know) the first time you've been able to watch cable TV wirelessly. Sure there's the added expense of Xbox Live Gold but you can get those cards cheap if you look for discounts/sales AND you're not renting a cable box for $5-$10 a month.

I'm not implying that the internet is magic... I know what's involved. However i'm willing to bet that the application itself doesn't tunnel through live at all, not unless they using some kind of server based web page pre-rendering like Amazon Silk to compensate for the Xbox's limited memory capacity (it's not hard to chew up 512mb of ram with a browser).

Having to pay for a Gold account AND pay for internet AND pay for Netflix just so I can access my Netflix on my console was enough for me to just let my Xbox live run out. I haven't looked back since, I've been watching all my old DVD's on my big screen lately.

I let my gold run out not long ago and have no plans to pay for it again. IE sucks so this really doesn't effect me, browsing the internet it completely pointless on a console for me because my computer is in the same room.

So how many people own an xbox and DON'T have gold? One of the reasons I play on the 360 is because I like the controller better and I like Xbox LIVE a ton more than PSN. I game with friends and enjoy online gameplay so naturally I just get Gold and every year there is some sort of sale where you can get 13 months of Gold for like $30. Having a 360 and not having Gold is almost like owning a PC and not having it hooked up to the internet.

Granted, I've been planning to switch to PC for a long time now and that will hopefully be coming to fruition soon, but money is money and Microsoft is charging for the same service that PSN and Steam are offering for free. I used to pay for Gold just to play with friends but I simply can't make myself do that any more. Even if I wasn't planning on switching, I wouldn't pay anymore for Gold. That's too much for things that should be free. Two or three years ago I could have made a case for Gold, but not with all of the Steam sales going on and the fact that the PS3 doesn't make you wait an entire minute or two to see your list of games.

That is pretty silly, but it is in line with MS's philosophy regarding content availability on XBL. After requiring Gold for Netflix, I would be surprised if they offered IE to everyone. Won't get me to re-up my Gold subscription, that's for sure.

@believer258: You could say the same thing about Giant Bomb - other sites offer similar content for free - it's just a matter of what you're willing to spend money on. I can't believe people who would pay $50 a year so they can watch TNT's in archives and listen to Jeff talk about video games in his bedroom, wouldn't be willing to pay the same amount in order to play with friends on Gold.

Anyway as I said - it's just preference. If I didn't actively hate the PSN and how the PS3 dashboard worked, invites, friends list, messages - all of it literally - then I'd switch in an instant and play the same games with no gold cost. I own a PS3 actually and when I was moving from US to Europe I just brought it along, got a new power cable and was back to playing games in Europe on it, whereas I had to buy a whole new 360. There are pro's and cons but at the end of the day I don't want to have to use the XMB which I find to be awful.

There's a pretty good article on Kotaku recently going in depth on the differences between Xbox Live and PSN Plus right now. I've been an Xbox Live Gold member since before they were even calling it that and although I own a PS3 the only experience I have with Plus is that free trial we all got last year after the security disaster.

However, reading through the list of just what I'm getting with Live, it's striking just how much of it are services I couldn't care less about. I don't need to use Netflix on Xbox because * everything else* supports it now, the plethora of ESPN crap announced at every E3 generally doesn't even make it to this country, and given how slow the Xbox Dashboard is of late why on earth would I want to access the internet on it?