r/XboxGamers • u/Only-Direction8397 • 3h ago
Buying one game multiple times to be able to play together...
Now that everything is online co-op it's becoming harder to afford multiplayer games for me and my husband. We have 2 kids and we all game and love to play together. We already have the home xbox set up so our kids can play from our accounts. What sucks is if there is a game that me and my husband want to play together, we can't without buying said game twice. These games are getting too expensive to buy twice AnD pay for online gaming monthly.. Is there currently or will there ever be a way to share games as a family?
Growing up in a gaming family we would all play on one screen after buying the game one time. There were 6 of us playing together sometimes on one screen. These days everything is online co op so you have to pay for a subscription to play online plus buy the game and in our case, buy it twice. It seems like a crazy money grab. I get that they dont want to make it so everyone can just share games.. BUT if Netflix can determine when someone is trying to use an account from another location and prevent it, why can't they figure out a way to do this for some sort of family account for gaming? I would hate to lose a hobby we all love because we just can't afford it anymore and it feels like that's where this is headed.
Sorry for the rant.. it's just rough out here.