June 22nd 2010 3:51 pm PT

Shows you how greedy MS is. Everything I’ve seen lets you get a cheaper price for adding more things. Such as on Ebay you buy two items from the same seller and get a discount. Or another site I was at with accounts it was $10 an account OR $15 for two.

Typical MS. Probably why next gen I am sticking with Sony. More so to because after hearing Kinetic probably will be around $150 I gave up on it. I want it but its not worth $150. >.>

I think it’s ridiculous that MS expects us to pay for multiple Gold accounts on a single console in the first place! Gold membership should apply to the console, not individual accounts. This is just another cash cow in Microsoft’s stable.

My son and I have separate XBox Live accounts on two different consoles in our house… I, too, would like to find out if they can be merged. Although I tend to buy my renewals from Amazon when they sell them for $30 every now and then,it MIGHT be worth something to hook up my wife and daughter as well, but they play so seldom, I don’t know if it is worth the $40 increase over what we normally pay for the two of us per year…

Good idea, but still too pricey perhaps.

Also, when does that ESPN deal kick in? Dish Network and Disney are fighting and they just turned off the HD feeds of ABC Family, ESPNNews, and the Disney HD channels (ESPN and ESPN2 still on in HD….. I’m wondering if the ESPN and ESPN 2 content is next and want to have a backup ..I’m assuming the coming XBox ESPN content will be HD Quality)

This is something that I will look foward too, especially the dispensing of Micrsoft Points. I don’t want to purchase any games with my daughter’s account, because of license issues ( I have to transfer South Park). The family pack will be good, for my daughter, stepson, my husband, and especially myself ( I game the most). Plus my account finishes on November so this will come in handy.

So if I had the primary account, I could have it setup so that none of the accounts under mine would be able to buy DLC unless I authorized it, right?

Also, I’d be able to “gift” points to the subaccounts? Sounds perfect for me and my friends. It would save them money and they couldn’t rack up a huge DLC bill on my tab…they could pay for what ever points they wanted to use and I could send them points as they pay.

Sounds like an awesome way for a family or a small close group of people to share the expense of Live. Very cool, Microsoft… now don’t jack it up ;?)

For this to work, we need shared DLC across family members. I want my family members to have access to all purchases I have made. Even purchases before the upgrade. If it could merge all purchases by all accounts into one, that would be great. Also, we need a better way of sharing DLC licenses to all consoles owned by the main account holder. I want to be able to play games like battlefield 1943 with my son, without having to purchase it twice or worry about which account purchased it or which console it was downloaded on first.

@RuairiAU Great point RuairiAU.
An example:
I try to let my daughter play Fable 2 on our 2nd console. I’ve downloaded all the DLC to that console. It works fine for me. But of course it doesn’t work for her because I purchased the DLC on our first console with my account. Argh!

This is good for me and my daughter, I can pass MSP that I haven’t used to her account so she can get some avatar items. I am planning on connecting accounts with my twin and her daughter so this will be good for me as well. I was wondering if there could be 1 primary and a secondary account that could manage billing as well as my sis like to share our credit cards.

Can this only be done on one Xbox or do you just need to connect the profiles?

This is a great idea! Most of my questions have been asked by others already, but I have another:

How easy will it be to change which Gamertags are included in the family membership?

Say, for example, my eldest son gets kicked out of home (as all (most?) kids eventually do), can we easily remove him from the Family, and get him to buy his own separate Gold, and still have him keep stuff he’s purchased while under the Family?

Similarly, if a new addition to the family comes along, is it easy to create them a Gamertag and add them to an existing Family membership?

@sho220
You can get them in a bundlepack with the Move Wand, Subcontroller, an Eyetoy and a Demo for much less than Kinect, so unless you already have an eyetoy and like exposing yourself to children online, Move is cheaper as a set.
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Seriously though there should be less kids online, not more.

Is this definately coming to the UK too?

And as for those people already slamming Kinect before it’s even released, are you for real?

My small children will love this. If the software support is there and indie developers can get their hands on it, it will be huge. It’ll certainly stop those low-resolution Wii-tards from bleating on about their toy and the 370th re-incarnation of Mario.

A valiant effort but still a failure to me. I do not want a family account, I want a CONSOLE account. Basically, Gold assigned to my consoles serial number so ANYONE signed in on that console logs in as a Gold account.

I have several friends who do not have Gold, quite frankly they do not even have an Internet connection at home except perhaps on their mobile phones, so it makes no sense to buy a Gold account. However they would like to be able to use Gold features when logged in on my console connected to broadband.

Even a 1 month account is expensive if they only use it at best 1 week out of that month. I would happily lose the ability to use my Gold account anywhere if it meant I could assign it to my console instead allowing my friends to use Gold features when logged in on it.

Your tiered Memberships idea sounds the biggest bollocks I’ve ever read. The only ay to fix it is to completly destroy it. MS would NEVER give anything for free, ever, except free dlc.

They tired to do tier level membershiups before a long time ago here there was something before Silver, but they scrapped it and went to Silver and Gold. It’s easier with the wto levels anyway: cheapskates who should fork out for oodies and Customers that get the stuff.

And don’t bring PSN plus into this either.

@chiruno99 it’s always been Silver and Gold since the launch of Xbox 360. Maybe there were discussions, but when Xbox 360 hit the market this is the way it was.

You don’t have any reasonable argument against my idea except that you think that Silver members are “cheapskates who should fork out for oodies”. Choose a four-letter word and shove it somewhere dark and cold. I would “fork out” if Microsoft gave me a choice that was more suitable for my needs. If I could pay for online multiplayer only, I would. But Microsoft doesn’t offer me that choice. So, you think I’m a cheapskate because I refuse to pay for services I’ll never use. I say I’m an intelligent shopper.

I can, will, and did bring PSN into this because it’s in direct competition with Xbox Live.

Rofl

So.. RidinSlow just put your previous ‘fact’ to bed, so you ignore that and focus on the more humorous side of his post. Then you post that “you don’t pay for gold, you don’t get discounts” which, while generally true, you just happen to post the day after the Sonic 19th anniversary offers were presented to both Gold AND Silver members.

Then you go on to say “If you love PSN so much then go on it” which is awfully similar to immature playground retorts. Then when I thought it couldn’t get better you pull out the punchline “I have both and they’re both full of kids and dicks alike”

Indeed… common denominator comes to mind…

GG