Yesterday while turning on the 360 in anticipation of continuing my campaign on COD Black Ops. I saw an advertisement for XBOX Live Gold Family pack. I had never heard of that before and was curious because in my household we have 2-360's and 2 gold accounts for me and my son. I saw where they listing it for $99.00 per year so I was naturally curious since we have 2 accounts coming due in the next month, and they are going to cost me $120.00 this year because of the $10 increase.
I started reading more into it and visited the XBOX live page on the web and here are a few of the FAQ's.
1. The Xbox LIVE Gold Family Pack offers four 12-month Xbox LIVE Gold memberships for less than the price of two. Family Pack subscribers also receive exclusive benefits and family conveniences, including access to the new Family Center for family account and online settings management, Activity Monitoring reports on Xbox.com, the ability to purchase and gift Microsoft Points Allowances to your children, and family-friendly content and discounts.
2. We will give existing Xbox LIVE Gold members a prorated discount on the purchase of a Family Pack. For each month remaining on your current Xbox LIVE Gold subscription, we will reduce the purchase price of a Family Pack by $5. For example, if you have six months of your Gold subscription remaining, you qualify for a $30 discount and will only be charged $69.99 at the time of purchase. If you have 20 months or more of your current Xbox LIVE Gold subscription remaining, you can upgrade to an Xbox LIVE Gold Family Pack for free. You will not receive a refund for any remaining subscription time in excess of 20 months.
3. if a Family Pack member leaves home to go to college, they can simply recover their account on a different console and will still remain a part of the Xbox LIVE Gold Family Pack, as long as they reside in the same country as the primary account holder.
4. MS Points added to the account can spread out over all of the individual accounts.
5. The primary account holder will have the ability to customize the parental controls and other settings of the Family Pack members’ accounts.
6. Purchased content such as games and movies are licensed both to the console it was purchased on, and the individual Gold member that purchased it. So if, for example, your child were to buy an Xbox LIVE Arcade game on your home console, anyone on your console can play it. Additionally, if they leave for college, they could recover their account on another Xbox 360 in their dorm room and be able to play the game when logged into their account from that Xbox 360.
7. While an Xbox LIVE Gold Family Pack utilizes unified billing, the primary Family Pack member has the option to purchase Microsoft points and give them to other Family Pack members, who can use them to buy movies, shows, games and more on Xbox LIVE.
All in all it turns out to be a good deal for me. I really don't need 4 Gold accounts. I only need two but buying them this way its still cheaper than purchasing them at the $59 a piece price tag.
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