need help understanding xbox live

[karlgaming]

I have 3 gamers in my house who all want to play online with their own screen name or gamer tag, do i have to pay for an individual membership for each person or just ine membership for the whole family?

 

[Methoes]

Yes - everyone will have to pay for their own membership. But if you get the family pack it's a bit cheaper.

 

[mitch079]

In reference to the family pack, here is the FAQ from Microsoft:

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/Live/JoinLive/FamilyPackFAQ

It's $100/year. Normal 1 year price for Live is $60 for a year for an individual so you would save $80 by going the family pack for 3, $140 for 4. You can find sales on this site but the lowest I think they drop is to $35/year. Each created account should get a free month of Gold so you should probably use that first and then sign up for the family pack.

Also sign up your accounts at http://rewards.xbox.com/ before getting the family pack. You'll get 400 points ($5) rewarded to the account you sign up under.

 

[thrustbucket]

I believe one cheap way you can do the family pack is to just find a good deal on a year of live gold and buy more than one card (I usually buy from crazygametime.com) Then add all the codes so you have 2 or 3 years or so. Then call Microsoft and ask them to convert it to a family pack. It will basically cut the months you have remaining in half and allow you to add 3 more people.

 

[karlgaming]

Thanks, ill sign up foe rewards and then pay 100