See above. During the open beta (not the server slam) I linked my battle.net account to my xbox profile and installed D4 on both xbox and pc. Cross-platform and cloud saves worked well. My spouse created and linked a battle.net account to an xbox profile and couch co-op went well also.
She will only play on console, but I would like to co-op on console and also solo on my pc. My question is: how many copies of the game am I expected to purchase for this? Since the beta was free, I have no idea how this will work upon actual release.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
Depends on if she plans to play without you or not. To play as a co-op partner all you need is a battlenet account, however, if she plans on playing on her own, she would need a copy. If you don’t plan on playing the game on xbox on your own, what you can do is buy the xbox copy for her and you can have the PC version on your account. This will allow you to play as a co-op partner on the console while you both have a platform for solo play.
One copy for each platform you want to play on.
So, one copy for XBox and one copy for PC.
Your progression will be saved across battle.net, so whatever you accomplish on PC will carry over to XBox, and visa versa.
I think, and don’t quote me on it, as long as you are both on XBox, you can share the game. But if you want to co-op through PC and XBox, she may need her own copy linked to both her XBox Live and Battle.net accounts.
So, 2 copies for sure, possibly three.
That’s how it normally works. OP sets the Xbox as their home/primary console, and then any other user on that console can play digital products owned by OP’s account. Being a purely online game though there might be some wrinkles, for example SO may need to have XBL Gold if they wanted to play on their own.
Thanks, folks. I will get it on xbox so we can both play, and see if I can install it on my pc with the linked account. Then I can decide if I really need another copy to play solo on pc since the couch co-op is the most important feature for us.
I do wonder if I will be missing content if I don’t get xbox gold. I don’t typically subscribe and didn’t need it for the beta so I’m not too worried about it, but articles say it will be needed for “some” multiplayer features. If it’s PVP, then I can do without. If it’s something else like world bosses than that’s a good bit of missing content.
I’m in a similar situation. I will buy the PC version and my live-in son-in-law will buy the PS5. We have different work schedules so I want to know if I can get on his PS5 on my battlenet account solo instead of couch co-op if I want to play that platform instead of my PC for a bit.
Hope this helps.
I am a little surprised that the details of exactly how this works has not been responded to by Blizzard and pinned on the forum. There is a definitive answer one way or the other, we should not, I respectfully suggest, have to guess what “rights” come with the game.
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Two Xboxes or two PlayStations can share one copy of the game digitally. My wife, kids and myself play together this way. I set their Xbox as my home Xbox, and I play on another Xbox. Anyone who has an account on my home Xbox will be able to share the benefits of me being a gold subscriber while I play on another Xbox, we have done this for years. It works the same way on PlayStation. If this were an Xbox play anywhere game, you would also be able to only have one copy to also play on PC, I don’t think D4 is going to be a play anywhere game though.
You can share your Xbox Live also. Hubby has MY Xbox set up as his HOME and then he just logs onto HIS xbox. I then share his games and xbox live.
Lots of posts here from before the early release release fiasco, giving you incorrect information.
No, you can’t. My I bought this game for my wife while I was at work, and it installed. When she got home to play it, she couldn’t play at all. The licence for the game is apparently server side, locked into your battle.Net account, so if you own it, theoretically YOU could play it wherever, but literally everyone at home has to wait for you to log in at home, start a co op session, have them log in to co op, you drop out of co op, they become party leader and
…that’s it. That’s literally the only way someone who didn’t actually purchase the game (children and significant others) can play by theirselves, in their home, on the console that is linked as primary.
It’s an absolutely disgusting tactic done by blizzard, and there may very well be a lawsuit as a result. Folks are shelling out over a hundred and ten bucks to play this game, buying it as gifts for family, and nope. If you want your kids and family to be able to play this, you have to spend like 300 for you, your wife, and your child. More if you have more than one child.
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