My son and I have been using family share on Xbox for years. We have two xbox’s in the same house and I purchase games on my Xbox ID and he can login as his Xbox ID and play the games at the same time as me so we’re playing together on our separate Xbox’s.
For the first time with any game ever, I can’t seem to get this to work with Diablo IV. If I login as my account on one xbox, it will not allow him to login using his xbox tag on the other xbox as it says he does not have a license. Even though that xbox is linked to my license and has the game installed which I purchased.
Now what’s really dumb is that I can login as my name, add him as an additional player using his name, which allows him to create his own character and play along with me. I can even logout as my name immediately after he logs in and he can play forever using just his xbox account. So basically there’s a way to trick the system to allowing this to work but it’s really dumb we have to jump through these hoops to get there. We used to play together on Diablo III on multiple xbox’s, and with literally every other game I own, but this is the first game where it doesn’t seem to work.
I’m hopeful that this is just a bug and can be fixed going forward or maybe others have advice on how to get this to function for us. Like others, there’s no way I’m paying another $90 for him to get his own license just so we can play together in separate rooms when we are able to play together now on separate IDs in the same room. It’s just crazy.