Simple use of an xbox

[rufusgti]

I bought our children their first Xbox at Christmas. They have been asking for years and my son is 8 so thought he was ready.

I wanted to set the Xbox up a few days before, knowing that I'm crap at stuff like that and didn't want to spend Christmas day faffing around setting it up. My wife insisted it was to be set up on christmas day.

So I spent what seemed like hours setting up an account for myself, downloading apps, downloading the family app and setting up seperate accounts for each child, setting various restrictions so they wouldn't start expending money or getting themselves into bother with online gaming.

Then I forgot all passwords and just basically muddled through mainly using my account to play the games as various passwords and key configuration need to be inputted to get the kids profiles to start which I can't figure out.

I'm having trouble understanding how we got from my last gaming experiences. Which was a playstation where you put a game in a slot and played it. To what now seems to be an overly complicated access system. I don't even know what I'm saying anymore. I just can't use it. I'm not totally locked out. It's not accepting my password which I changed just two days ago.

Can anyone help me with this. By pointing me towards perhaps a video explaining how to correctly set it up. I don't mind deleting all apps and starting again if that's possible. I'd like a system that the kids can just turn on and play. I'm starting to wonder if I should sell it and buy the Nintendo. I'm not signed up to online gaming anyway as I found just the setup too much of a faff so as soon as the games were stable the kids were just wanting to get involved.

Where can I go online for advice.

[Insert Coin]

Give the support guys a call, they’ve always been super helpful on the couple of times I’ve needed their help -

https://support.xbox.com/en-GB/contact-us

[The_Jackal]

Forget all the different accounts rubbish.
Just set up one account and dont put your credit card details in (buy codes online to redeem credit and xbox live time).
Setup the account and login, thats it. Have it stay logged in.
Sharing accounts etc is so convoluted and a pain in the arse even for adults let alone kids to deal with.
Dont believe the hype that all the paedos are waiting to climb down the internet to your child.
All you need to do, is be around when they play it, switch it off when you want it switched off, and take the controller so they cant play without you knowing if that is your worry.
It might be worth just resetting the xbox and starting from scratch. Reset your password from your phone, then log in fresh and download the games you want, then hand it over.

[Jader1973]

I find multiple accounts on the XBox work okay (as long as you write down all the e-mail addresses, passwords, and codes).

It all goes to st when you buy an EA game (like FIFA or Madden) and then find your kids can’t play career mode because they have to 13 to have an EA account and even if you fudge that it knows their XBox account is for kids and won’t work.

So, you end up setting up a new adult account so they can actually play the EA game.

Probably more of an EA issue to be fair.

[W201_190e]

Jader1973 said:

I find multiple accounts on the XBox work okay (as long as you write down all the e-mail addresses, passwords, and codes).

It all goes to st when you buy an EA game (like FIFA or Madden) and then find your kids can’t play career mode because they have to 13 to have an EA account and even if you fudge that it knows their XBox account is for kids and won’t work.

So, you end up setting up a new adult account so they can actually play the EA game.

Probably more of an EA issue to be fair.

You don't need to set up an account to play single player EA games. There is an option to skip all that crap.

[gangzoom]

Sounds like Stadia would work much better, set up a joint family Google account and off you go .

[A Winner Is You]

Jader1973 said:

I find multiple accounts on the XBox work okay (as long as you write down all the e-mail addresses, passwords, and codes).

It all goes to st when you buy an EA game (like FIFA or Madden) and then find your kids can’t play career mode because they have to 13 to have an EA account and even if you fudge that it knows their XBox account is for kids and won’t work.

So, you end up setting up a new adult account so they can actually play the EA game.

Probably more of an EA issue to be fair.

They need you to set up an account in the hope you'll spend the $110,000 needed to get a top tier FIFA Ultimate Team.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XHq0RGqRuU

[Insert Coin]

I don’t have any issue with my Xbox and my kids with their own accounts using it.

For instance I don’t want my 7 year old playing CoD or GTA 5 etc.

You can control all the content settings from the adults account.

Both my kids have Hotmail accounts that only I can access, I have the passwords and I use the same details on Epic Games so they can play Fortnite.

The kids can also share my Gamepass which is a bonus.

[Jader1973]

W201_190e said:

You don't need to set up an account to play single player EA games. There is an option to skip all that crap.

If there was I couldn’t find it. To play the Volta bit of FIFA whatever number it was he needed an EA account, and for Madden 21 he needed an EA account to play career mode. I couldn’t find a way round it.