What do I need for my sons xbox to play "live"?

The xbox live gold membership is paid for when you buy it. It never runs out until you have used all of the time you bought. Like say you bought a 12 month subscription it will last you the whole year until the day you bought the last one and activated it. Only time you use money is when you want to buy something from xbox live. All you need is the internet wifi or direct cable works. You can actually use your xbox live account on any xbox. Say if his friend has an xbox and has xbox live he can then use his account on his friends xbox to play online with his friend. You dont have to worry though every time he goes to an xbox he has to recover his xbox live account info so no one else can use it while he is using it. There is also a few new updates to keep his account safe as well when he does want to do something like that. also you can go into family settings and make it so he cant buy anything with out a pass code even put a timer on it with a pass code to limit time of play. So inclosing no you dont have to buy GB it just uses your internet connection and it does cover the cost of play for as long as you bought the subscription. Hope this helps :)

Are you asking about the amount of bandwidth that is being consumed? OR the speed of the connection or the needed storage?
That game uses about 1.5 Gigs in 8 hours for bandwidth.

Yes, you should be able to create a new XBox Live account for your son.

When you create a new XBox Live account, make sure to edit the date of birth so it is at least 18 years old. This way any and all restrictions on his online gaming experience will be nullified.

Hope that helps!

Have you paid the subscription fee for XBox live?

Have you tried clicking on Test Connection when you sign in? This may tell you the problem you're experiencing.
Hope this helps,

Best Regards,

L J.

Hacking in any way is illegal. If he is getting hacked, change his Xbox live account password, and do not play call of duty world at war until further notice.

It sounds like you're not signed into a profile with Xbox Live Gold.

Hi. Your son most likely bought the Gold membership to XBOX Live thinking that it was an XBOX Live Gold Family Pack. A single Gold membership costs $59.99 USD. An XBOX Live Gold Family Pack costs $99.99 USD. With the family pack, you get four 12-month Xbox LIVE Gold memberships for less than the price of two. Two players cannot use a single Gold membership, but if they play on the same console, then two players could share one membership. Also, certain games, such as Call of Duty: Black Ops and Halo:Reach allow players to play online multiplayer games together with one "guest" player at the same time, on the same TV. I hope this cleared everything up.

unfortunately, after doing some research, i have determined that unless the problem is that you don't have xbox live gold, in which case you wouldn't be able to play online period, your son needs to make a new gamer profile. It should work afterwards. I need more details as to exactly what happens before i give you a definitive answer, though.

Hi Stacey,

Does your son play on the old Xbox or the Xbox 360?

Xbox Live has been discontinued on the original Xbox as of April 15, 2010. A press release can be found here:

http://gamerscoreblog.com/press/archive/2010/02/05/gh789.aspx

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