‘Home Gold' has been announced by Microsoft, and it's a new system whereby one membership will offer Gold privileges to all of the Xbox Live profiles on an Xbox One console (multiplayer gaming, apps, SmartMatch).
"So how it works is, on your console, anybody else on the console, whether it's a babysitter that's come over or a friend or your family, can participate in all the experiences like they're on Gold," Microsoft's Marc Whitten told Polygon.
"It's with their gamertag so they're not on your gamertag, you don't even have to be there, they're not messing up your gamerscore or your storage or your queues or anything like that. It's their full account experience, but it really gets to take full advantage of many of the Gold features."
Anybody sharing a console will be able to share the benefits of the Gold profile, and taking a Gold profile over to a friend's console will see digital licenses travel over too, but only as long as the profile is logged in on that console.
"We didn't want people to have to understand a specific set of rules around how Gold works different from content , we just wanted it to be really simple. And we wanted to give that full advantage to people in your house that are coming in to use your console or your content, to be able to play that content in the full way," Whitten explained.
Microsoft has also announced plans to convert Xbox Live Gold Family Packs into individual memberships by the end of the month.
Starting from August 27th, each activated account within a Family Pack will become an individual membership, continuing on for the same amount of time as the original purchase (with three extra months thrown in for good measure).
The transition to individual accounts will see two major changes, the first being the aforementioned introduction of ‘Home Gold', the second being the switch from MS Points to local currency transactions.
More details on the Family Packs conversion can be found in this Q&A on Xbox.com.