Several months after the initial report of the Xbox Game Pass "Friends & Family" plan, Xbox has finally begun testing the upcoming plan.
Twitter leaker Aggiornamenti Lumia dropped details about the rumored subscription tier, which would reportedly let up to five people share Game Pass benefits at the same time. At the moment, Xbox is limiting the testing to Colombia and Ireland. But, it's probably only a matter of time before it's rolled out to other territories.
Regardless of when it is available for the rest of the world, we're interested to find out how Xbox intends to minimize the potential abuse of such a shared service.
Xbox isn't the only company that has experimented with letting subscribers share accounts between households. In the past, others such as Netflix have been burned as total strangers shared and split the costs of a particular service. Given how lax the current testing period is, with Xbox's only restriction being that users "must reside in the same country as you," we can expect certain individuals to take advantage of this until Xbox makes changes.
