Following a question of rumors and leaks, Xbox has yet unveiled immoderate details astir its account-sharing program for Game Pass. Called Game Pass Friends and Family, it’s not disposable stateside yet. But erstwhile (or if) it yet becomes disposable extracurricular the 2 countries Microsoft is investigating it in, it definite sounds similar it’ll beryllium a large deal.

Right now, Game Pass is already 1 of the champion deals successful gaming. For $10 a month, you tin get entree to a rotational room of hundreds of games connected Xbox oregon PC. For $15 a month, you tin motion up for the higher tier: Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, which offers combined entree to some the Xbox and PC libraries, bundles successful the crippled room of EA Play (the sports crippled publisher’s akin games-on-demand service), and offers the quality to watercourse much than 100 games. Game Pass Friends and Family is beauteous overmuch the Ultimate tier, but you tin stock 1 relationship betwixt 5 people, with 1 idiosyncratic designated arsenic a superior relationship holder..

Game Pass Friends and Family is presently successful a proceedings signifier successful Colombia and the Republic of Ireland, wherever it costs 49,000 COP oregon €21.99 per month, respectively. (As of this writing, those fees person to $10.92 oregon $21.99 successful U.S. currency.) Xbox Game Pass Ultimate presently costs 29,000 COP successful Colombia and €12.99 successful Ireland.

Anyone signed up for Game Pass volition spot months from existing subscriptions converted into partial months connected the sharing plan. If you’re presently signed up for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, each remaining period volition crook into 18 days of Game Pass Friends and Family. Those signed up for the piecemeal tiers volition spot their subscriptions person into 12 days of Game Pass Friends and Family.

On paper, assuming Microsoft keeps a akin pricing strategy astir the globe, Game Pass Friends and Family is worthy considering. Assuming the institution goes with the higher figure, the astir $22 terms constituent presently successful effect successful Ireland, that’s inactive a damn bully deal. Get 4 friends connected board, and you’re each paying little than $5 for everything you’d different get for 3 times that cost. (It’s besides a astute mode for Microsoft to boost Game Pass subscriber numbers, which missed caller targets.)

There are immoderate limitations, however. If you’re the relationship holder, you tin lone person 4 further radical connected an relationship astatine immoderate fixed time, and tin lone stock with 8 unsocial accounts implicit the people of a calendar year. And it’s region-locked: The superior relationship holder tin lone adhd members who unrecorded successful the aforesaid state oregon region.

It is unclear if determination are circumstantial plans to bring Game Pass Friends and Family to regions beyond the 2 Microsoft is presently investigating the program in, oregon what a imaginable timeline determination would be. (Representatives for Microsoft did not respond to a petition for remark successful clip for publication.) But Microsoft published an encyclopedic FAQ connected Xbox’s U.S. enactment page, suggesting there’s astatine slightest immoderate information for American players. It notes, “future countries mightiness beryllium added successful the adjacent months.”