Hi folks. I setup a Microsoft account for my son, under my account as a family member.

We log in to the same windows accounts, not separate ones. 

When he uses MFS, he logs into the sim using his account by switching profiles. But the Caranedo M20 that I bought on my account, isn't available to install for his account. It's asking to buy it again. By comparison, the world updates that I downloaded on my account are available to install, although it doesn't download it again, just makes it available. I was expecting that I could make the M20 available in the same way. 

Has anyone else encountered this? 

The world updates are free for all users, so it makes sense to me they would just be available to everyone.

Paid addons are likely tied to a single XBox account.

 

8 minutes ago, marsman2020 said:

The world updates are free for all users, so it makes sense to me they would just be available to everyone.

Paid addons are likely tied to a single XBox account.

 

I suppose what I was thinking is that it's downloaded on the same Windows account, so not sure why it's not available. Seems a bit unfair to make me buy it again for my son. 

I'll open a support ticket with Caranedo if that is the case. 

As with most software, you're buying a licence to use it rather than owning the software. I would imagine that the licence would be for a single user and that your son's account makes him a second user and therefore not eligible to download the software you bought. Whether that seems fair is subjective but I can see why that may be the situation here. 

2 hours ago, squareflux said:

I suppose what I was thinking is that it's downloaded on the same Windows account, so not sure why it's not available. Seems a bit unfair to make me buy it again for my son. 

I'll open a support ticket with Caranedo if that is the case. 

This is just how the modern software world works, unfortunately.  It's about license entitlements, not the physical files. 

As far as I'm aware, in-sim Marketplace purchases are tied to an X-Box account.

I expect (but have not confirmed) that if you bought third party addons that get installed into the Community folder from say Simmarket, then those would work with any X-Box login into that copy of MSFS....but that may still be ok or not depending on the license associated with those addons. 

The marketplace is never the place to purchase 3PD's if you have multiple xbox accounts. Use the developers website and an .exe file instead.

The modern world is silly, which requires silly solutions.

46 minutes ago, WestAir said:

requires silly solutions

Agree though I wonder why something like family sharing is not possible. I mean I bought Xbox content also my kids can use from their accounts. Should work for msfs too considering it used Xbox login. Would be worthwhile to ask ms and open a zendesk ticket instead of asking carenado 

I figured out how to make it work on both accounts without buying it again. Might not be fully legit, so I'm not going to post how I did it.

9 hours ago, squareflux said:

I figured out how to make it work on both accounts without buying it again. Might not be fully legit, so I'm not going to post how I did it.

out of curiosity, is your son part of your MS family setting, i.e. assigned as child? that may explain why switching accounts from son to you and then back to son helps. if it works it may not be so illegit otherwise MS would for sure prevent this.

8 hours ago, DAD said:

out of curiosity, is your son part of your MS family setting, i.e. assigned as child? that may explain why switching accounts from son to you and then back to son helps. if it works it may not be so illegit otherwise MS would for sure prevent this.

Yeah, he is. But switching that way didn't fix it. I had to get creative.

22 hours ago, marsman2020 said:

This is just how the modern software world works, unfortunately. 

Nothing modern about it. That is how it always was. People just conveniently ignored it as long ast they had a hard copy of the software at home.

3 minutes ago, Farlis said:

Nothing modern about it. That is how it always was. People just conveniently ignored it as long ast they had a hard copy of the software at home.

That is not how it "always was", in the pre-internet and pre-DRM days it was generally one copy could be used by one person at a time.  There were no logins to tie things to.  

21 minutes ago, marsman2020 said:

That is not how it "always was", in the pre-internet and pre-DRM days it was generally one copy could be used by one person at a time.  There were no logins to tie things to.  

You missed that I said "People conveniently ignored it".

The EULA's for Software have always been one copy per computer and person. The only difference is that DRM actually enables companies to enforce those rules.