Windows 10: Family Sharing Apps and Minecraft

I have followed the silly process for "family sharing" that everyone is directed to here. I purchased Minecraft on my account, logged into the PC with my daughter's account, logged her account out of the store, logged myself in to the store, installed Minecraft, then set the store to require my password for purchases. This seems unnecessarily complicated compared to the other app stores I've used , but it's how Microsoft does things.This was all fine until today when my daughter wanted to buy an add on for Minecraft. When she made the purchase it never prompted for my password. Looking onl

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can't share minecraft with my family account

I follow steps in this website

How to share your PC game library with your family

and there's no minecraft in my family account's store

 

Share Minecraft with Family

I've seen a more or less similar post but of 2016, so I was hoping things might be different now.

Is it possible to buy minecraft once and share it with your kids on the family account and can they play it simultaneously?

I find this whole family account and content sharing on the microsoft store very confusing. It is very obvious in the Google play store how that works and there I bough minecraft once and can share it with my kids who can play it simultaneously.

 

Share Minecraft with Family

Hi Greg

Thank you very much. I followed the steps and it is working perfectly. The kids are now playing minecraft using the family accounts.

Regards

Pieter