Comments on: Xbox Live owners getting content re-licensed to new Xboxes

By: Bryant Ghee

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:01:29 +0000

This seems to be the new “FIX” from microsoft. Hope it works for you.

http://www.360-hq.com/article-2709-thread-1-0.html

By: Nic

Nic — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:04:47 +0000

If u download content again, will it be on your harddrive twice and take up twice as much space?

By: Tex

Tex — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:56:19 +0000

So… when can we get re-licensed? Can we just Download Again and have everything fixed, or will it be rolled out in an update?

By: Sinizar

Sinizar — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:09:25 +0000

Yeah Commander Tim’s solution does not work. If you are offline your games show up as locked.

By: r

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:38:32 +0000

you know, it would be awesome if they would do this for upgrading from the original xbox. The only reason I’m keeping it around is to retain the $200 in downloads that are on it.

HEY MICROSOFT PLEASE WORK ON THIS!

By: Rusty

Rusty — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:16:27 +0000

yeah, totally. The guy above me has AIDS.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:06:45 +0000

Good to see ignorance is alive and well.

By: swube

swube — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:11:30 +0000

fuck off cocksuckers

By: Live4Life

Live4Life — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:51:27 +0000

Yea Michael, I am having the same problem. I used the method described and the content still does not work when offline.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:17:55 +0000

Well they are kinda fixing it seeing that the newer consoles are less likely to Red Ring and we all have our 3 year warrantys.

By: blogkitten

blogkitten — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:03:24 +0000

Oops! I meant 2007. Been typing 2008 at work all day! :)

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:44:57 +0000

I tried the method described in the podcast, and the game is still only working for my account.

Is anyone else able to get this to work?

By: alicia

alicia — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:45:23 +0000

Very cool!

http://no-effort-money.blogspot.com/

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:45:52 +0000

Yeah, you can re-download, but the account that purchased it must be signed in to Xbox Live to play it. So if there’s a problem with Xbox Live, your ISP or maybe you took it to your cousin’s house to play and you’re not able to get on his network… then you can’t play all the XBLA arcade games or DLC you bought on the old system. Since your Gamertag can’t re-purchase it, you would have to create a second account and re-purchase it for the new console on that account to get it to work offline. And then you’ve bought the same thing twice just to fix a problem they’ve created. I heard that before they would credit a second account you created with the MS points or send you codes to unlock the original content you bought.

By: Matt Hickey

Matt Hickey — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:33:58 +0000

You have a podcast from August 17, 2008? Man from the future, I salute you.

By: IronPirate

IronPirate — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:03:31 +0000

I was juat about to say that Commander Tim covered this a while ago. But I was beaten to the punch.

http://www.commandertim.com/?p=119#top3

In case you didn’t see the link the first time.

By: Big Dave

Big Dave — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:51:47 +0000

Nice on Commander Tim. You da man!

By: blogkitten

blogkitten — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:27:22 +0000

Actually, this solution was discovered and promoted back in August of last year by Tim Wilsie on the Commander Tim podcast in episode 45. Link here: http://www.commandertim.com/?p=119#top3

Here’s a quote from the August 17, 2008 post: “This episode, I found the solution to my XBLA woes, no thanks to the wonderful tech support of Microsoft. Tune in to learn how you can avoid ever having to speak to them to fix it.”

Too bad Kotaku won’t give credit where credit is due, despite many people pointing this fact out to them.

By: Xbot

Xbot — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:34:29 +0000

Hahahaha thats all i can do for people buying a x360.

By: edhe

edhe — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:31:38 +0000

All your content can be redownloaded for free. The DRM issue is that you cannot play your purchases offline, or with another account on that machine anymore.

It’s a pain, and totally unnecessary. and in the wake of the RRoD fiasco it shouldn’t exist anymore.