Microsoft is up to no good. Redmond has just admitted to tampering with people’s misbegotten Resident Evil 5demoin an effort to prevent them from playing it before Capcom says it’s okay.
What happens is that when people with non-Japanese Xbox Live Gamertags try to play the demo—perhaps they downloaded it?—XBL, in the words of WorthPlaying, “actively corrupts the demo code rendering it completely unplayable – even in offline mode.” That raised a whole bunch of how-much-power-does-Microsoft-have-over-my-360 questions.
To these allegations, Microsoft has said the following:
By putting measures in place to ensure it could only be downloaded in Japan the demo version was effectively reset, meaning that it is only supported by LIVE in the correct region. We look forward to being able to offer our gamers a chance to experience a US demo of this eagerly anticipated title soon
Now, I don’t see how Microsoft can prevent your playing of the demo if you never connect to Xbox Live.
via Xbox-Scene
“That raised a whole bunch of how-much-power-does-Microsoft-have-over-my-360 questions. ”
To answer your question:
*You cannot download this demo from your region*
Message I got on my 360 once when trying to download a Japanese demo from my fake Japanese silver live id.
Granted, this was because the publisher specifically stated to not allow US users to download the demo because they were going to release it in a US as well with a new translation and didn’t want peopel to think the Engrish translation in the Japanese version was their work.
I wonder if the ban hammer will strike for this.
I wonder why they won’t want people to play their demo so we can buy their games..