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Last night I took my HDD to a mates place so I could d/l hexic 2, however when I tried it on my xbox it is just the trial version.
does this mean I have to buy it again?
it does, doesn't it
does this mean I have to buy it again?
it does, doesn't it
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When you purchase something it gets locked in two ways:
First you get a license for that console + hdd to play the game regardless of the account that is being used.
Second the gamertag that is used to purchase it now has a license but it must be logged in to XBL to use it, this way if your console dies you can still play your games on your new console so long as you have an internet connection.
First you get a license for that console + hdd to play the game regardless of the account that is being used.
Second the gamertag that is used to purchase it now has a license but it must be logged in to XBL to use it, this way if your console dies you can still play your games on your new console so long as you have an internet connection.
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Then you could do game sharing only without the 5 console limit...Ben wrote:Kind of annoying that you need to be consistently connected to the net to play the full thing though.
It'd be better if you just needed to connect to the net to sort of reinstate the fact that you've purchased it, then you can continue playing online or offline.
I know, it just seems annoying the way it works at the moment.Sonic Jam wrote:Then you could do game sharing only without the 5 console limit...Ben wrote:Kind of annoying that you need to be consistently connected to the net to play the full thing though.
It'd be better if you just needed to connect to the net to sort of reinstate the fact that you've purchased it, then you can continue playing online or offline.
It would've been nice if you could just disband access to one console so you can bring it up on another, without needing to be online to play it.
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Actually you make a good point it should work the way ps3 dlc works where the server keeps track of where the content is activated and each console can deactivate the content if you want - Only in the 360s case they would limit it to 1 activation not 5 obviously.
It seems entirely doable but it would require them to code some new DRM and I doubt many people complain about the way it is currently done.
It seems entirely doable but it would require them to code some new DRM and I doubt many people complain about the way it is currently done.
Yeah it's not a big issue, but for the people that have had their consoles die on them, there's more incentive to get your old one repaired and returned rather than getting a new one.
Unless the repair means swapping out what identified it as your previous console as far as the d/l game is concerned, then you've got no real choice.
It sounds like a good idea, ie your consoles breaks, and you get a new one, thus you can keep playing your game, but in practice you essentially get back a limited version of the game you had before.
I think it was probably geared moreso to taking your XBLA games to a friends 360 maybe.
Not an issue for me at any rate, but yeah, seems annoying.
Unless the repair means swapping out what identified it as your previous console as far as the d/l game is concerned, then you've got no real choice.
It sounds like a good idea, ie your consoles breaks, and you get a new one, thus you can keep playing your game, but in practice you essentially get back a limited version of the game you had before.
I think it was probably geared moreso to taking your XBLA games to a friends 360 maybe.
Not an issue for me at any rate, but yeah, seems annoying.
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With my replacement machine I tried this out. I was connected to live played an arcade game. No problem. Disconnected my machine and was still able to play all my live arcade games without any problems offline.
So I'm thinking you can float the licence to use games from machine to machine, but in order to do that you need to be connected live at least once. There is probably something stored on the hdd that links the games to a machine id and online authentication is required to change that.
So I'm thinking you can float the licence to use games from machine to machine, but in order to do that you need to be connected live at least once. There is probably something stored on the hdd that links the games to a machine id and online authentication is required to change that.
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Very strange, both my accounts on this new machine can play all my arcade games without any problems disconnected from live.
I would suggest maybe ringing up ms, right now due to the RROD problem a lot of people would be getting all new different machines but still using their old hdd. So I'm guessing they've changed or fixed something to move arcade game licenses to different machines.
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Ok looked into this further and I noticed that the machine I got is the same serial number as my old machine. I'm guessing they must of put a new mobo and drive and just flashed it with my old serial number details. Explains why my arcade titles all work.
I would suggest maybe ringing up ms, right now due to the RROD problem a lot of people would be getting all new different machines but still using their old hdd. So I'm guessing they've changed or fixed something to move arcade game licenses to different machines.
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Ok looked into this further and I noticed that the machine I got is the same serial number as my old machine. I'm guessing they must of put a new mobo and drive and just flashed it with my old serial number details. Explains why my arcade titles all work.
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Yeah, half my XBL arcade titles dont work as my machine was replaced back in Jan. Sadly, this applies to content for games too. I couldnt even play TDU offline the other week when we lost internet access as it wont let you continue without the content. Unlike Oblivion where is just says some of the items arent available till you log in to XBL. Luckily all thew content I got for TDU was the free stuff, so I just d/l it all again.
If you ever send your machine into MS, when you get it back, call them up, tell them you dont alway conect to the net and they'll email you codes that will equal roughly what you've spent on XBL Marketplace. I was refunded about 4-5k points earlier in the year so instead of buying all the stuff I had, I bought some new stuff, like the Oblivion exp pack .
If you ever send your machine into MS, when you get it back, call them up, tell them you dont alway conect to the net and they'll email you codes that will equal roughly what you've spent on XBL Marketplace. I was refunded about 4-5k points earlier in the year so instead of buying all the stuff I had, I bought some new stuff, like the Oblivion exp pack .
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