In lieu of your regularly scheduled "Spring" Dashboard update, Microsoft promised to
release a DRM tool that would "allow you to better consolidate your licenses for downloaded content to a single Xbox and allow you the freedom to be able to play your content both online and offline." In other words, this is for the sad saps whose Xbox 360 red-ringed, only to have it returned with Xbox Live Arcade titles that required you to be signed into Live to play. Now instead of jumping through a series of customer-service related hoops, this new tool – available immediately at
Xbox.com – will allow you to quickly manage that content.
If you're looking for some more info on how the DRM tool works, check out our exclusive
Q&A with Microsoft's Marc Whitten, general manager of Xbox Live.
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lol as a PS3 fan, ive always wanted to say that. embrace the fanboy within!
ok im done now.
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dear 360,
welcome to 2006
regards, PS3
*shrugs
What happens if my console RROD's again in 6 months?
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The six months go by,
... 1 month has passed
... 1 month has passed
... 1 month has passed
... 1 month has passed
... 1 month has passed
... 1 month has passed
... RROD
Ok, now mathematically, the equation would be x - y = a
So we plug in the variables, let x = time till next reset, let y = time passed, let a = time left.
Now, thats 12 months - 6 months = amount.
Take the calculator, 12 - 6, that equal 6. You'll have to wait six more months.
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Download again. Is it downloading only the license, or does it repeat the entire download.
2) Download history is a mess, which I think is only sorted by date? No search feature. I've downloaded hundreds of items, I'm sure some people have downloaded much more than that. Now, to have to go into this messy list, find each item and hit download again.
Bad implementation in my opinion. The tool should say, would you like to transfer all old licenses? Y/N. That's it, if you say No, maybe give a list of all items with old licenses and have check boxes, so you can grab whichever ones you are most interested in at the time.
Also, I guess, without looking at all of the pictures (I can't get too much, since I'm on travel and on a cruddy PC), does xbox.com even list the items you need to download again, or does it just have that one image with the quantity of items which need to be updated and it's up to you to figure out which ones to get?
Sigh, keep working MS.
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Also, if you have an item that's higher in space than what you have you can't redownload it even though it doesn't take up extra space. For example I have 3.5 gigs left and I couldn't redownload Psychonauts which is like 3.9 gigs. Kinda wierd.
FINALLY this problem is fixed. Great news for Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 players; now people playing on repaired or replacement Xbox 360's will be able to keep their unlocked characters.
Thank you Microsoft!!!!
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