Gacler’s train to nowhere

Most of us have been there, getting back from work or school ready for a good game with our favorite console, the god-how-can-it-work-at-that-temperature? Xbox 360, just to find out that it wont turn on as you see this beauties flashing by..

The good thing about Microsoft is that they have enough money to repair this faulty machines (They forecasted 1.15Billions in repairs for this generation of consoles), OK, so you have your new / repaired Xbox 360 now, and want to play some Arcade games, guess what?, most of the times you won’t be able to play your previously purchased games unless you go online and sign up with the same account that you used to purchase them in the broken console, and even in some cases you won’t be to able to play the FULL game at all, all you will get is the demo.

Deleting it and re-downloading doesn’t work? , It surely didn’t for me when I get my Xbox replaced.

Microsoft claims that the licenses are transferred from one Xbox to the other by their team, but they don’t do this very well, this happened to me and by doing a lot of digging here is the short answer:

Go to www.xbox.com

Login to your xbox live account

Click  — Support

Click — Xbox 360: Transferring Content Licenses to a New Console

Follow the simple steps given.

“Important Information About Your Downloaded Content After Console Repair/Refurbishment

Notice to customers who have had their Xbox 360 consoles serviced by Microsoft: If you previously downloaded content from Xbox LIVE Marketplace prior to your console service, you need to connect to Xbox LIVE to restore the licenses for that content on this console. If you don’t, you’ll only be able to use that content when signed in to Xbox LIVE with the profile that originally downloaded the content.

To restore your licenses:

Attach your hard drive or memory unit.

Turn on the console.

Sign in to Xbox LIVE with the gamer profile that originally downloaded the content.

Go to Xbox LIVE Marketplace and select Account Management, Download History.

Select an item and then select Download Again.

Repeat step 5 for each item in your download history.

After you download your content again, anyone on this console can use it, whether you’re signed in to Xbox LIVE or not.

License restoration will only work on the console as returned to you by Microsoft’s service center.

If you need further assistance contact Customer Support.” – www.xbox.com