I could recover my Gamertag, and I could transfer the license, however we are not all made out of money and I cannot go out and buy a new Xbox 360 at present. Even if I recover my Gamertag I still would need to be online to use my digital purchases. The biggest question here is should I have to be online? Also, last I checked, you only allow license migration once a year, so by that rule I have many months to wait – as I used it when the New Xbox Experience shipped to finally fix another DRM glitch.
While I am certain you will tell me that I have the option to ship my out-of-warranty unit back to get fixed, which will cost me $100, ($120 if I do not create the ticket on your web site - nice scam ya got there), I am not paying it. At this point I would be sending in a referb to get a referb. Thanks but no thanks. I will take that $100 that I do not have and put it towards a new Xbox 360 that just might last longer than 12 months. Though considering I will be on my fifth unit in four years, I am not placing any bets.
I am honestly thinking about buying the majority of my games and DLC for my PS3 now. I have so much money invested in games like Rock Band, and Guitar Hero, however. I am not going to purchase a copy of Grand Theft Auto 4 or Fallout 3 (two other games I own DLC for) for the PS3 when I already have them on the 360. But this has made me seriously re-think what console I purchase multi-platform games for.
Your Xbox 360 DRM model continues to baffle me, digital rights my ass. It took you nearly a year to fix the FUBAR with the XBLA games, SEGA games being the ones most affected. Myself, and many others, had to wait until the NXE was launched before we could rightfully use the content we paid for, years earlier, offline. Your tech support staff did not seem to "get" that. Just because your hardware is (still) failing for so many people does not mean those affected should be shut out of their digital purchases.
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1 - anonymo
F*ck Microsoft