360 DRM Transfer Actually Worked!

I got a call yesterday from Xbox customer support (I think it was the Product Development Team) informing me that they'd manually transferred the original purchasing console status for all of my LIVE Marketplace content from my original, bricked 360 to the one that they sent me as a replacement under warranty. He said I'd just have to re-download my Marketplace content and everything should be in order, and if it wasn't to be sure to call them back. Here's the shocking part: it actually worked this time. My venom toward large corporate masses and their fanboys is now focused more on Apple again rather than being evenly divided between Apple ad Microsoft.

There's something that those of you who've been avoiding transferring your DRM due to the laborious nature of the process should know. While you do have to go through your download history and select each item you want to re-authorize, the download time for any item (even a map pack) is only a few seconds. It's the equivalent of downloading a full LIVE Arcade title when you already have the demo version on your console. The system is smart enough to realize that the file is already there on your hard drive or memory unit, so all that has to be downloaded is some sort of unlock code. It's still a pain, but it's much less time time consuming than I'd feared and the six-item download cue is not an issue in the process. Just make sure that you don't forget about a large game demo file that's #1 in your cue like I did.

Posted by Graven on Fri Jun 20, 2008 @ 8:46 am EDT | 4 Comments