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DirkCrisis

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We're talking Xbox right? COD 2 on 360..the launch title...its not online. COD3 was the first.

No, really you can play COD2 online (8 players max!).

I've played it online fairly recently as has Mr_Woo

EDIT - Ah I see you're a believer

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I never, ever played L4D apart from a demo on my own so if that goes into a sale, I'll definitely join in for some forum hijinks and make my CoD only friends buy it at gun point.

Although if this download on two consoles and login with someone else thing actually works, I'll just do that. Although that sounds like a suspiciously easy piracy trick - I'm fairly sure that I've brought a USB stick over to my mates and they couldn't play the (XBLA) games that I had on my USB stick without buying it under their own gamertag.... or maybe I'm remembering wrong.

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I'm fairly sure that I've brought a USB stick over to my mates and they couldn't play the (XBLA) games that I had on my USB stick without buying it under their own gamertag.... or maybe I'm remembering wrong.

It would have worked as long as you were online and signed into Xbox live under your own gamertag. That's how it works:

1) as anyone on the console you buy it on, online or offline

2) as you on any console, online only

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COD2 Xbox 360 multiplayer was quite broken on release. There was no such thing as custom lobbies, just a barebones matchmaking.

There was a bug exploit that we took advantage of a trick thinking it was in a System Link LAN game, but over xbox live.

They patch it up quite significantly and was a pretty good MP game.

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It would have worked as long as you were online and signed into Xbox live under your own gamertag. That's how it works:

1) as anyone on the console you buy it on, online or offline

2) as you on any console, online only

Interesting.. I'll have to try that, surely though, I can bring my USB stick over to a friends house, re-download all of my games to his HDD and he'd get them all for free, isn't that an amazingly big, piracy-like exploit?

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I never, ever played L4D apart from a demo on my own so if that goes into a sale, I'll definitely join in for some forum hijinks and make my CoD only friends buy it at gun point.

Although if this download on two consoles and login with someone else thing actually works, I'll just do that. Although that sounds like a suspiciously easy piracy trick - I'm fairly sure that I've brought a USB stick over to my mates and they couldn't play the (XBLA) games that I had on my USB stick without buying it under their own gamertag.... or maybe I'm remembering wrong.

haha piracy.

You can play a game that was downloaded on the machine you're using, or if you're signed in and connected to the internet using the tag you bought it under.

This gives you the possibility of using it on a maximum of two machines simultaneously.

Interesting.. I'll have to try that, surely though, I can bring my USB stick over to a friends house, re-download all of my games to his HDD and he'd get them all for free, isn't that an amazingly big, piracy-like exploit?

He'd get them all for free and could play them as long as your profile is signed in on that machine and connected to Live. Presumably though, you'll be going home at some point and taking your profile with you.

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haha piracy.

You can play a game that was downloaded on the machine you're using, or if you're signed in and connected to the internet using the tag you bought it under.

This gives you the possibility of using it on a maximum of two machines simultaneously.

He'd get them all for free and could play them as long as your profile is signed in on that machine and connected to Live. Presumably though, you'll be going home at some point and taking your profile with you.

I'm clearly being thick (and dragging this OT, apologies) because how can I play a game simultaneously on two machines if it doesn't work after I've taken my profile with me? Or if he can play it as long as I'm signed in, how can I play on another machine? What?

If I go to his house, log in with my profile, go to download again for some multiplayer game - it's now on his machine. I then take the USB stick out of xbox a and go home and put it into my machine where i've already downloaded it, that won't work?

Or even if I do it in my own house as someone already mentioned in this thread (might have even been you), download game on xbox a, take USB stick to xbox b and download it again (logged in as me, obv.) but login to xbox a using a different live account, I can then apparently play 2P between xbox a and b using only one 'bought' copy of the game?

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The "exploit" is very limited it can only work on two machines and even then...

the one where the license "belongs" must be offline

The one you without the license has to have the buyers proifle signed in to live on it.

So it'd be tricky to make a killing out of it, and it means profiles are truly transportable I can log into any 360 and download any game I own and play it on that machine, very handy

especially since they gopt rid of that painfully slow "recover gamertag thing" and added in cloud saves.

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You download the game onto your own console. Let's call it console A. That copy of the game will always work on that machine because it's tied to that particular console now.

You take your profile with you to your friend's house and stick it in his console. Let's call that console B. You can download the game again onto his machine.

The game will continue to work on console A regardless of who is signed in because it is tied to that machine.

The game will only work on console B while your profile is logged in on that machine. Remove your profile and the game will stop working.

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b00dles

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Oh I see, so system link only and one has to be offline. Je comprendre.

That's what I have done anyone in regards to showing new games that I've bought or want to play multiplayer (aside from the system link bit) I'll definitely give that a go for L4D or something though.

Or if the Saints games go into the GoD sales.

EDIT: Sorry all, back to what's on the deal and if you bought game x or not.

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Clipper

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I'm clearly being thick (and dragging this OT, apologies) because how can I play a game simultaneously on two machines if it doesn't work after I've taken my profile with me? Or if he can play it as long as I'm signed in, how can I play on another machine? What?

If I go to his house, log in with my profile, go to download again for some multiplayer game - it's now on his machine. I then take the USB stick out of xbox a and go home and put it into my machine where i've already downloaded it, that won't work?

Or even if I do it in my own house as someone already mentioned in this thread (might have even been you), download game on xbox a, take USB stick to xbox b and download it again (logged in as me, obv.) but login to xbox a using a different live account, I can then apparently play 2P between xbox a and b using only one 'bought' copy of the game?

it only works as I described so if you had two xboxes system link it could work. Download the game to your xbox that has licenses and profile... log onto second machine and download game.

Log into license machine in offline mode ... log into 2nd machine in online mode signed in on the right profile. Then you can play system link betweent he two

As you can see there is no easy way to make a killing on this.

You could ensure all your licenses are on your friends machine so he can play your games offline and you can play them all online when yuo are signed in on your own 360.. but that would require a modicum of trust haha

This bit is incorrect. I have had the same game running on two consoles, both online.

Oh right

never knew that just assuemd the XBL servers would complain .. obviously not

you'd still need your profile on friends machine or ensure his machine held your licenses to work a "scam" tho

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you'd still need your profile on friends machine or ensure his machine held your licenses to work a "scam" tho

Yes. You could buy a game at a friend's house and download it there. Then download it on your own machine when you get home. The downside would be that if your internet goes tits up you wouldn't be able to play your game.

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Clipper

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so in short there is an "exploit" of sorts but minor and it gives us a very flexible account based system for accessing our stuff.

especially useful for those of us with more than 1 xbox in different rooms, although I have buggered it as half the licenses are on one machine and half on the other.

I should get around to sorting out that transfer at some point,... but I am lazy

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b00dles

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Just to clarify, I wasn't asking because I'm trying to develop some convoluted pirating scheme, just more for the ability to play 2P without having to actually buy two copies would be very handy.

Especially as I have two xboxes in the house. I often re-download games on another machine so I can play it in the other room, I just assumed that it wouldn't let me use it if I logged in as someone else. I didn't know I could do it for system link though but presumably (just to really labour the point) only system link, right? This sale got a bit more interesting now that I know that.

Thanks all.

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