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[cyan683]

To answer the original question that was asked; yes, you can transfer entire profiles/tags from one system to another using the xplorer360 utility.  I honestly haven't tried getting on Live with the one I copied, but the data seems perfectly accessible  (I could look into live access, but I don't have Gold).  Since you can move drives/memory cards to other systems, I see no reason to think there's anything tying the profile to any system as far as Live goes.

[kilroy1]

I find it real hard to believe that Microsoft didn't anticipate this problem.

After all, I am sure that is is Microsoft's goal to have an xbox 360 console in each room where there is a TV/monitor. That has been their goal ever since the first xbox was a twinkle in Bill's eye.

I have a few 360 consoles in my house. Let's talk about just two of them: there's one in the family media room and another one in my guest house. Sometimes I play on box A, and other times I play on box B. Often I play on both systems in a given day (i.e. if one TV room is in use, I will go to the other room). It is impossible for me to play on both boxes at the same time.

What possible reason could Microsoft have for prohibiting my profile from existing on both consoles? What is their official solution to this problem?

To provide another example of why a profile should be allowed on more than one console at a given time:

I'm divorced (like half the country). My son comes over a couple days per week and every other weekend. I want to buy a couple more 360 consoles for my son to have an use at his other house (where the WWW lives (wicked witch of the west)).

So what is supposed to happen? every time my son visits me he is supposed to recover his profile to one of the 360's at my house, and then upon going back to his mother's house he has to repeat the process?

And while at my house he's supposed to recover his profile each time he plays box A and then again if he goes over the my guest house and plays on box B?

No child nor adult should have to go through this crap daily. and why must we go through it? Hmm, punish the devout followers that have bought 4+ consoles. That makes perfect business sense! Yeah, boy I think I'm just going to run out and buy a few more so I can be even more aggravated.

What brand of crack was Microsoft smokin' when they thought of this (or did they just not think at all when they designed it)?

[DJ Pyra-C]

QUOTE(kilroy1 @ Apr 6 2007, 06:30 AM)

I find it real hard to believe that Microsoft didn't anticipate this problem.

After all, I am sure that is is Microsoft's goal to have an xbox 360 console in each room where there is a TV/monitor. That has been their goal ever since the first xbox was a twinkle in Bill's eye.

I have a few 360 consoles in my house. Let's talk about just two of them: there's one in the family media room and another one in my guest house. Sometimes I play on box A, and other times I play on box B. Often I play on both systems in a given day (i.e. if one TV room is in use, I will go to the other room). It is impossible for me to play on both boxes at the same time.

What possible reason could Microsoft have for prohibiting my profile from existing on both consoles? What is their official solution to this problem?

To provide another example of why a profile should be allowed on more than one console at a given time:

I'm divorced (like half the country). My son comes over a couple days per week and every other weekend. I want to buy a couple more 360 consoles for my son to have an use at his other house (where the WWW lives (wicked witch of the west)).

So what is supposed to happen? every time my son visits me he is supposed to recover his profile to one of the 360's at my house, and then upon going back to his mother's house he has to repeat the process?

And while at my house he's supposed to recover his profile each time he plays box A and then again if he goes over the my guest house and plays on box B?

No child nor adult should have to go through this crap daily. and why must we go through it? Hmm, punish the devout followers that have bought 4+ consoles. That makes perfect business sense! Yeah, boy I think I'm just going to run out and buy a few more so I can be even more aggravated.

What brand of crack was Microsoft smokin' when they thought of this (or did they just not think at all when they designed it)?

 I can feel for your situation, but what's so hard about taking your hard drive or memory unity with you from one xbox location to another?

[-PK-]

The reason is simple: it makes it hard to have two systems with one profile, so you can't buy content on one box and use it on both symultaneously (by having one offline).  However it sounds like this would be possible by duping your profile as previously mentioned as long as you only use one online at a time.

This post has been edited by -PK-: Apr 9 2007, 01:18 AM

[kilroy1]

QUOTE(DJ Pyra-C @ Apr 8 2007, 01:33 AM)

I can feel for your situation, but what's so hard about taking your hard drive or memory unity with you from one xbox location to another?

Well, I have been taking my hard drive between rooms, but...

1) That's still a lame method; MS should solve the issue, and

2) Doesn't solve the problem of when my son comes over and would like to use his profile at the same time I use mine - would be nice to have some father-son GOW time.

Microsoft handles it just fine with Live Messenger - if you sign into computer A, then computer B, you are automatically signed out from Messenger on computer A.

[kilroy1]

And possibly a related question....

If I have multiple xboxes, and I want to pay to download something (e.g. Rainbox Six Update for $10), is that download associated with my profile/gamertag, or the box?

I would hope that it would be associated with my profile, so that I can download it to all my boxes without having to pay for it on each one. That would be the right way to handle it.

Forget that I have multiple boxes -- what if I only had one box and the HD died and I had purchased lots of downloadable content - movies, maps, etc.? Would I be able to redownload everything I paid for without paying a second time?

[johnqdare]

I had this same question I posted it on another forum.  I have 2 xboxs, two different live accounts.  If I pay to download an expansion pack or live arcade game on one of them can I copy it to the other xbox.  I know for the regular xbox there was a DLC checksum that had to match the eeprom on the xbox or the content would not work.  Is there a hack for this yet?