Arcade Games Reverted to Demos...

jakeq47 · Jun 24, 2016

I'm not sure when this happened but somewhere along the line after I moved I got on my Xbox 360 and all my arcade games are now demos and it says I have to purchase again to get them back. Is there a way to recover my purchases?

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kratos9816 · Jun 24, 2016

Where are the new demos/arcade games?

Im on xbox live most of the week and I normally look for new demos and arcade games. Its been two weeks now. The latest demos is R.U.S.E...... ugh. Do anybody know when new demos or arcade games releasing?

Goku1552 · Jun 24, 2016

are these demos or full games on my 250Gb HDD?

arcade demos do not show up in the the "demos" part of the storage menu, only disc games show up there.

DigitalAssassin · Jun 27, 2016

Hi there, so have you changed consoles since originally purchasing some of the games? If so you will need to do a license transfer and re-download the game to be able to play them, see link for steps on how to do a license transfer:

support.xbox.com/.../download-content

jakeq47 · Jul 2, 2016

Nope, it's the same console that I bought the games on.

banej · Jul 5, 2016

Did you recently changed your HDD or bring your HDD to your friend's place to play?

When you buy a Live title, you get two DRM licenses.

One is attached to your Gamertag. Play that game on any console on your Gamertag, connected to Live.

One is attached to your console. Play that game on your console using any Gamertag present inside the console, connected to Live or not.

If your console fails and is repaired, you will lose the console license. You can transfer the console licenses on-line. Even once you've transferred the console license on-line, you will have to re download the license file; this will only take a second,
you don't need to re download the whole game.

StuartATrueRed · Nov 2, 2018

Do the license transfer and then re-download your games, this should hopefully fix the issue for you.

jakeq47

Nope, it's the same console that I bought the games on.

DigitalAssassin

Hi there, so have you changed consoles since originally purchasing some of the games? If so you will need to do a license transfer and re-download the game to be able to play them, see link for steps on how to do a license transfer:

support.xbox.com/.../download-content

StuartATrueRed

Do the license transfer and then re-download your games, this should hopefully fix the issue for you.

banej

Did you recently changed your HDD or bring your HDD to your friend's place to play?

When you buy a Live title, you get two DRM licenses.

One is attached to your Gamertag. Play that game on any console on your Gamertag, connected to Live.
One is attached to your console. Play that game on your console using any Gamertag present inside the console, connected to Live or not.
If your console fails and is repaired, you will lose the console license. You can transfer the console licenses on-line. Even once you've transferred the console license on-line, you will have to re download the license file; this will only take a second,
you don't need to re download the whole game.

Caricax

I guess the in-game purchases work only with Arcade games (mainly considering that the Arcade demos are the same size as the full game, and Fable's demo has 1,5 gb while the full game has 5 gb).

Anyway, I will test it.

Thanks!

Arcade Games Reverted to Demos...