DRM & Dante’s Inferno
To avoid the direction my blog is headed – a twitter repository – I thought I’d add a new post.
This weekend I wanted to move all my content between an old Xbox 360 & a new Elite Xbox 360. At first I thought this would be easy… Essentially I’m transferring data between to PC’s. And what’s this? They both have USB ports? The plan formulated quickly… Just get a USB cable and attach the two Xbox’s together.
I was wrong (also a great Social Distortion song).
There’s a special Xbox 360 Hard Data Transfer Cable. Of course there is. And it’s ONLY $20. Only. When a USB cable transfer method (which it appears this mostly is) would have been free.
So – first complaint – that’s all sorts of lame. Thanks Microsoft. For nothing.
Second complaint – and I’m not sure who to blame this on – is DRM. Since I’m not paying for a transfer kit I’d only use once, I used my memory card to transfer over ALL my save data. There were several gigs so this probably took about half an hour. Which is fine, I saved $20.
The problem came when I was trying to move my DANTE’s INFERNO save from my hard drive to my memory card. And I could not. It tells me I can not transfer data from one storage device to another. Even though I’m signed in with my account (I realize that portion of DRM might make sense).
I don’t know which company’s fault this is… Either way, even though I paid money for BOTH products, I cannot move my data around. So it really doesn’t matter where the fault is – it really doesn’t. I’d LOVE to not be sold software and hardware that cripples simple tasks like that.
In the end I had to boot up the game and then select a save from the hard drive. I then was able to create a new save on the memory unit. But guess what?!? I’ll then have to launch the game, select the save game from the memory unit and then save a new game onto the hard drive.
Awesome.
Way to go everyone.
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