Won't happen for a long time yet. The Xbox 360's market place/online systems are being integrated into the Xbox One's at various levels.
Plus there are still millions of 360 gamers, by the time the original Xbox's online was shut off, it's population was almost non-existent.

It most certainly is legal. It is still tied to my license/console. It's on external drives.

Plus I can legally make backups of all my games if I own the original copy anyway, my countries consumer protections tend to be a little better than the US and UK in that regard.

2nd hand sales would be illegal if publishers and platform holders got their way. :P

I was hoping the game would be on sale on Xbox too, but no luck so far :(

Paid $5 CDN for the game with all DLC (American Nightmare included) on steam, not too shabby of a deal, regardless of whether or not it is going to be available or not, that is a steal for a top notch game like Alan Wake.

Just got it. Can't beat $4 for the game and DLC.

What does this mean for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain with all of its songs?


Actually I'm not really worried about that. I would imagine that Kojima had it licenses like movies are. You know, where you can still buy it 20-30 years later? Even with better resolutions are cheap prices.


GTA seems to always be fine as were many other games. I'm curious as to how Remedy handled their licensings to get into this mess.

Is really a digital games problem and bad music companies? or is just MS throw it to the garbage because is not blockbuster? and Remedy after the another poor deal with MS is so economic weak that can't support her own game?
I Bet QB will be disapear too?

It's not like I'm going back to play it again, I still have American Nightmare that I have to finish but it's still installed so.

This happened to GTA: San Andreas almost three years ago:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=928747

17 songs removed due to... yep, end of licensing rights. And, as this PCGamer article of that time explains, the same happened with Vice City.

Yikes I wasn't aware of this. That's terrible news. Why can't it be like movies where they pay for the rights to use it to include it in their project? I'm pretty sure songs aren't taking out of a films soundtrack 20 years later or even for HD re-releases. This is pretty absurd.

I think it's a mentality problem.

Movies have had more time to face this trouble, probably when VHS tapes came out and movies were not only restricted to the movie theater like before. With videogames, digital distribution does the same thing, expanding the lifespan of videogames almost forever, but video game developers/publishers still haven't fully adjusted to this new reality and still rely on cheaper licensing deals that last years instead of being permanent like with movies.

It will take time, but they'll learn.