Mo' 360's, Mo' Problems! Multi-console owners, help me out!

[toadslayer72]

d21lewis said:

toadslayer72 said:

Ok, I'm not sure I completely follow your convoluted tale here but I'll give it a shot.

AFAIK, you will NOT be able to play the same game simultaniously on two different boxes without paying for two downloads. During the license transfer process you can select the games you want available on your new box. So say you downloaded "Joe Blow Bones His Mom" and "Happy Unicorn Funtime" on the old 360 and you are gonna do the transfer, keep Unicorn Funtime on the box your daughter will be using and send Joe Blow over to your new 360 so you guys can bone his mom in slim style. 

It's an inconvenient set up IMO and once you do the transfer it has to stay that way for a year before you can do it again. It's not a big deal for you cause like you said, you can recover accounts and play with your account but it sucks when you have multiple consoles and multiple users.  Another thing you might want to consider now that you have more than one 360 in your house is getting a thumb drive if you plan on playing on more than one box. I know you said you have a dedicated gameroom so it may not be an issue but if you do find yourself gaming all over the place, the drive is so nice to keep your profile on. I have 3 360s in my house and between me and my kids we are always on different machines.

One more thing, if you have multiple players online you can get into open NAT issues depending on your router and whatnot. 

You've been extremely helpful!!  I'll leave the kiddie games on Xbox 1 and the mature games on Xbox 2.  I have an external HDD so I'll just use that like a thumb drive (I've done it before). 

I tried the license transfer on Friday (www.xbox.com/drm).  I had some problems and had to call M$. The MS customer service chick (with the sexiest voice, ever--AND she actually engaged in small talk with me!!) said it would take up to 10 days to actually complete the transfer (!?).  At which point will I get the opportunity to decide which games go where?

I am only familiar with the online process but I think you may have screwed yourself. If you went through it over the phone and just told Mrs. Sexy Voice to transfer all of your shit then no, you won't be able to choose then, the choice would already have been made to transfer everything. When you do it online there is an actual list of all of you purchases and you'd go down the list checking off what you want to transfer. Only thing I can think of is maybe you can call customer service again and explain your situation, maybe they can get it to how you want. It kind of sucks though cause you'd have to go through the 50 titles one by one over the phone. Doing it online is the way to go if you have the option.