So I’m back again, here to answer F.A.Q’s with what’s been posted so far. I think the best thing to do is to create a Sub-Title with the Question itself. Rather than Quoting each of you and answering the Question individually...
Will These Games Be Available In My Download History On My XBox 360 Account After July 2024?Yes, according to the announcement of the XBox 360 Marketplace being De-Listed. Anything that you have purchased in the past, before the De-Listing Date, will be stored in your Download History. So even if you apply for the Item you wish to Download, but do not Download it. It will be stored in your Download History. Meaning that you can download it at another time in the future.
Will Redeemable Codes Still Be Available For Me To Use After July 2024?If the Code supports use for XBox One/XBox Series X & XBox 360 Consoles, such as 2-Day Trials, 2 Week Trial etc. I would say you would still be OK to use them after July 2024.
If it’s a Code that’s solely based for the XBox 360. Then it will likely only be Redeemable until the end of July 2024.
I'm not 100% sure, but I would even say this includes XBox Live Trial Cards that are solely aimed for XBox 360 only. As an example, I’ve got a 7-Day Trial Card for Disney Infinity 1.0 and a 2 Week Trial Card for Tomb Raider 2013. These Games are XBox 360 Only, and those Codes might not be available for me to use after July 2024.
I would strongly suggest you all check your Redeemable Codes if you got any, especially if they are for XBox 360. And if you have any that need to be used for Games you wish to play in the future. Use them sooner rather than later. If your not going to use them at all, maybe give them to people you know that need them, or post them on TA for someone else to use on the Site overall.
Why Have You Listed Backward Compatible Content When It’s Just Going To Be Available in The Future?Well, potentially, I could have not bothered, have it removed on this Listing and just leave it all for you to figure out. The issue here is that obviously we “believe” Microsoft will keep the Backward Compatible XBox 360 & XBox Original Games available for us on the XBox One, XBox Series X/S and XBox.com future.
However, at the moment, there is no guarantee that the Downloadable Content for these Backward Compatible games will be available for us in the future.
There’s some XBox 360 Games that are Backward Compatible on the XBox One/XBox Series X that are available to us, but the Download Content that contains Achievements for the respective games cannot be purchased or obtained.
The same can be said the other way round in which for some games, you can use your XBox One, XBox One X/S, to get Downloadable Content for your XBox 360 Games. Then you have to go into your Download History, and download them from there.
The other area that someone mentioned that I’m thinking about, is that some Users on the Site (probably not many now), still play on their XBox 360 Consoles, or they have Profiles/Accounts that play XBox 360 Games only, but do not have access to XBox One’s/XBox Series X/S’s to download anything (well XBox.com is an option). So I guess the Listings of these games is there for them as well.
I might be wrong. But even though the Games use the XBox One/XBox Series X/S Stores. For some of the Backward Compatible games. They require you to load up the game still, and get the content through the Store, and in this case, an Emulated XBox 360 Marketplace Store feature will be used to get the Content you need, downloaded to your account. If this was to be removed after July 2024, that might give us a problem.
For me, truthfully, I have a whack load of Dummy Accounts, that I use on my XBox 360 Consoles to get Online Achievements easily with. But they don’t really use the XBox One Console & Games that much. So I’ll likely be using the List myself, to get the Content I need to get for these Dummy Accounts.
Perhaps, what I’ll do in the long run, is if we hear from Microsoft anymore about the De-Listings and what’s going on, I’ll Edit or Remove the Backward Compatible stuff. But for now, I think I’ll leave it for a little while, cause it’s early days, and we’ll have to see what’s going on I guess.
Why Have You Listed Content For Stuff That’s Been De-Listed, Discontinued Or Not Needed Anymore?To answer the first area of the question. Some of the Items that are De-Listed already, could possibly still be used and playable. I’m not saying everything is, but some of it. You can use the Items that are De-Listed as well, to give you a reminder if you already got them and what you can obtain from your Download History.
Some of the De-Listed Items could still be obtainable, if you find a Redeemable Code tied to the respective Game, or Download Content. Remember, as said above, Redeemable Codes for XBox 360 Games & Content might not be available for us to use after July 2024. So keep that in mind.
The 2nd area of the question is that Yes, some of the Download Content tied to Discontinued Achievements might not be needed anymore, or is completely useless to download. But on the odd occasion, even though Games do get Discontinued Achievements. Some of them do come back and go up and running. As an example, off the back of my head. I keep hearing people saying that the Servers for
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Achievements &
Assassin's Creed: Revelations Achievements, do come back Up and Running on odd occasions. At the time of writing, I think the Servers for
Assassin's Creed: Revelations Achievements is working as we speak.
Obviously for some companies such as EA – Electronic Arts or 2K Game, then it's likely never going to happen, geting their Servers Fixed. So I could potentially remove them or so.
Like the previous question, I think I’ll keep them for a short period of time. And if reaches a stage where we don't need the Content anymore, then I can always remove it at some stage.
Why Have You Listed Odd Bits Of Content And Some That Are Even Backward Compatible?To put it simply, I feel as though some of the Content I’ve listed is tied to towards the Full Experience of the Game itself. And I feel as though if you don’t Download it, your not gaining the full experience out of the game.
The other honest reason is most of this kind of Content I’ve listed, not including Compatibility Packs, Installers and other Downloads is Free of charge. So I just don’t want any of you missing out something that’s a Freebee.
Perhaps I’m being too generous here. But I just don’t like anyone missing out an opportunity or so.
OverallI have likely gone OTT with this Listing. And probably have things Listed on here, that are simply not needed. But like I said above, I think it’s because I just don’t want anyone missing out on Content that we don't know or know if it's going to be available or not after July 2024.
Only time can tell on this subject overall. For now, I’ll keep what I’ve done and it will get updated whenever people give me more Info, or if I find anything else with anymore Games I got or get. I’ve actually ordered some more Games recently for the XBox 360, so I’ll see if anything has Content needed to be Download, and I’ll update this Listing as soon as I can.
Thank you everyone for all your Comments & Support. I’ll keep you all posted
