As you may already know, Xbox Live support is going down for all original Xbox games this April. Someone should really remind Microsoft that they said April as DLC for original Xbox games have already been taken down.
Reader Cliff pointed us to this NeoGAF thread where a number of people are complaining that they can't download DLC for original Xbox games anymore. Joystiq looked into the matter as well and found the same issues.
This whole ordeal raises an issue I never considered before. Once the online service is taken down, you may never get to play a digital only title ever again. Well, unless you illegally download the title or content of course.
[Update: Microsoft contacted Joystiq and stated this DLC business is an error. Microsoft is working on fixing this issue and people will be able to download original content until April 15 once the issue is resolved.]
Original Xbox DLC - Already Dead and Gone? [NeoGAF, Thanks, Cliff!]
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10:00 PM on 02.10.2010
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Forza Motorsport had DLC. I thnk Conker did too.
I mean really we're just thinking about the future. 20 years from now (if that) game collectors are going to have a fun time trying to get the DLC, or the games themselves for 360.
I'd recommend getting a hard drive transfer cable and copying everything to a separate hard drive so when Microsoft decides to pull the plug on the 360, hundreds, if not thousands of dollars will not have been spent in vain. :)
It's unlikely it'll vanish based on the fact that if people can obtain and upload roms of time limited games on obscure online add'ons for the SNES such popular system DLC should be fine...legally on the other hand :/
It's just something we've never had to worry about until now. My Atari-NeoGeo collection won't just disappear, even though most the support from the companies has stopped...unless of course somebody comes into my house and steals them..or it burns down. Haha. CDs and DVD's have the same problem as the data will be gone in 70 or so years. Of course I won't be around then to care so I'm not worried. :)
Halo 2 has 2 maps that can only be obtained through original xbox live DLC, they will be lost forever too.
Star Wars Battlefront 2 also has 2 DLC items, a free one and a premium one.
How can you be forgetting the best game to ever grace XBL?
Mechassault!
If I remember correctly there were 1 or 2 Mech/Map DLC updates for the original Mechassault at like $5 each. Oh how I miss that game. :(
"DLC for Xbox v1 content should be back up. Community was totally right on this point. - Marc Whitten XBL Honcho" It was posted on his Twitter.
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