This article needs additional citations for. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. The service allows users to download or purchase including both games and full Xbox One and Xbox 360 titlesfor existing games, along with other miscellaneous content such as and. In late-2017, Xbox Store was replaced on Xbox One byas the standard digital storefront for all devices. Most of all, some of delisted downloadable contents of the respective Xbox 360 games are also included on this edition. Such games are added to the service after successfully passing through a system that prevents inappropriate content from appearing in games and ensures that games meet certain technical standards and do not misrepresent their content. Other movie studios have since supported the service including and as announced at 2007. At,the and announced their support for the service. At launch, the Video Store encountered widespread problems such as lengthy download times, duplicate billing for the same content, and downloads that could not complete, or for which users would have had to repay to complete. Starting on March 13, 2007, all episodes from South Park's 11th season were offered uncensored. In late 2009, the Video Marketplace was replaced by theand later accompanied by a Zune Music Marketplace. Both Zune Marketplaces were replaced by the new and services in late 2012. This means that to access the content, the user either needs to be signed on to Xbox Live using their Gamertag, or be playing on the original console the content was purchased on. As a result, users with replacement consoles cannot use previously downloaded content without being connected to Xbox Live. This has the effect of restricting usage of purchased content when no Internet connection is available. An additional wrinkle is added when there are multiple xbox live store on one console. In this case, all accounts can normally share content when it was downloaded on that system. However, if the system is replaced, then only the actual Xbox Live account to which the content is tied can make use of it a exists whereby the non-purchasing gamertag can use the content, but only if the original purchasing gamertag is signed into Xbox Live as a secondary profile. Microsoft's original attempts to resolve these issues were limited to transferring licenses to consoles replaced under warranty. This required contacting Microsoft support, and the console must have been replaced through Microsoft itself or a warranty from the retailer where it was originally purchased. License transfers could not be performed in the case of xbox live store voluntary upgrade e. As of June 2008, Microsoft has released an online tool that allows users to transfer licenses from the console where they were originally purchased to another. This is done in a two-step process, where all licenses are first migrated on the server side, and then xbox live store onto the new console. To prevent abuse, this process can only be performed every four months. Licenses remain bound to the Gamertag regardless, so users who store their profiles on can continue to use purchased content on any console when signed into the service. A notable incident was Microsoft charging for a map pack that developer desired to provide at no cost although it was made free four months later in September 2007. Exacerbating the controversy, made claims that Microsoft forced companies to charge for content the company itself wanted to distribute free. In this case, Microsoft Publishing was responsible for setting the price, with this not actually being a policy of the Xbox team or Xbox Live Marketplace as was implied. Free content is indeed possible, but much of the free content is promotional in nature, such as xbox live store titles and. In June 2013, Microsoft announced the discontinuation of points in favor of credit using local currencies, which took effect in an Xbox 360 software update released on August 26, 2013. Even some free content, such as downloadable extras for retail games, is impossible to obtain in certain regions, despite there being no legal or censorship problems an example of this would be ; while the first pack was initially available free worldwide, the Spring 2007 update made both unavailable to many Xbox 360 owners. In the case of New Zealand, all child accounts were banned from downloading any marketplace content in Mid-June. As of October 15, 2010 these are still locked from downloading anything apart from software updates and user-created content, no matter what the rating. Archived from on April 28, 2009. Archived from on Xbox live store 13, 2007. Archived from on September 30, 2007. The New York Times Company. Archived from on August 26, 2009. Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Xbox live store. Archived from on March 4, 2010. Archived from on October 20, 2007.
