According to this "loyal gamer", Microsoft is 'screwing' gamers every time they purchase content from Xbox Live Marketplace and explains how he felt Microsoft mislead consumers with the "Data Migration Kit" during the Xbox 360 Elite launch. This lengthy blog entry walks us through the upgrading his Premium Xbox 360 to an Elite, the problems with Xbox Live Marketplace downloadable content DRM, the frustration of Xbox customer support, and offers Microsoft some possible solutions.

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"Just look at it this way... Let's say you went to the store and bought a movie. Now let's say you wanted to upgrade to a new 1080p upscaling DVD player with an HDMI output a few months later. What would you do if the DVD would only play the first chapter of the movie unless you were connected to the internet and were the only person watching it? You'd be a little upset to say the least. It's still a DVD player... It will play the movie; you just have to access the content in a slightly different way. Do you think you should have to provide the movie studio with a receipt saying you traded in your old DVD player, just to watch the movie you paid good momeny for? What if you wanted to watch that DVD in a different room, should you have to unhook the 1st DVD player and bring it into another room to watch it, or would it make more sense to just pop it into the other DVD player that's already set up in the other room? I know, it sounds rediculous, but that's EXACTLY what Microsoft doing with downloadable content from the Xbox Live Marketplace, and nobody seems to be addressing the issue."