Oblivion General Technical Issues Thread, What’s buggin’ yas? Options

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

I didn’t see a thread for general issues with Oblivion that has been posted in in the last decade, so I decided to make a new one, because yesterday I ran into an issue that I think is pretty major.

I decided that I wanted to add the Wizard’s Tower DLC to Saryn’s game before she went up north to Bruma for her last recommendation. So I went to the Microsoft Store on the Xbox Series X and tried to purchase and download it. First of all, it’s weird that I needed to purchase it because I’m positive I had already done so many years ago before my Xbox360 died. Ok whatever, I thought it was probably just because it was so long ago and it was less than $2. It gave an error message saying something went wrong and to try again later. I stopped after that and forgot about it for a few days and tried again. Same error message. I looked it up to see if there were known issues with this, and sure enough, there were. I tried things people said worked for them but no dice. I tried about 20 times or so. This morning I looked at my bank account. It charged me each time I tried. I had to contact Microsoft support and now I have refunds pending, but still no Wizard Tower DLC. Frankly, I’m not sure if you can even get this DLC on Xbox anymore since they shut down the Xbox360 storefront like just last month. I don’t expect this to be resolved, but I thought I would make a post about my experience to serve as a warning for anyone else trying to get this DLC on Xbox Series X/S or XboxOne.

[Lena Wolf]

I think probably Microsoft messed up with this. Probably? Ha!

I still have the original Xbox360 but the servers have closed already for a couple of years here in Europe. So the result was that I got locked out of all my local accounts too. No way to access those save games, can't login. Because it appears that an Xbox360 account can be either "pure local" or "online", and of course mine were "online" because I used to buy stuff in the store. Now the closed the servers and "online" accounts won't log you into Xbox360 locally without logging you into Xbox Live first, which is impossible.

I did find information on the Microsoft website concerning this. It amounts to "Suck it up, Princess - time to by an Xbox One".

However, I can still play Xbox360 games on the console, but I had to make a new account, local only, carefully avoiding any attempts to connect to Xbox Live, because that will lock it.

I understand from Renee that you have a better experience over in the US, these things are managed regionally. But it looks like may be it is coming to you too.

Anyway, since you are on Xbox Next Gen, you should not have such issues. But yeah, I am not surprised they messed up with the DLC! They probably figured it's an old game, and everyone is buying it on Steam or GOG now...

<rant over/>