Dealing with XBOX Support and Microsoft support, in general, is almost always a painful experience, especially if you are a technical person yourself. Very rarely have I dealt with someone who actually seems to know what they are talking about and is actually able to resolve a problem. Most of the time they drive me up the wall and I end up having to explain to them how their own systems work, while they give me pointless suggestions, and repeat themselves over and over again forcing me to do things which will never work multiple times, and completely ignore the answers I have already given them and the conversation just goes round in circles.
I thought it was high time I start keeping a record of these wonderful live chats for posterity.
Below is an ongoing issue I was having after buying Crash Bandicoot for my son, and the game simply would not run on his xbox. I deleted and re-downloaded it 10 times, I got my purchase refunded and bought the game again (twice more), but for some reason, the 2nd purchase did not show on my account, and the support pleb is simply unable to get past that fact. As you can imagine, it is so hard not to lose your temper in these situations, and as you can see the support op just disconnected me in the end, which is pretty much always how it ends when they cannot actually solve the issue.
Unsurprisingly, his solution of buy the game again on a different profile was complete nonsense as well, and made no difference.
Sadly this is not the worst example of xbox support by a long shot.
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I hate to hear that. What is going on that has you frustrated?
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I’m sorry but those details didn’t come over with the chat.
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Thank you for that if you will give me a moment to review that case.
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I see this is where you are being asked to repurchase “Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex.”
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Can I get the gamertag you purchased the game on because on Lord Michaels all I see is the refund.
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If you would please go to https://account.microsoft.com and you will be able to see the order history we show on our end.
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and that is why I then replied to you with “well I do not know what to tell you, since I have no access to your systems. But I went to the web site, I clicked BUY NOW, the purchase completed, and I own the game again.
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Had you downloaded this game to your children’s Xbox?
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Did you do a license transfer on your children’s 360 console, because their console would require the console license for other profiles to play this game.
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Was you console the original console you purchased the game on?
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As previous agents have told you the reason you cannot download and play it now is because there purchase was refunded. It is possible that your console was the first console it downloaded to resulting in a glitch where the license wasn’t fully removed from your console.
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On your children’s 360 please log in to your profile and follow these step so you can see your transaction history…
https://support.xbox.com/en-US/billing/xbox-subscriptions/check-purchase-history-on-xbox-360
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What you are pointing to is an Xbox 360 theme not the game. Now what is the email address you are presently logged in to that account with?
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When you go to Settings>Account>Download History are you able to see the game.
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On the Xbox
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When you try to select download again what happens?
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What error does it give you when you attempt to play it once downloaded?
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This is because when the refund was processed it didn’t fully revoke the license. This is a flaw with the Xbox 360, the fact you can still play this on the console that has your console license is immaterial. What you will have to do is purchase this game on another Xbox Live profile so the license can be obtained. The reason I have tried to get you to look at your transaction history is so you can see that this game was not repurchased.
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I asked you to go to https://account.microsoft.com and to log in to your account to view your order history where you would see the refund, but would not see another transaction.
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As I stated earlier since you got a refund for this game on this account you will need to purchase it again on an account that had not have the license on it. Is there anything else I can help you with?
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step 1: I went to to website
step 2: I found game
step 3: i clicked buy now
step 4: process completed
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Sir, as both me and Jeana (on 8 Aug) have informed you the purchase of this game does not appear on your account, a license for this game does not appear on your account since the refund on 7 Aug. The fact it still shows in your marketplace is a glitch in our system that sometimes allows someone to continue to play a game that was refunded.
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i purchased the game
you refunded me
I purchased the game again
now you want me to purchase a 3rd time
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