Live has been screwing up almost royally for the past several weeks, and today I can't connect at all so I've just unplugged my 360 from the Internet altogether until their crap gets sorted out. However, now when I try to load a game it says the save "...relies on content that is no longer present. Some objects may no longer be available." I load it up to see what's missing and it looks like any content I got from DLC is gone, most notably from the Anchorage pack (because I use the Chinese Stealth armor and Gauss rifle a lot, I notice it right away). These omissions don't happen if I'm connected to Live.

So is this content dependent on a Live connection? If MS's service is screwing up and isn't even available, can I not even play with content that I *paid* for? If so, what the hell kind of idiotic decision was that? And if so, thanks for making my decision on whether or not to buy Vegas an easy one.

If this is a different 360 then the one you bought the content on your going to have to transfer the content license to your new 360 and then redownload the content and it will work.

This is my 3rd 360, but I've had this one a while...and I'm fairly certain it's the one I started playing Fallout 3 with (and thus the same console that I originally downloaded the content with).

It's just frustrating, as the area I live in has some of the worst connection rates I know of, and on top of all the xbox live issues before the latest update, it meant that I could only connect to live about half the time and if I wasn't connected, it seemed the DLC stuff wouldn't load with the game.