Hi Lucky, I can confirm that the DRM for Carcassonne expansions does not function properly. I just recently had my Xbox 360 red ring and needed a replacement. When loading up Carcassonne, my expansion pack corrupts immediately. I am logged into Live on the purchasing account.

Keep in mind that this is for the King and Baron pack. I have never downloaded Rivers II, so it would seem the issue affects both packs.

If anyone knows how to get a refund for the pack that no longer functions, I would love to know. :)

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Interesting side note..

Has anyone actually tried to play the expansion pack after you get the 'DLC is corrupt' message? I am still able to play King and Baron normally, even after I get the message. I didn't even think to try it. Although I cannot stop the message from popping up every time (even after deleting and redownloading everything to memory card).

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Alright, I think I might understand what's happening now.

I noticed that I have the option for Rivers II in my Carcassonne now, which is odd considering I've never downloaded it. This lead me to another avenue of thought:

What if the corruption message is not for the pack you downloaded, but for the pack you didn't download? Could it be that my game is looking for Rivers and it's not there?

Maybe other people are getting the error becaue they only downloaded River, and not K&B?

I'm assuming alot here.. it's a big stretch to think all of you are getting the error without really checking whether or not it works. Rivers looks pretty similar to Rivers II, so do yourself a service and really check to see if the pack is malfunctioning. Check to see if you have the Rivers II option, and then check to see if you really do get those extra tiles. You might even have a K&B option. If you do, it may be looking for K&B, not finding it and throwing up an error.

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Well, I tested out the above theory. As much as it pained me, I bought Rivers II to see if the error message would stop. It didn't.

As it is now, everything still works fine on my end.. all expansions function, but I get the error on loading the game everytime. Strange. I'll stop posting now. :)

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You didn't need to waste your time, I could have given you all the answers.  I have both expansions, I need to re-download at least ONE of them in order for the game to detect both are there and use them after the error.

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Yeah, I thought I was on to something yesterday. Turns out, the expansion disappeared again today. So I'm basically in the same position you are. :( I have to redownload it every time I play for it to function. Ah well.

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Hey, Joystiq and Xbox360fanboy have just posted the news that MS will be giving Carcassonne away during the 5ive celebration of Xbox Live. This is an opportunity to raise more awareness of this problem; head over to either or both sites and post about it, won't you?

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Victoly!

Sorry to bump an old thread, but I wanted to make sure that those of you with this concern were updated. I have been given word that the team is aware of your concerns with this error and is working to resolve the issue. We asppreciate your patience in this matter.

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 Lucky 13 X wrote:

Sorry to bump an old thread, but I wanted to make sure that those of you with this concern were updated. I have been given word that the team is aware of your concerns with this error and is working to resolve the issue. We asppreciate your patience in this matter.

That's good news, and thanks for the post. I heard a rumor that there might be a fix in the Fall Update. Is that a rumor on which a betting man could risk some dough?

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 blakbuzzrd wrote:

 Lucky 13 X wrote:

Sorry to bump an old thread, but I wanted to make sure that those of you with this concern were updated. I have been given word that the team is aware of your concerns with this error and is working to resolve the issue. We asppreciate your patience in this matter.

That's good news, and thanks for the post. I heard a rumor that there might be a fix in the Fall Update. Is that a rumor on which a betting man could risk some dough?

Wow, if thats true I would cry tears of joy and become an Xbox fanboy once again. (since having to deal with a broken 360 and the DRM issues and non-transferred licenses I've bought two PS2s and a PSP).  Thanks for the update, Lucky!

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 blakbuzzrd wrote:

 Lucky 13 X wrote:

Sorry to bump an old thread, but I wanted to make sure that those of you with this concern were updated. I have been given word that the team is aware of your concerns with this error and is working to resolve the issue. We asppreciate your patience in this matter.

That's good news, and thanks for the post. I heard a rumor that there might be a fix in the Fall Update. Is that a rumor on which a betting man could risk some dough?

No, such updates are title updates made for the game specifically. It does not involve any updates to the dashboard itself as far as I am aware.

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Thanks for the update Lucky. Since the issue is with the DRM of the game, does that mean Microsoft can patch it without Sierra's input? Or do they have to pressure Sierra to patch it? In any event, let's hope it goes well since we'll soon see many more expansion purchases after today.

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I'm currently in the process of getting my content re-licensed to my new machine.  I hope that this will resolve my issues with both the Carcassonne expansions as well as other games that have the same problem like Puzzle Quest.

 Banstyle wrote:

Thanks for the update Lucky. Since the issue is with the DRM of the game, does that mean Microsoft can patch it without Sierra's input? Or do they have to pressure Sierra to patch it? In any event, let's hope it goes well since we'll soon see many more expansion purchases after today.

Sorry don't know those details, or if I found out whether I could share the company's praactices.

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 Lucky 13 X wrote:

 blakbuzzrd wrote:

 Lucky 13 X wrote:

Sorry to bump an old thread, but I wanted to make sure that those of you with this concern were updated. I have been given word that the team is aware of your concerns with this error and is working to resolve the issue. We asppreciate your patience in this matter.

That's good news, and thanks for the post. I heard a rumor that there might be a fix in the Fall Update. Is that a rumor on which a betting man could risk some dough?

No, such updates are title updates made for the game specifically. It does not involve any updates to the dashboard itself as far as I am aware.

Hmm. Okay, then, do you have any information you can share regarding when the fix is likely to be implemented?

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Same problem here on my Halo 3 box and my Elite with both my gamertags. The river loads but the Baron and King expansion doesn't and I always get the notice even when I redownload all of it. I hope they fix this, I actually paid for my copy of this game before it was free and everyone I've played with at my house loves it. Great game, I hope they fix it.

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It's a licensing issue with all DLC. Anyone who had a system crash on them, and got it replaced by MS should call up and start demanding replacement points to re-purchase the content. IMPORTENT - You NEED a DIFFRENT gamertag to get the MS points and to purchase the content for it to be licensed to the new system.
Any other situation, you are unfortunately out of luck until either it's fixed, or MS removes/enhances the DRM.

The DRM on the 360 works on 2 levels, the original system serial number and the Gamertag; in that order. Meaning, if anyone using the original system that the content was downloaded on tried to access it, it's unlocked immediately because the serial number matches up. If the serial number does not match up, then the content checks Xbox Live to ensure the license is proper on the gamertag. If game makers decide to be lazy, the problems listed here happens. Or at least smiler problems happen. I downloaded content at a friends place, and brought my HDD back to my place knowing the restrictions. Well, even when connected to Live the game wouldn't register the content. After about 5 months, I got MS points refunded, and downloaded the content using a different gamertag, and everything worked just fine.

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What is everything in the Rivers II expansion?  Just a longer river?

 RedNBlueAllOver wrote:

What is everything in the Rivers II expansion?  Just a longer river?

Yup, just a few more river tiles. Not worth it in my opinion.

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 KapuKapper wrote:

Okie dokie. I downloaded the Rivers II expansion pack and it worked fine. Then my Xbox red-ringed... I got the unit replaced and kept my same hard-drive.

Everything works... except the Rivers II pack. Everytime Carcassonne loads, I get an "Expansion Load Failed" message, which instructs me to download it again. Downloading from within the game will let me use the pack, but the next time the game loads, I get the same error again!

I've gone so far as to delete/redownload the whole game and the expansion and it still doesn't work...

Anyone else get this error message? Or, even better, does anyone know how to fix this? Xbox phone support tells me to contact Sierra, and then they're no help either...

A side note: I tested all my other XBLA games w/expansions work fine. It's just Carcassonne...

Thanks in advance! 

the only thing that i know that will fix your problem is just delete the whole game off and redownload again.  i know your losing everything that you work for in game but i have had that happened me in a another game and had to do the same thing.

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 oh pickles wrote:

 KapuKapper wrote:

Okie dokie. I downloaded the Rivers II expansion pack and it worked fine. Then my Xbox red-ringed... I got the unit replaced and kept my same hard-drive.

Everything works... except the Rivers II pack. Everytime Carcassonne loads, I get an "Expansion Load Failed" message, which instructs me to download it again. Downloading from within the game will let me use the pack, but the next time the game loads, I get the same error again!

I've gone so far as to delete/redownload the whole game and the expansion and it still doesn't work...

Anyone else get this error message? Or, even better, does anyone know how to fix this? Xbox phone support tells me to contact Sierra, and then they're no help either...

A side note: I tested all my other XBLA games w/expansions work fine. It's just Carcassonne...

Thanks in advance! 

the only thing that i know that will fix your problem is just delete the whole game off and redownload again.  i know your losing everything that you work for in game but i have had that happened me in a another game and had to do the same thing.

No, that doesn't fix the problem at all, and you clearly don't know what you're talking about as doing that for this game won't affect your progress or game stats either.

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 Lucky 13 X wrote:

Sorry to bump an old thread, but I wanted to make sure that those of you with this concern were updated. I have been given word that the team is aware of your concerns with this error and is working to resolve the issue. We asppreciate your patience in this matter.

Good to know.  I've been considering getting the expansions.  Now I just need to wait a little bit.

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Same problem here - any update on when this will be fixed?

AJB

I'd just about given up on the whole thing. I just thought I'd poke my head in the forum tonight to see if anybody had news! It's good to hear that the right people know about it now. Thanks for the info, Lucky.

Once it's fixed... I'll download King & Baron. (Been wanting to try out the new rules with that one.)

I'll finally be able to play Carcassonne again without anger...

 KapuKapper wrote:

I'd just about given up on the whole thing. I just thought I'd poke my head in the forum tonight to see if anybody had news! It's good to hear that the right people know about it now. Thanks for the info, Lucky.

I hate to say this, but I get the sense that Lucky's posting here, curiously coinciding as it did with the free distro of Carcassonne during the 5ive celebration, was more to allay anxiety than to provide answers. It was more a PR statement than an actual update on the progress of the fix.

Meaning, we aren't any further here.

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I highly doubt this will ever be fixed, right along with Puzzle Quest broken DRM, and Catan disconnections.  The motto for XBLA titles is ship'em and leave'em.

Well... Vivendi and Activision have merged. That was a surprise.

From the press release:

"Mike Griffith will serve as President and Chief Executive Officer of Activision Publishing, which after closing will include the Sierra Entertainment, Sierra Online and Vivendi Games Mobile divisions in addition to the Activision business."

Maybe after all the dust has settled, someone in the resulting structure... Mr. Griffith, even, will get on this problem.

 

When I said that I was using massive sarcasm quotes.

 Tokeio wrote:

I highly doubt this will ever be fixed, right along with Puzzle Quest broken DRM, and Catan disconnections.  The motto for XBLA titles is ship'em and leave'em.

I love your signature and your post was pretty darn spot on too.

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 Lucky 13 X wrote:

Sorry to bump an old thread, but I wanted to make sure that those of you with this concern were updated. I have been given word that the team is aware of your concerns with this error and is working to resolve the issue. We asppreciate your patience in this matter.

So if you happen to talk to the team again please tell it would be nice to know if the problems are fixed.  I have MS points that can be easily spent on other things.  So if they don't want to make money.......

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