Hey guys, here's a really off the wall question for you all.
As of late, a bunch of us guys have been making Saturday nights the hang out night at my place, where everyone gets together and plays games, watch shows, hang, whatever. One of the problems we've been running into though is on the XBox 360 and the way it handles profiles. We play a lot of multiplayer games, and for a while I was able to log into my profile and start unlocking achievements but everyone else was having to create dummy accounts. This got old real quick, and people started to bring over there gamer profiles on memory cards, but the draw back to this is that the 360 console doesn't /copy/ your profile to the memory card; it /moves/ it. This wasn't a royal pain in the ass at first....
Now we're playing some four player games, and as long as I'm playing as one of the players we only need to transfer three profiles, the problem is the 360 only has two memory card slots, so we have to move someone's profile onto my 360 and then put the other two memory cards into the slots. The real royal pain in the ass about this is that now that person's profile is on my 360 and only mine. Its no longer on his, nor his memory card.
Now that you've read half a book about what we've been doing, let me actually get to my question.
Instead of doing all this transfer crap on the memory cards, can't we just use the Gamer Profile recovery option to pull down a copy of their profiles right from the Live! servers, at which point their profile will still be at home, on there systems, and there will also be a copy of them on my HDD? They all seem reluctant to do it this way, but I really don't see why it would be an issue. I mean, hell, even if it did somehow suck their profiles off of their 360's at home, after they get home, they'd be able to "recover" it again anyway. Is there anything I'm missing? Has anyone tried this?
If my place wasn't such the hang out place, I'd try it with my account over at someone else's house, but so far I've been the hosting location.
