Jan 05 2010
A Simple Fact about Xbox that Blew My Mind
So the other day I got yelled at by my roommate because I saved over one of his old games on something I thought he was done playing.
Me: I thought you were done!
Roommate: Nope! Why didn’t you just make a new save file?
Me: It only lets you do one! This isn’t Mass Effect.
Roommate: You’re an idiot. Just sign in with a different profile and start a new game.
Me: What-what-whaaaaaat?
So some games, like Mass Effect or Dragon Age, allow you have multiple save accounts using one gamer profile, but others, like Ninja Gaiden or Saints Row let you create a new save account of simply sign in using another gamer profile. Not another gamerTAG, just another user account that you’ve made on the system. WHAT THE HELL HOW DID I NEVER KNOW THIS?
Is this common knowledge, and I truly am an idiot as my roommate says? I never once knew you could do this, and this would have saved me a lot of grief in and endless amount of games over the past few years. If you didn’t know this before, consider your mind as blown as mine was.
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haha yeah you’re alone on this one. but no worries
i even got a free month of xbox live gold when i made a new account!
that was the first thing i learned^^
cause i tried to load a slot, which my friend was using with his account, but there was no file
I think you’re alone. This is something my friends and I have known about for a long time.
I think I have to agree with MacGyver. This is fairly common knowledge that doesn’t need an instruction manual to figure out.
Think of “Profiles” on your 360 as if it were a PS2 memory card. You wrote your name on your PS2 memory card and that’s your “Gamertag”. It houses all the saves from your game. If someone plays a game with your “Gamertag” or memory card it’ll use your saves and erase your games. So you use a different memory card or in this case a different Gamertag.
I’m sure I can’t be the only one that thought this upon creation of my gamertag.
I guess it’s not really a huge deal unless you share your Xbox with someone else, which I am guessing you do.
My girl plays my Xbox, but she stays away from most of my games so I don’t really pay attention to it.
I did not know this.
Although to be fair I’ve only had my 360 for a few months and don’t share it with anyone but still.
Dude! Really? You run a website. At least your blog is awesome. Plus, I didn’t even know I had an outlet in my bathroom until a few days ago. It’s in the mirror cabinet. Who puts it there?
If you weren’t so pretty I’d have to take your xbox away from you. Even my girlfriend knows to sign me out and her in when she wants to play GH5.
roommate 1 : tassi 0
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooob!
Just kidding, kind of, but seriously.
Dig the content. Thanks for writing.
It took me awhile to figure out the profile save thing. After years of in game save files and memory cards, the xbox profile system isn’t the easiest to use. I still just want save file #1 #2 and #3 in my games.
u really are an idiot..
but then again may be u r not much of a gamer.. even though i’m not either and i still knew abt this..
I knew about this but still might have done the same thing as you, Paul. Mostly because I live alone/a sad existence and don’t have to think about two people playing on the same console.
One thing you may not know is expanding your Friend’s List with a Friend of Friend’s list, essentially creating a dummy silver account. I’m a part of a community of “older, mature gamers” (although we’re not necessarily older in years, per se, and we’re pretty immature with each other) and we run into issues with only being able to have 100 people on your list. So what we do is, we create a Friend of Friend’s list to expand on that list for leagues, tournaments and even specific games. You just look at your friend, the FoF list, and see what who’s online on it’s friend’s list. Works great.
I knew about it but, I mean, I don’t think it makes you an idiot if you didn’t. I found out about it because I asked my roommate not to play my save game and he said it wasn’t there. Panicked, I signed on and my game was still there and his wasn’t.
Retared? Am I missing something?
yeah your a fucking idiot just like my roommates
To my knowledge, your roommate is retarded. I have never known *any* difference between a “gamer profile” and a “gamertag.” And personally, first off, I would say the retard is the one playing a game with someone else’s tag loaded, IMO. But also, people could kiss my ass if they think I’m going to sit there making profile after profile, I want my achievements and I can’t amass them all across different profiles.