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Actually, there weren't really any purchases for the original Xbox. Xbox Live back then was purely a online gaming service.Xbox Live Marketplace was a new feature for the Xbox360, where they introduced Microsoft Points as they payment mechanism.The only thing that happened during the Xbox shutdown was thus the online gaming part. Which was to be expected because the original Xbox architecture was limiting adding features for Live on the Xbox360. At the time, there were only really around 1000 users still playing original Xbox games online (most of them were played on Xbox360s, and the vast majority of those were Halo 2 - all the other top 10 games were having only 10-100 players while Halo 2 was topping 1000 daily.Now, when Microsoft cuts off the Xbox360, that would be interesting. So far, they haven't even when they shut down services - i.e., if you have Games for Windows Live purchases, you can still get those purchases even though GfWL is long gone.For other platforms, it depends. For Apple, make sure you let iTunes download a copy of the app - as long as you have the file backed up locally, it can be installed to you. Android is a bit trickier - you may need to root your device so you can manually back up the APK.
Actually, there weren't really any purchases for the original Xbox. Xbox Live back then was purely a online gaming service.
Xbox Live Marketplace was a new feature for the Xbox360, where they introduced Microsoft Points as they payment mechanism.
The only thing that happened during the Xbox shutdown was thus the online gaming part. Which was to be expected because the original Xbox architecture was limiting adding features for Live on the Xbox360. At the time, there were only really around 1000 users still playing original Xbox games online (most of them were played on Xbox360s, and the vast majority of those were Halo 2 - all the other top 10 games were having only 10-100 players while Halo 2 was topping 1000 daily.
Now, when Microsoft cuts off the Xbox360, that would be interesting. So far, they haven't even when they shut down services - i.e., if you have Games for Windows Live purchases, you can still get those purchases even though GfWL is long gone.
For other platforms, it depends. For Apple, make sure you let iTunes download a copy of the app - as long as you have the file backed up locally, it can be installed to you. Android is a bit trickier - you may need to root your device so you can manually back up the APK.
