Originally posted by: unclebudmeaning one has to have Live connected to play singleplayer offline?
No, you don't have to be connected to Xbox Live, you have to have the Xbox Live service to play it offline. Once you sign up for Xbox Live, you get an ID that is stored to your Hard Drive. That ID is what is needed to run PSO. The reason that they give for that is because the Japanese version of PSO for Xbox was included in the Xbox Live starter Kit as the free game. Since the Japanese version required the purchase of Xbox Live to play, this trickled over to the America version since Microsoft didn't feel like recoding the game (Sega had turned over the final code for PSO to Microsoft back around November or December IIRC.)
Why they took this long to release a finished product is beyond my knowledge.
As for the voucher, it is for buying Xbox Live and any Live enabled game. Not just for buying PSO. Also Microsoft has is selling a "
free" USB keyboard adaptor for PSO. Of course this "free" adaptor has $6.95 shipping and there is tax charged to the shipping.
For more details about the USB adaptor, you can go
here.