Comments on: Xbox Live Accounts – Great But Don’t Move to Another Country!

By: Mikael Henriksson

Mikael Henriksson — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:54:50 +0000

Microsoft failed completely with the xbox account management. I can’t believe they don’t want my money! am so pissed of at them for this…

By: oneske

oneske — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:14:55 +0000

i live in autralia and ive just brought a new account off an american that had no xbox live on it and when i try to add credit card details there is no option for me to choose any australian states @!
fuck you ms im buying a fucking sony

By: iNco

iNco — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:31:06 +0000

I have the same problem. I was living in Denmark when i created my msn account and without thinking i set my country to Denmark which at the time it was. When i went back to the UK i bought an Xbox and it asked for my msn account i unwittingly entered the account i created in Denmark thus locking my xbox to being in Denmark.

This really wasn’t a huge problem whilst in the UK as i could get points and use my UK credit card just fine. However now i live in the middle east, having an xbox set to Denmark with a UK credit card and understanding no Danish what so ever is causing problems.

I cannot start to comprehend how uttely stupid it is that Microsoft will not let me change my country, i mean seriously it’s fkin retarded.

By: Hamo

Hamo — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:33:15 +0000

Yeah when I signed up I put austria instead of australian. Whoops I was in a rush to play. Sh@t.

By: FBIX

FBIX — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:18:25 +0000

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By: Droppo

Droppo — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:58:44 +0000

Moien, ech hun deen selwechten Problem! Mee wei kreien ech dann lo ‘MS Points’?

Merci

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:22:36 +0000

Hi folks… now i also live in Luxembourg and i got a german account which worked fine so far. I usually buy my MS Points in a german shop who sent the code per E-Mail.
So i usually accepted the fact that Luxembourg isn´t listed anywhere on any MS Server. Stunning that thea don´t want my money though.
But now i got a new Problem, you see, I bought the Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Edtion with the Nightgoggles and the Redeem Code for Call of Duty Classic on XBox Live Arcade. To be clear…i bought it in Luxembourg. An d now it turns out that the Redeem Code isn´t working because of the wrong IP Region. Tried to confront MS with the problem but they just ignore it.
So i bought a really expensive edition which features i cannot even use.
United Europe is just aweeeesome!

By: scott

scott — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:50:07 +0000

king of cali,

i am not sure if that will work. i set my Xbox live account as me being in the UK. i moved to france and then went back to the UK and bought a microsoft points card. the points went on to the account fine but when i came to download something (call of duty 5 map pack 3) it said “this is not available in your current location.” i havn’t tried it with gold subscription yet and i don’t know whether to try points from france, or not.

i think the reason is because my Xbox live is in english. in french it is called something else and for that reason it doesn’t work, (my brother tried to download something different and it worked – a piece of avatar clothing for modern warfare 2).

i think the problem is the language. if i take the Xbox 360 to the uk it should let me downlaod stuff. my only problen is Xbox live gold. should i buy it in france, or in the UK?

can you find any answers to this (besides creating a new gamertag) please?

By: SaturnmanX

SaturnmanX — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:15:06 +0000

I used to live in Spain and I created the live account at the time (let’s call it: accA)

When I moved to the UK and bought my xbox 360, I used my live account (accA). My gamertag then, had the country set in Spain! I couldn’t pay by a UK credit card and the market place was all in spanish, etc.

I contacted microsoft and the problem seemed to be that the country is set within the live account, not the gamertag. So a possible solution is to create a new live account at your current location (accB) and replace the current live account associated to your gamertag (accA) with the newly created one (accB).

I didn’t get to try thos though, because I came back to Spain, but I think is worth trying it…

By: Harold

Harold — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 09:51:09 +0000

Omfg… i live in the united kingdom but whenm ever i go on to get xbox live gold membership it says i live in the US so i can’t get gold cause of the billing info needing to know where i live i try to change country or region but its locked on United States i mean WTF!