Xbox Live Accounts – Great But Don’t Move to Another Country! 117
Update Feb 18th 2009 – Letter sent to Major Nelson.. as yet no response
I am sure lots of people are aware, but to those who aren’t please read on (those who are, bear with me while I have a rant!).
I moved from the UK to Sweden about 8 months ago and obviously took my Xbox 360 with me. Afterall, I am not moving to Mars, in fact I am within Europe still and we europeans generally share a territory with most things. We all use PAL, we all like football, many share the same currency, and we all love the french (ahem).
So generally the first few months everything went swimmingly until December when my Xbox Live Gold account expired. So wanting to renew my account I tried, but no matter what I did the damn Live system refused to accept payment using a Swedish card. For some reason best known to Microsoft they don’t want my money because a Swedish VISA card is obviously different from an English one…. right? continue reading »