Hello I’m Form Thailand I got incorrect region after I try to buy game form Xbox store turkey
I use the Turkish store because my country does not have an official store. The method is to link a credit card issued by a Thai bank and press to buy as usual without using a VPN in any way. And before this, I asked Xbox support that my country does not have a store open for service. How can I buy? He said to choose the desired location and if the transaction is successful, it is considered a purchase. There is nothing wrong.
I have been buying this for years without any problems until yesterday when I had an incorrect region issue. How can I solve this problem?
And I also found that Microsoft may ban after September 30 if you still buy it outside the specified region. But I’m in Thailand. There is no official store. I have to change my region to buy the game. And if it really bans, then countries that are not available will not be able to use the Xbox console at all, right?
This is a nail in the coffin of Xbox, at least in countries that are not superpowers, I live in Latin America and 80% of the people here bought the Xbox series S/X for the fact of being able to have games and gamepass at more reasonable prices, it is not our fault that the dollar is overvalued, I think that at the Xbox market in third world countries and more specifically in Mexico will go down too much, hopefully the guys in the first world can support Xbox because it is over for us.
Same issue, same region as OP. How unfair is this by Microsoft, pretty much saying if where you live doesn’t have an official Xbox store you’re stuck with getting physical copies only & totally shit out of luck if you want DLC’s. And the funniest part - I was told that if I escalated this further to find an amicable resolution my account would be FLAGGED FOR FRAUD
I live in the Philippines, and this sucks. We have no supported Xbox store in my country. Sure, we can use the US store, but the thing is, we don’t earn as much as the US citizens. We earn roughly $200 - $300 each month. In the US store, games are around $70-ish.
If they’d do this, then they should’ve added support to unsupported countries too.
For those saying “but it’s cheating” “you deserve it”, get down your high entitled horse. You’re unaffected, cause you can afford it. Most of the people within my region doesn’t earh sh*t.
I changed the country to South Africa which is also quite cheap compared to US/Europe. Fill your credit card details and in address line find a random restaurant (KFC,McDonalds, whatever) put in their address and my transaction went through normally. I live in Georgia
Wait a minute… I did buy some 30+ games from argentina and activated it via VPN. Does this mean I will not be able to play or even repurchase these games for my account?
I living in Ukraine and since 2020 using Xbox, and yesterday I get same issue, Xbox game store don’t support in Ukraine so I using Turkish store but I have already official adres in Turkey and credit card from a Turkish bank, anyway I can not use store right now, I texted with Microsoft’s live support, actually they were kindly but even though they wanted to help, they couldn’t and they reported the situation to the higher team. So I waiting an answer. I will update the post if I get any answer for a solution
Yeah, at the moment. Microsoft have been fiddling. A couple of weeks ago, it was blocked via the Internet. They have now blocked it via the console too.
Will have to wait and see.
PlayStation each account is locked to a single region. It might turn into that. We will have to wait and see
Hi guys, I have a question about the same Topic. In my case I’m from Perú, and I use Game pass for my console side 2019, but there’s no official store for my country so I used USA store. In that case I wouldn’t be able for purchase new games?
Microsoft will probably go the route steam took last year and convert most of them to USD only really does suck for people in those countries if they do
So we should use hacked games offline? I live in Iran and xbox doesn’t service here at all. My only way to buy games was turkey store and gift cards, now what? My credit is useless? Wtf?
I get why they did this, people were buying from cheap stores like turkey or argentina, sellers on eneba or g2a were abusing this too…
But this is a huge fuck you to all of us who live in unsupported countries, I have an xbox series s so no physical for me, now once I finish all the games in my library, then what am I supposed to do with my console?? Play warzone and efootball? If you are not letting me buy games or banning me if I do so and your services are not fully supported in my country then why are you selling your consoles to us in the first place?
This is such a shit show! Cheap games through GamePass and buying from other regions were the reason people even considered buying Xbox. Now the GP cost almost doubled and they region-lock players… Well done MS.
