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Streamlined Region Switching now available for Xbox Live users

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    #2
    nava
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    paddyk wrote: »
    Found this information here

    http://www.xboxer360.com/news/streamlined-region-switching-now-available-for-xbox-live-users/

    I have seen this question pop up from time to time. Hope this info helps

    Thanks, My account is now UK, I assume for content might be better to leave it as UK? Is there any benefits for moving account to Ireland?

    Thanks


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    #3
    davebushe
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭davebushe


    I bought my Xbox when I was living in the US years ago. Not wanting to give up the chevos, I've been waiting on this for ages. It took about 2 minutes the other night to switch to Ireland and I was able to add points etc straight away.

    Even better, my Gold was due to expire on the 22nd of Jan. I changed on Jan 16th and now it says it's good until Feb 16th. Dunno what happened but not going to complain about (almost) an extra month!


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    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,098 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    About time, have been waiting for this for ages.


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    #5
    chopperbyrne
    Registered Users Posts: 11,012 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    You lose the Gamertag licenses for all your content and some of your existing content might be region blocked, so don't go randomly changing your account region because you think some other countries get better deals/content.


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    gizmo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,405 ✭✭✭gizmo


    chopperbyrne wrote: »
    You lose the Gamertag licenses for all your content and some of your existing content might be region blocked, so don't go randomly changing your account region because you think some other countries get better deals/content.
    Not exactly, the licences will transfer over if said content exists in your new marketplace region. If it doesn't then you'll lose the ability to redownload them should you delete them from your console.

    I finally did this back in November after a couple of years of being locked out of the Indie marketplace, certain 18 rated content and some of the better apps on the Windows Phone marketplace. It was a long time coming but most certainly appreciated in the end.


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    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,098 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Just did the switch myself and think I gained an extra free month in the process. :D


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    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    gizmo wrote: »
    Not exactly, the licences will transfer over if said content exists in your new marketplace region. If it doesn't then you'll lose the ability to redownload them should you delete them from your console.

    I think I'd rather set up a silver account from another region & then let the local license do the work, that way you have the best of both worlds


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    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,098 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    There is limited differences between the licenses between the UK and Ireland, but physically move between the two and you cannot get any local stuff because it recognises your xbox as being foreign. You can't get the stuff from your "home" region because you are not there, you cannot buy stuff in your "physical" region because your credit card is for the wrong region, you cannot change your credit card to a local one because you xbox is for another region.

    Have found myself unable to get stuff that is available in both UK and Ireland because of this inability to switch regions and it just blocks you from both directions.

    Switching between further separated regions may cause a bigger issue, but the UK/IRL switch is relatively insignificant in terms of licenses, but annoying enough that you feel the need to change to the true local region.


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    #10
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    robinph wrote: »
    Have found myself unable to get stuff that is available in both UK and Ireland because of this inability to switch regions and it just blocks you from both directions.

    Thats why I set up a silver UK account to go alongside my sons IRE Gold account. If he wants anything from the UK or Indy marketplace now he just signs out of his IRE Gold account, signs into the UK silver one & he has full access to UK content. Anything he buys or downloads can then be used on his IRE Gold account, because a local license is issued to the console itself.

    He got some kind of Minecraft zombie-like game from the UK account on the Indy marketplace. He then signed out of that once done & signed into the Irish one & voila, he could play the Indy stuff online on his Gold account through the Irish account. As I said, it seems to be the best of both worlds


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    gizmo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,405 ✭✭✭gizmo


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Thats why I set up a silver UK account to go alongside my sons IRE Gold account. If he wants anything from the UK or Indy marketplace now he just signs out of his IRE Gold account, signs into the UK silver one & he has full access to UK content. Anything he buys or downloads can then be used on his IRE Gold account, because a local license is issued to the console itself.

    He got some kind of Minecraft zombie-like game from the UK account on the Indy marketplace. He then signed out of that once done & signed into the Irish one & voila, he could play the Indy stuff online on his Gold account through the Irish account. As I said, it seems to be the best of both worlds
    Are you based in the UK, EnterNow? Regarding the highlighted bit above, if the answer was no I'd imagine you wouldn't have access to the XBLIG Marketplace, some of the 18-rated content and other UK-specific apps I mentioned above?


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    Myrddin
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    gizmo wrote: »
    Are you based in the UK, EnterNow? Regarding the highlighted bit above, if the answer was no I'd imagine you wouldn't have access to the XBLIG Marketplace, some of the 18-rated content and other UK-specific apps I mentioned above?

    No I'm based here In Ireland. Unless something has changed recently has it? Because he certainly had access to the Indy Market a while back, & made a purchase from it as I mentioned...


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    gizmo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,405 ✭✭✭gizmo


    EnterNow wrote: »
    No I'm based here In Ireland. Unless something has changed recently has it? Because he certainly had access to the Indy Market a while back, & made a purchase from it as I mentioned...
    Hmm, as far as I was aware you couldn't anyway. The last time I checked was just after launch though so it's been awhile. In my case, when I had my Irish account signed in while over here I couldn't access the UK-based content but I also couldn't test it with Ireland-exclusive content because there wasn't any. :)


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    Myrddin
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    gizmo wrote: »
    Hmm, as far as I was aware you couldn't anyway. The last time I checked was just after launch though so it's been awhile. In my case, when I had my Irish account signed in while over here I couldn't access the UK-based content but I also couldn't test it with Ireland-exclusive content because there wasn't any. :)

    It must have changed then over the years, because I had a thread here on this forum actually asking for help in how to get Indy content as my son was blistering me to get some game. The advice I got was to set up a new Silver account with UK details. Then using that account purchase the content I wanted, & then I'd be able to use said content on the original account as two licenses get issues for content:

    1) A user licence thats tied to the profile that purchased it
    2) a local licence is issued to the console it was purchased with, to allow 2 players etc.

    It worked perfectly too. And in true kids fashion, after a day or two of playing the Indy game, he lost interest in it :rolleyes:


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    gizmo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,405 ✭✭✭gizmo


    Aye, I knew about the local licence bit, I just didn't think you could download the content initially from a UK Silver account while the console was located in Ireland.


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    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    gizmo wrote: »
    Aye, I knew about the local licence bit, I just didn't think you could download the content initially from a UK Silver account while the console was located in Ireland.

    Well as I said unless something has changed in the meantime, it certainly used to work up until mid/late last year anyway.


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    LSlemon98
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭LSlemon98


    gizmo wrote: »
    Hmm, as far as I was aware you couldn't anyway. The last time I checked was just after launch though so it's been awhile. In my case, when I had my Irish account signed in while over here I couldn't access the UK-based content but I also couldn't test it with Ireland-exclusive content because there wasn't any. :)

    wat regions have the xblig marketplace and can i make another account on my xbox in said region to download said region items


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    #18
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    LSlemon98 wrote: »
    wat regions have the xblig marketplace and can i make another account on my xbox in said region to download said region items

    UK & USA as far as I know. Yes you can make a silver account, using UK details & postcodes etc & then download from the Indy market etc


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    LSlemon98
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭LSlemon98


    EnterNow wrote: »
    UK & USA as far as I know. Yes you can make a silver account, using UK details & postcodes etc & then download from the Indy market etc

    this might be annoying but is a silver account just one that is not renewed for gold and does ur email account have to be from that region


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    #20
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    LSlemon98 wrote: »
    this might be annoying but is a silver account just one that is not renewed for gold

    Yeah its a free basic account


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    #21
    LSlemon98
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭LSlemon98


    is there anything i have to do before making the change to the region like games and stuff on other accounts


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    #22
    theteal
    Registered Users Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭theteal


    Cheers OP, a long time waiting for this. I've been in the UK nearly 2 years and it's a bit of a pain having to log in to another profile to download apps etc


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