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Xbox Store Is Reportedly Blocking Purchases For Users With False Account Regions

The Xbox Store has begun blocking purchases for users with false account regions, based on the latest report.

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OtterX612d ago

This is complete crap. I moved from the US to Europe 10 years ago, but I still use my American account. Come after me and I promise my last little bit of XBox game purchase (Forza, Forza Horizon series, MS Flight Simulator, Minecraft etc) support (PC) will be over for life. They're doing everything they can to really kill off their userbase, eh?

rippermcrip612d ago

Why haven't you just changed your region?

OtterX612d ago

Because I still use my American Credit Card and prefer to make US Store purchases. I save money. I'm still an American and I still have a place of residency there when I visit.

OtterX612d ago (Edited 612d ago )

Get this guy added to the Region Police. "We have an illegal! Ban him! Ban him!" 😂

Pin a Hall Monitor Safety Badge on him.

rippermcrip612d ago

Who cares if you're still an American. You're living there. You should be using the appropriate store. You're trying to get the best of both worlds and acting like they are trying to screw you over or something.

OtterX612d ago (Edited 612d ago )

Because this isn't the same as changing my region for benefit. It was always an American account. I'm not required to change anything. All of my previous purchases, even before I moved here are American licenses.

Check it:

https://support.xbox.com/en...

"Moving your Microsoft account’s country/region might affect your services and subscriptions.
While your Xbox profile info moves with you, and your subscriptions might move to your new location depending on regional availability, the funds that were added to your Microsoft account do not transfer to your new country/region."

I shouldn't even have to gamble whether my games and subscriptions will be retained. Get back to me when you've actually lived abroad.

isarai612d ago (Edited 612d ago )

@ripper

Oh you poor child, you haven't learned that literally every corporation is trying to screw you over. Bootlickers like you are the reason every service in the world is full of this kind of petty nickle and diming. Sitting here sticking up for a multi billion dollar corporation so they can squeeze a few extra cents out of someone is wild.

isarai612d ago

This was my immediate thought like how do you account for people that just move?

rippermcrip612d ago

You literally just change it in your account.

OtterX612d ago (Edited 612d ago )

@rippermcrip You make it seem so easy, but I'll give you an example: Minecraft, a US version that was purchased before the move. Any DLC purchased for it is US region. If I change region, DLC is most times no longer valid. I would have to rebuy a regional EU copy of the game and rebuy the new regional DLC.

This is an actual issue I have faced with DLC. While games are region free, regional DLC is not. It's specific to the region you are in. You speak from inexperience in the issue.

isarai612d ago (Edited 612d ago )

@ripper

And then i need to go get a new payment method for that region, and then i need to redo all things my last payment method was tied to, or juggle which services i have under which payment method, then there's the inevitable issues with what you have in your library for games/dlc, not everything is available across all regions, so you could end up being locked out if things you already paid for. All this when all MS has to do is leave it alone.

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OtterX612d ago (Edited 612d ago )

@911Operator That is absolutely false. Not sure if you're a recently created Alt account of @rippermcrip or if you're just equally clueless, but I'm still on my US Playstation, Nintendo and XBox accounts w zero issues. And yes, I do see that your account was created just for this article for some strange reason.

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DivineHand125612d ago

I don't believe that they are targeting guys like you. Instead, they are going after the people who claim they are domiciled countries like Brazil, Argentina, Egypt and Turkey which have region adjusted prices for games.

darthv72612d ago

"Minecraft, a US version that was purchased before the move. Any DLC purchased for it is US region. If I change region, DLC is most times no longer valid. I would have to rebuy a regional EU copy of the game and rebuy the new regional DLC."

You don't know that Otter because you have yet to change your region. for all you know the games and DLC will still work jst fine because they have already been paid for. Updating your region does not invalidate already purchased content. It only changes the region in which new purchases are made and the selection available to that region.

why not try it for yourself and see what happens? You should be able to change back.

jznrpg612d ago

DLC is locked to regions

OtterX612d ago (Edited 612d ago )

Wow, so I actually do have 2 PSN accounts, an EU and a US one which I actively do make purchase on both. I only have my 1 US XBox account.

But I can tell you with certainty, with experience from my 2 PSN accounts, DLC is always locked to regions. I've had issue with buying physical games here where I currently live and trying to buy DLC, so I learned that very early on. Hence why I made my EU account. I only play XBox on PC, so everything is digital, I have not bought a physical XBox game since the end of the 360 era, so there has been no need to make an EU account up until now.

I don't know what to tell you, other than come back when you've actually experienced it, rather than speaking in hypotheticals? 🤷

**Edit - and what you're ultimately telling me too is that I should no longer have access to all of the DLC of physical PS4 games I previously owned before moving here. All of that DLC would be thrown in the trash. I could access the game discs, but the regional EU DLC will not even work with it.

Furthermore, the PSN EU store in my particular region now does not even have an English option. I can speak at an Intermediate level now, but will always be more comfortable falling back to my native language, which is English.

OtterX612d ago (Edited 612d ago )

Oh, and I also have 2 Nintendo accounts, local EU and US and I've had the same DLC issue with physical games I have bought.

There was a time when I lived between the 2 countries more, and was constantly back and forth. I'm not getting what is so hard to understand about the challenges of locking oneself into 1 country when living between 2 countries on a regular basis? Not everyone is glued to one location.

I am not even speaking for all of these people gaming, taking advantage of the system. I'm talking about my own, real world experience and how a move like this would hurt people who have legitimate reasons.

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devrimer603d ago

absolutely you are right, I am same like you. :(((((((

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Destiny1080612d ago

80 Billion needs to be repaid

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TheNamelessOne612d ago

Damn you, Microsoft, and you're entirely reasonable expectations for keeping people from gaming the system.

Knightofelemia612d ago

Just another reason for physical I can import the game and play it the machine is not region locked with discs.

jznrpg612d ago (Edited 612d ago )

When you buy games from others regions there is an *️⃣ saying may not have some online capabilities which includes dlc. I have bought many games from Asia and Europe but they were all single player games as some times we don’t get North America release. But I know I won’t be able to buy dlc but more often than not there isn’t DLC for the games I’m buying anyway

Knightofelemia612d ago

I rarely buy DLC I want the Tales of Arise DLC but that alone is $40 Canadian. Buying costumes, gun skins, added vehicles, just isn't worth it. Only DLC I like is if it's extra missions but with that you're lucky if its worth the price and longer then an hour of Gameplay.

Vits612d ago

Honestly, I have zero sympathy for those people. They should be banned for this crap of region-hopping that has quite literally destroyed the regional markets of the less affluent regions.

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Microsoft Gaming Revenue Drops 7% Year-on-Year, Content and Services Down 5%, Xbox Hardware Down 33%

Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.

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Jin_Sakai15d ago (Edited 15d ago )

Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.

dveio15d ago

To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.

Jingsing15d ago

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Tanktopmaster9215d ago

Once they re-evaluate exclusive all will be fine….

S2Killinit15d ago

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

Jingsing15d ago

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Tanktopmaster9215d ago

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

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Report: Injustice 3 in Development at NetherRealm Studios

Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.

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Spiders Studio, Developers of GreedFall: The Dying World, Announce Liquidation of the Company

Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.

What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.

We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.

If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."