Account region stupidity

I don't ever post on here but I just had to vent my frustration with xbox. So I tried to buy South Park the stick of truth but it would not let me, it gave me a stupid error message stating that it was not available in my region. My region WAS set to United
States but I do not live there anymore. I am currently stationed in Germany, so i thought I would change my region to where I live to fix this. Little did I know it changed pretty much the majority of my language on my xbox to German. The setting on the console
is set to English but it does very little.

It will say Play (insert game) then under it Meine Pins, and then under that Recent.

I don't read or speak German. Now I chatted online and called in. There was little anyone could do for me, and they wouldn't or couldn't help me change my region back. Now I understand there is a 90 day wait period but for an honest mistake?

Its just very unfortunate that there isn't a region for Armed Forces Europe. I guess Microsoft doesn't care about American Soliders.

:)

 

Account region issue

I just got a used XBOX 360.
I live in Cyprus, where XBOX Live is not supported, so i decided to choose UK as my country (did the same with PSN). I was planning on topping up my account with pre-paid cards.
I managed signing up for XBOX Live trial and i also purchased 4 codes for Gears of War games from ebay. I managed redeeming the first one (using a VPN on my PC) and initiated the download on my console, i left it downloading and went to sleep.

Today, i couldnt find the game in my games list. I went through the purchase history, the game was there, but the Play option just redirected me to the "My games" section. So, i decided to download it again, assuming download was interrupted somehow. And around 80% download stopped and i didnt see any error message (i might have missed it). But after some google search, i found out it has something to do with the region (probably my actual IP is d

So, anyone has any ideas how to resolve this mess?
thanks

 

Banned- Not Fair

Xbox consoles are being banned because people took advantage of a glitch caused by the stupidity of MS. So MS put up games free by mistake in various regions Russia, Bosnia, Oman etc, people take advantage of MS stupidity and they end up getting their console
banned, what a complete joke, but what do you expect from MS.

 

I would not say that at all about microsoft not caring about american soliders

now can you put english subtitles on your games?

 

Hey xXenocideEnderx, When downloading games from the marketplace your account region and physical region must match, if not you will get an error message like the one you received. As far as switching your region back to the USA you will have to wait the
90 days unless phone support can help. In the future you should order games from home and have relatives send them to you

 

Just to add,South Park tsot has been delayed in Germany because they have to remove swastikas from the game so you wouldn't be able to download it yet anyway.

 

yep region locks tend to be put up because of content laws like what daft badger mentioned

as its is a severe violation of their laws

you have to remember as a guest in their country you have to abide by their laws