Huge localization issue

Erbj · Oct 24, 2014

Howdy,

something that is starting to seriously rustle my jimmies is this:

I'm Swedish and live in Sweden, in order to fully utilize the store I need to set location to Sweden, but lo and behold - someone made the decision to not allow me to use English as my system language or spoken language to English. I have no idea why you
won't let me do that?

This basically means that the Kinect becomes an expensive piece of useless crap unless I, as I do now keep going back and forth between locations (restarting every time I decide to do something).

Seems like an easy fix, I also notice that the British location setting yields a much more updated and interesting start screen.

tl;dr :You seem to have forgotten to keep language &spoken language on the Xbox independent from location. You should probably fix that, there are many here who can't even speak proper Swedish and have to rely on English.

Let me, being in Sweden. Still select language & spoken language as English. Please. It ruins the experience not to be able to.

p.s even if you enable Swedish as a spoken language I would with 99% certainty never use it. Let me use English.

Cheerio,

:)

Ackis · Oct 24, 2014

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Try contacting Rare directly about the localization issue?

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Christoph Schmitt · Oct 24, 2014

Localization

I know that problem / bug and i would personally hate it.

My console is in german, but i'm a German and want that language.

5* cause i can feel with you.

BobMcFly247 · Oct 25, 2014

Unfortunately this is not possible at the moment, but as a lot of users reqeust this feature you may also like to vote and discuss on this issue at

xbox.uservoice.com/.../6028840-don-t-region-lock-the-languages

Thats the site where Microsoft collects suggestions and feedback on future improvements.

Erbj · Oct 31, 2018

Thanks mate, I'll be sure to kee pan eye on that one and hope something happens soon.

BobMcFly247

Unfortunately this is not possible at the moment, but as a lot of users reqeust this feature you may also like to vote and discuss on this issue at

xbox.uservoice.com/.../6028840-don-t-region-lock-the-languages

Thats the site where Microsoft collects suggestions and feedback on future improvements.

Erbj

Thanks mate, I'll be sure to kee pan eye on that one and hope something happens soon.

BluSwirl

From what I've read what they do is add you over xbox live,send you messages asking if you are male/female & your age & then give you a link to a sex site.

If your dumb enough to go to that site that's where they'll try & get some details from you.

They can't do it over xbox live unless someone is stupid enough to give out their details.

OMGoth! Happened to me today! Just like the OP said - some random with ZERO gamerscore and a disproportionate amount of "friends" tried juicing me for info! Should apologize to the OP because I doubted the likelihood of outsiders crashing my party! Obviously
I didn't reply but now that I've deleted all of *its* conversations, I have nothing to report :/ Once bitten twice shy, then ^_0

Goth Vampirella

smileskybird

Unlikely. If someone tries to sign into your account from another country or a foreign device or a device which is over 100km from your normal usage, Microsoft sends a verification code TO YOUR SMARTPHONE number, and you have to enter in the correct password
and email, before they can access your account. It is almost impossible, to get that verification number, if you don't have it. I'm with Vodafone and they know there is only ONE device which has access to my number, and that's my smartphone which is next to
me.

Also, if there are any unauthorized withdrawals, your bank will Reverse Transaction those. There are laws in place for this. Microsoft regularly updates their software anyways. And no one has been successfully able to hack Xbox Live for other people's info.

Huge localization issue