Region issue with Gears of War codes

Discus and support Region issue with Gears of War codes in XBoX Sales and Promo to solve the problem; I live in Netherlands. In December I've bought Xbox One S + Gears of War 4 bundle, after a couple received codes for GoW1, GoW2, GoW3. None of these... Discussion in 'XBoX Sales and Promo' started by romazhuzha, Jan 28, 2017.

  1. romazhuzha
    romazhuzha Guest

    Region issue with Gears of War codes


    I live in Netherlands. In December I've bought Xbox One S + Gears of War 4 bundle, after a couple received codes for GoW1, GoW2, GoW3. None of these works in my region, which doesn't make any sense. As these are available in Netherlands store and my Xbox
    is set to this region.

    :)
     
    romazhuzha, Jan 28, 2017
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  2. Smwutches
    Smwutches Guest
    Trying to redeem a code for Gears of war 3 on xbox one, it's giving me an error! any solutions?

    What error code do you receive with the error message? Does your account region match your physical location?

    Most of the time the issue is region related. Not all of the Gears games are region locked, but some of them are.
     
    Smwutches, Jan 28, 2017
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  3. ngocphi
    ngocphi Guest
    i need help redeeming a dlc code i got from a friend

    fyi with gears of war DLC

    the codes are region locked
     
    ngocphi, Jan 28, 2017
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  4. romazhuzha
    romazhuzha Guest

    Region issue with Gears of War codes

    wow, that was unexpected.

    I managed to fix it by changing Xbox 360 region, which was challenging to find on its own. I have never had Xbox 360 and so it's region was automatically set to country I activated Microsoft account first (Ukraine).

    So, switching to Netherlands helped for all issues. Now I can also install free Xbox 360 games given by Xbox Live Gold.

    Here are the links if somebody will face anything similar:

    Check you current region first - https://live.xbox.com/en-US/account/billingaccountinformation

    Change it - Sign in to your Microsoft account

    This is also connected to Microsoft's account Billing info here - Sign in to your Microsoft account

    Which apparently some people had problems with: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-security/multiple-account-profiles-list...
     
    romazhuzha, Jan 29, 2017
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  5. ngocphi
    ngocphi Guest
    keep in mind if you have your console set to English that would be why

    You need to match account region at commerce.microsoft.com and your console region with your actual region

    Console language has to match also

    So dutch or German I think was the other option
     
    ngocphi, Jan 29, 2017
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  6. romazhuzha
    romazhuzha Guest
    Yes, I switched language to Dutch. Didn't help either.

    Anyway, changing Xbox 360 account region helped. But, again, it was tricky to understand what it was and how to fix it. Same goes for this forum, btw. Couldn't find this discussion in menu, was to get here by Go to my discussions->Support and very fast pressing
    on my post otherwise it was replaced with some unrelated support discussion, which I have never took part in.
     
    romazhuzha, Feb 2, 2017
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  7. romazhuzha
    romazhuzha Guest
    This page has some info on this Billing help - Microsoft account

    Apparently, I had to change my billing country manually after move. But Microsoft never has asked me to do this. This was the core of the whole problem.
     
    romazhuzha, Nov 3, 2018
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  8. ngocphi Win User

    Help! Redemtion Code Defect

    i got the same for my gears of war codes all worked except for gears of war 3
    If you are getting not available in your region or 8015017 or invalid code then the issues isn't the code and a new code won't help

    Your account regionregion and console region must reflect your actual region
  9. Sergeant Heng Win User

    XBOS-3012

    That error is usually the sign of a region issue. What region is your account set for and what region are you physically in?
    Hi Smwutches,

    The region is set in Singapore and I am in Singapore. Right now, it seems the codes that I received for Gears of War and Gears of War 3 has become void.
  10. Guinan-EFD42EF2-1C11 Win User

    Region free games??? Purchase xbox in one country and buy games in another country.

    This seems no longer to be true.

    Games purchased from other regions will play if physical disk, but any connected download codes will not work.

    There are issues for example with the Gears of War 1-3 codes (included with Gears of War collection) and the Fallout 3 codes (that came with Fallout 4).
  11. ngocphi Win User

    i need help redeeming a dlc code i got from a friend

    fyi with gears of war DLC

    the codes are region locked
  12. Mister Maka Win User

    Gears of War 2 Code didn´t work

    Hey there!

    Sorry to hear you're having toruble redeeming a Gears of war code. If you haven't already please be sure to
    check out this post in the Gears of War forum. There are some steps there for the error many users are getting. If you're located in a region such as Germany then I'm afraid
    you aren't qualified for this promotion and may run into issues with codes.
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