Ok, so lets go a little nerdy today. For those of you who do not know what Call of Duty is... Stop playing WoW and turn on an xbox or ps3. Oh what's that?!?! you dont play video games... that's cool, but you might want to get some friends. Chances are someone you know is playing call of duty... right now.
Plain and simple. Call of Duty is the biggest money maker on the planet in terms of video games sales. Now how does Activision (the owner of the franchise) reward it's players with the newest map pack addition...
By only allowing them to download in the same region and your gamer ID is registered!
"This content is not available for your region"
So to all those wonderful souls fighting for their country overseas... you suck and we dont care about you.
who are "we" "We" are Activision, the company behind region locking your download content. Why? because we don't make enough money as it is and we want to ensure that we capitalize on everyone. What's that? you have a canadian account with 29837492387947823 MS points on it, you've already spend money to buy the map pack? You are not living in Canada at the moment?... oh well... you suck and we dont care about you.
In short - If you are from a country that you are not currently living in, and created an xbox live account in your home country. You can't download the map pack. So if you are a soldier fighting overseas and you like to play call of duty.. no new map pack for you.
If you like to buy points from retailers overseas... no map pack for you. (you know that's not legit and you can't really be THAT upset that microsoft inst letting you download it)
If you have moved for school... no map pack for you.
If you have moved because of work... no map pack for you.
If you transferred your account to where you live now... no map pack for you.
If you have no fingers and hate call of duty and never wanted to play anyway... no map pack for you.
So what's the only "solution"
Make a NEW account in the country you are in. Buy ANOTHER/MORE ms points and download to that account. Then the DL content will be available for anyone to use on that machine.
Great, So you have to create an account to which no one will ever use and RE-PURCHASE points so that you can use a map pack that you couldnt download because you were not in the country in which you registered your initial gamer ID.
Makes perfect sense to me.
So what if i want to delete that account because I never use it. Content lost.
All of this... for a map pack?!?!?
And if you live in a country not listed here http://www.xbox.com/en-us/live/countries Don't even try to download it.
Our reader Dawn has mentioned:
- "(you may be able to access xBox live there, but you'll get no support)... You can buy it, but not download it.
A map pack for the highest grossing game series of all time. And what's activision's excuse... "legal reasons"
Nice one Activision. Nice one indeed.
It's a flippin video game.
Well said. Such a bunch of bullshit indeed. I have an American box and I'm living in Japan. No DLC for me? Well fuck you too.. won't be buying the next CoD, especially since Activision killed all the IW talent with their MW2 shit storm. Fix it or get fucked.
ReplyDeleteThis is so frustrating.
ReplyDeleteI created my account in the UK but moved back to Trinidad and Tobago after I finished bschool. I'm now fucked. This is so unfair.
We all paid for hardware software and accessories just like everyone else and should be allowed to enjoy our purchases just like everyone else too!!
This also happened to a lot of people trying to download DLC for Gears of War 2. Interestingly, the failure to download that content segregated friend’s lists into people the people without the maps which led had a huge part to play in why the game lost popularity so quickly. Because people who could not get DLC stopped playing the game because we could not play with XBL friends in the US and other countries and in turn they dumped the game as well.
Keep up the good fight!
And what happens to your other maps in your other account,,,,how dodgy!
ReplyDeleteWorth adding that if you're in a country not supported by xBox live (you may be able to access xBox live there, but you'll get no support) then no map pack for you. You can buy it, but not download it.
ReplyDeleteCountry list here: http://www.xbox.com/en-us/live/countries
YOu do realize how ridiculous that sounds....you can buy it but not use it....!
ReplyDeleteI do realize.
ReplyDeleteyes.