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Lusche on 18 November 2013
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endimion said:
Lusche said:
endimion said:

 

so if yu wnat to buy from japanese store you need t have an japanese XBL account with a console IP located in japan....


I have a jp account and bought some games from it.

dling to the ntsc-j console and starting the game no problems.

dling it to the pal console no problem. starting it not so ... wrong region :(

 

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misunderstood you ... you have an us xbox, obviously games from the us store works for you
he has a jp xbox, games from the jp store works for him, but pretty sure games from the us store wont work for him like games from the jp store wont work for you.
even if you have a jp account and dl it via vpn the games wont start because of the region lock the jp games have.

so even with a US XBL acct on a a jp console if he is in the US (or fake being in it) it won't work because of video format ??? that was the only thing I wasn't sure of....

liek I said he can try that easily with a free silver account and buy a really cheap game to see if it works....


not because of the video format, but because of the region lock they have enforced on most games.
this is to keep people from importing games from other countries, because its cheaper. like a game in the us $60 game in jp $80+

so if there was no region lock why buy a game like gta5 or cod in jp if you can get it for $30 less and weeks earlier if you import it from the us.

or different publishers and release date. like why buy a game from an eu publisher if the us/(jp) gets it weeks/months earlier.
they would lose money because of it because they are different publishers.
so the eu publisher says to the us publisher to region lock it so that the eu folks just cant buy the us version and canabilize the sales from the eu publisher

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and since the eu versions comes last most of the time and are way more expensive then the us/asia except jp ones there is no real need for region lock the eu games.
thats why there are more eu games out there which are not region locked.