Region locking questions on XBL

[endimion]

Lusche said:

endimion said:
I get the region lock, even though I think the price difference doesn't change anything for MS the publisher or the dev it is mostly different tax levels which go straight in the country government pockets and nobody else and they enforce the region lock to avoid retailers going out of business just because their country tax is scandalous....

but that would mean they use the region of the console origin ????

not the one of your IP/acct origin ???

it's weird since the new XB will be region free and the only difference will be your XBL acct location/origin

well anyway that always leave him with the option to import games from japan... now a day it is not a big issue to order stuff from anywhere in the world....

well they use both ...

obviously you can't buy an us game with an eu account. so there is one check.
the other one is if you start the game and it has a region lock then it will look it up which is hardcoded to your console.

but it doesn't matter if you start the game with an eu/us/asia account for the achievments. once its downloaded to the console it only checks the origin the console has, not what account you start it.

good to know... well even if the XB one will be region free this confirms my decision of buying one from the US then :D just to be safe...