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endimion on 24 August 2013
Adinnieken said:
endimion said:
wait is it your console that needs to be set to an other country or your XBL account ??? there is a big difference.... unless they make it easy to migrate the country on the XBL account this time around... this won't be a good option for most people that care....

but since if one XBL gold is active on a console you can use it with other account, you could easily make a dummy account in said country with a 6month XBL gold sub and tie your games to a localized account....

anyway we'll within days if not hours after launch if and how it works....

Microsoft made it so you can switch nationalities on XBL accounts this past year, so that's resolved.  The only consideration are games, but as I mentioned elsewhere, with the exception of Germany, you shouldn't have too many issues.  Games may be available in the UK and Ireland before they're available to mainland Europe but in general the same games should be available across Europe.  If you buy disc-based games, then you can avoid any issues with German law.

UK doesn't use the same currency though so be careful with the payment options... it will either not work or your bank will charge you an exchange fee... I'd use a euro country....
I didn't know that about the switching.... is it instant switching or you go through validation and need to be checked and all ??? can I switch back and forth between countries ???? cause if I can I'd centralized everything under one account instead of 2....



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endimion on 24 August 2013
Adinnieken said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:
Flemish Belgians aren't as happy as Walloon ones about the workaround. Who knows why...

Hey, 2/3rds of the languages spoken in Belgium are covered. 

Poor Portugal doesn't get a launch despite being the mother tongue of Brazil.

well if it is anything like spanish in spain and spanish in latin america... they might as well call it two different language... I had a peruvian roommate back in college and he had the hardest time understanding mexican spanish... granted that might have been slang issues the pronunciation was completely different to me than spain spanish....



Adinnieken on 24 August 2013
endimion said:
Adinnieken said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:
Flemish Belgians aren't as happy as Walloon ones about the workaround. Who knows why...

Hey, 2/3rds of the languages spoken in Belgium are covered. 

Poor Portugal doesn't get a launch despite being the mother tongue of Brazil.

well if it is anything like spanish in spain and spanish in latin america... they might as well call it two different language... I had a peruvian roommate back in college and he had the hardest time understanding mexican spanish... granted that might have been slang issues the pronunciation was completely different to me than spain spanish....

I have a friend that is from Spain and he said bluntly, Mexican is not Spanish.  My guess is all new-world Spanish is a dialect of Spanish.  Meaning they're all unique.

Heck, there are more substantive dialects of English than in the whole of the US, and the US is 50 times bigger.  That's not counting the dialects of Scotland, Ireland, or Wales.  Just dialects of English in England.

Dialects arise out of isolation, so the more isolated a community from the rest of the country or world, the more distinct it gets.

One of the interesting things about the internet and globalization has been the breakdown of some of this.