A.D. Skinner
Member
Vypr isn't the issue, the Revolut card not working is. However, you can still use Revolut to buy digital codes directly from Microsoft...
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International GAF: How to buy from US/UK Xbox One Game Store
- Thread starter John Caboose
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i have a question regarding an Xbox Live subscription: there is a free month offer now, but to activate it they need a credit card info. i use the US store mostly, but i'm from a country where there is no official Xbox store. so if i try to use my credit card, it won't accept it. is there any way to circumvent this?
Nope not anymore.
Guys any benefits in using BitCoin?
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13942/microsoft-account-add-money-with-bitcoin
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13942/microsoft-account-add-money-with-bitcoin
No your account region determines your marketplace for the 360 stuff.
oh i see. i assume that account region cannot be changed, right?
It can be but you lose any credit you might have from your old region and some licenses if certain items are not available in the new region. You will also be locked in to the new region for 3 months without being able to change it.
got it. not worth the hassle just for this game at the moment. thanks for the info.
Hey guys I have a problem. A few years ago I created an US account and gave in a New York billing adress ( I didn't know how the taxsystem worked). Now I want to buy some cheap games in the US store but I pay taxes because of my New York billing adress. So I changed it in my Microsoft account to Oregon and deleted the old adress. Now the Xbox purchase details still have the tax and the New York billing adress. How do I get rid of it? Thanks!
Call Me A Hero
Member
So, I updated SmartGlass on my Android phone but the prices changed to £ instead of $.
How to change the prices back to USD? (Note: my console is PAL system and I unchecked the preference option that making prices based on the console region).
How to change the prices back to USD? (Note: my console is PAL system and I unchecked the preference option that making prices based on the console region).
Just as a heads up, the MS store supports Paypal now. Not sure if it will forever stay like this but right now you can buy in foreign stores on the official xbox website without any vpn etc. Just bought Forza Horizon 3 in Singapore where its the cheapest price for me without any hasle. They are charging 10 days before release apparently for preorders.
I was about to post this yesterday and forgot it. Yeah MS previously supported PayPal but your PayPal region needed to match the region you were buying from and not all regions supported PayPal.
Now you can just use your PayPal for every region, it doesn't need to match anymore. This is huge, we are back baby.
Yes. Since it is part of the Xbox Play Anywhere program you don't even need to wait for a code this time. It will just show up as owned in the windows store and you will be able to install it.
Visualante2
Member
69.90 SGD little over £40 for me. Thanks for bumping this, have pre-ordered. Are we good on refunds if they do a last minute Steam announcement?
Sweet!!. Just bought the Ultimate edition for £63 would have cost me £80 if i bought it from the UK site!!!.
Thanks for the heads up!!!, this is some much easier to buy form foreign marketplaces now, i wonder why MS are so open to this back door and not bother about closing it up and in fact making it easier to buy from other marketplaces!?
Just like cc you need to add it for every region manually.
pocketaces
Member
whats the best site to compare digital prices? that store parser only does like 5 regions
http://www.digitalgamesprices.com/xboxone.php
The site is super ugly, but it does the job for a good comparison.
I'd not considered using PayPal across regions. Are there any limitations? I guess you have to make up an address for each region still.
You have to, but it didn't even check if the address exists when I bought something in Singapore.
Broman1978
Junior Member
So, can I buy Forza Horizon 3 on Singapore Marketplace and then change back to my Swedish region and the game will be charged the amount it costs from Singapore Marketplace and not the super expensive swedish Marketplace?
Yes but don't even bother switching it on the console or anything. Just do it on Xbox.com.
Broman1978
Junior Member
Ok, Thanks =)
Pjsprojects
Member
Will try PayPal on Forza 3!
Wonder if it's available in Russia?
Wonder if it's available in Russia?
It is but it's not he cheapest there and you get to play earlier by buying in Singapore. So why even bother?
Pjsprojects
Member
Fair enough,thanks for the tip.
Ein Bear
Member
Wow so you can just buy things via the webstore and PayPal now? I could never be bothered messing around with region swapping and such on the console itself, but this sounds incredibly easy. Definitely looking into it tonight.
Yep, only switching on the website and you're done. No VPN or anything else. Piece of cake now (lets hope it stays this way).
You always could buy stuff from different regions on xbox.com. That is what I always did. I'm not going to change my region on my Xbox since you have to do a full reboot every time. Back then we used credit cards but that got blocked. PayPal was available in Germany, US etc. for example but your PayPal account region always had to match the Xbox region you were trying to buy from.
Now with this latest store update they added PayPal to a lot more countries and the region doesn't matter anymore. For now. I'm sure Microsoft will close this loop hole in a couple months.
Broman1978
Junior Member
Hm, I saw now that if I change region on Xbox.com I must wait 3 months until I can switch again? I use an app here in Sweden (Cmore) that might not work until I change back, no?
That is switching the actual region of your Microsoft account. DO NOT DO THIS
On Xbox.com just scroll down to the bottom and you will find a country setting. Just select the one you want to buy from. This doesn't change anything about your profile. Only the region for the current browsing session.
Broman1978
Junior Member
Oh thanks! What would we do without you ^^
Why don't your try and tell us if it works? I assume it would but you need to keep an eye on your funds so you have the necessary amount when it gets charged. I would assume PayPal handles the conversion too but can't say for sure.
I just tried, with Overwatch crates, it worked just fine
But it didn't asked me if I wanted to pay with CC or funds, they just used the paypal funds right away so if you guys have funds on Paypal they will automatically use these funds I guess.
I just tried, with Overwatch crates, it worked just fine
But it didn't asked me if I wanted to pay with CC or funds, they just used the paypal funds right away so if you guys have funds on Paypal they will automatically use these funds I guess.
It probably uses funds first and then whatever you have setup as your default payment method in PayPal which in my case would be a credit card.
Thanks.
I wanted to add paypal as a payment option on my Xbox One, but it didn't work, because of a problem on microsoft's end. I went to xbox.com and picked United States for that website as the region and went to my microsoft account on the top right. There under payment options I could add paypal as a payment option for United States after logging into my paypal account and approving of this process. Paypal is now a payment option for my account in the United States.
Now I'm going to try to pre-order Forza Horizon 3.
Edit: Pre-ordering worked and I also bought Telltale Batman Episode 1 to see how this works with the billing, taxes, etc.
Edit2: This works perfectly. It uses my Xbox US address as my billing address for the paypal purchases and all it takes for paypal is to convert the price from USD to EUR and charge me. Nice. I hope it stays this way.
Now I'm going to try to pre-order Forza Horizon 3.
Edit: Pre-ordering worked and I also bought Telltale Batman Episode 1 to see how this works with the billing, taxes, etc.
Edit2: This works perfectly. It uses my Xbox US address as my billing address for the paypal purchases and all it takes for paypal is to convert the price from USD to EUR and charge me. Nice. I hope it stays this way.
Bruh buy from Singapore or Hong King. Cheaper and you get to play Friday at 6pm. Perfect start to the weekend.
4 days earlier? How much cheaper?
Don't tell me you aren't buying the ultimate edition.
Ultimate edition owners get to play early on Friday 6pm our time if you buy from Hong Kong or Singapore.
It's 72 on there.
Considering retail without vip/car pass would be 60 here alone makes it a pretty good price, combined with the game unlocking right when the weekend starts (instead of the middle of the week) makes it just perfect.
That's what I'm saying. Ultimate edition is the way to go for Forza. Now Gears on the other hand not so much.
I'm never going to buy a Gold/Deluxe/Ultimate Edition for any game. I'll be paying ~54€ for my Forza experience and that's all I need. I'm perfectly fine with the stuff I'm going to get in the FH3 Standard Edition.