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MaffewE

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Ultimate Game Sale is back, starts up on the 7th, runs until the 13th:

'Here is a sneak peak of the Ultimate Game Sale, 70 of the best deals we’ll offer all summer starting 7 July...'

https://twitter.com/majornelson/status/616622571232964608

Brief video in the Tweet, showing that games will include Diablo III, Mortal Kombat X, Far Cry 4, Borderlands Ultimate Collection, Ori.. and Goat Simulator.

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I know I'm only going to be laughed at but I've been having UI problems again.

Got the Preview invite, horrah! Lets go get it to download. Went to My Apps, checked that the download was queued because of Killer Instinct, which was at 86%.

Waited for a few minutes, it wasn't going above 86%. Hm, I thought. Maybe I need to boot the game, like you do sometimes for Vita titles before it realizes there's an update to download.

Nope, game just started playing as normal, even gave me a 10point achievement I don't know what for. Went back to the dashboard, tried pressing the 86% itself to 'pause' it. Nope, no such option that I can see.

can't remember if it was Back or Start (the buttons that are nor Back nor Start these days) and saw, horrah! Theres a pause button! Paused the download.

Except the Preview didn't start downloading in it's place.

So then I figured I'm try uninstalling Killer Instinct, it's not like I play it, bought nothing from it, and holy crap it's over 26 gigs anyway.

Uninstall, and then confirm uninstall, didn't uninstall the game. :(

I tried a few more times as to why it wasn't uninstalling, maybe because the game was on? I noticed that via the start button you can stop the game 'completely' that way. So I did.

Uninstall. Killer Instinct is still not uninstalled.

I would hope Preview has installed itself the next time I swtich the thing on, doubt it though.

Fucking metro fucking interface fuck fuckery fuck fuck.

sigh

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SnoopZakaDaVe

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What's the trick to using the Russian store. Do you need a Russian billing address?

yeah just change your region on xbox.com to russia and used the hilton hotel in moscow for billing address, remains to be seen if i get an overseas charge though

Someone mentioned where they buy their US cards from and now I can't find that post for the life of me.

Sunset is $40 or £40 so it seems if I'm going to buy it from the Ultimate sale I should probably be looking to get it from the US store.

i just tend to just use amazon to get us gift cards, not sure if you need to but i use oregon university as a billing address

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Someone mentioned where they buy their US cards from and now I can't find that post for the life of me.

Sunset is $40 or £40 so it seems if I'm going to buy it from the Ultimate sale I should probably be looking to get it from the US store.

Amazon.com, or alternatively, PCgamesupply. I use the former, my brother uses the latter. Both are pretty easy to use. With PCgamesupply you only have to faff around with a US address on your XBone, with amazon you have to faff around with a US address on both.

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you shouldn't have to faff around with a US address on your console at all if you buy a gift card, just change console locale to usa, redeem code and purchse game, then change back to UK. unless that's what you mean, in which case it's not much faff at all it just reboots the console quickly

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Where did you get Russian gift cards from Snoop? That was the missing piece of the puzzle for me found a Russian guy claiming he'd buy them for people but didn't fancy trusting him blindly ;)

Get US credit from gametimezone.com

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It is I have it on my toolbar alongwith

http://www.gametimezone.com/shop/

(oops just saw Yoshimax posted that ) ok then another useful one (for physical discs)

http://xboxpricecheck.com/

I always try and order exact amount so I dont have leftover US credit. Gametimezone theoretically won't sell you $60 as 3 * $15 as they only allow 2 cards per order. They do allow multiple orders but you might need to give them a nudge as they might flag the order to be checked. Have used them alot tho and they are a very good bunch v reliable.

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Just had a good customer service experience.

I tried to redeem a £50 Xbox store card yesterday via xbox.com but seemingly at exactly the same time as there was some kind of billing problem with their core services. Long story short I tried to redeem it and twice and got error messages. On the third time it said the code had been used but it applied £0.00 to my account instead of the £50 :(

Tried the live chat today and after about 10 minutes of security measures/taking my account info and the service centre guy apologising quite a lot he got it escalated and the funds are being put into my account within 24 hours. Out of the blue he asked me what I was going to get with the funds and after a few minutes he came back to me and said I should expect a complimentary code for Elite Dangerous (what I was going to buy) in my inbox along with the confirmation email that'll say the £50 has been credited to the account.

Very impressed.

So I tweeted this out yesterday on the rllmuk account & mentioned @askplaystation & @xboxsupport in the tweet.

Only one replied guess which?

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Neogaf's down, what's the story?

Working for me but here's the post -

XBOX ONE ONLY

Microsoft seems to have decided completely against both cross-regional PayPal and credit card use. Now the only way to buy stuff is with Microsoft Xbox Gift Cards. These are sold in many places but the best way is to go to Amazon.com and buy them there. Below is a direct link to that page.

http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-Gift-Card...dp/B00F4CEHNK/

You need a couple of things to buy from the US Store. Create a vPost account and use that address when adding your credit card to Amazon.com and when adding a billing address on your Xbox. Using that would make sure that the address you use is actually linked to you, even though all the codes will be sent by email (remember to buy "online game code" and not "card"). Remember that you must choose the vPost address as yourAmazon.com billing address or you won't be able to buy the codes.

Using the address from vPost lets you buy from the US Store. Since it is an Oregon address you will not have any added sales tax.

With these things in hand, follow these instructions:

  1. On your Xbox One go to Settings>System>Language & Location and change your Location to United States and press reboot.
  2. Go to Settings>Payment & Billing>Change/Add billing address
  3. Enter your name and the address provided by vPost
  4. Redeem your codes from Amazon
  5. Buy stuff
  6. (Optional) Change back region to whatever it was before, don't worry, you can change as often as you want and your billing info is saved for the next time you want to switch to the US Store and buy something.
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Working for me but here's the post -

XBOX ONE ONLY

Microsoft seems to have decided completely against both cross-regional PayPal and credit card use. Now the only way to buy stuff is with Microsoft Xbox Gift Cards. These are sold in many places but the best way is to go to Amazon.com and buy them there. Below is a direct link to that page.

http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-Gift-Card...dp/B00F4CEHNK/

You need a couple of things to buy from the US Store. Create a vPost account and use that address when adding your credit card to Amazon.com and when adding a billing address on your Xbox. Using that would make sure that the address you use is actually linked to you, even though all the codes will be sent by email (remember to buy "online game code" and not "card"). Remember that you must choose the vPost address as yourAmazon.com billing address or you won't be able to buy the codes.

Using the address from vPost lets you buy from the US Store. Since it is an Oregon address you will not have any added sales tax.

With these things in hand, follow these instructions:

  1. On your Xbox One go to Settings>System>Language & Location and change your Location to United States and press reboot.
  2. Go to Settings>Payment & Billing>Change/Add billing address
  3. Enter your name and the address provided by vPost
  4. Redeem your codes from Amazon
  5. Buy stuff
  6. (Optional) Change back region to whatever it was before, don't worry, you can change as often as you want and your billing info is saved for the next time you want to switch to the US Store and buy something.

OR...

1) go to gametimezone buy codes with paypal they never ask where you live so no faffing

2) go to xbox.com login and click on region in bottom left and choose US

3) redeem your US codes

4) Buy the game you want

5) Click on the region and switch back to UK

no faffing with rebooting machines etc all done on PC with a few clicks.

EDIT - ooh I think first time you do it if you switch browser to US and redeem a code it asks for an address. just pick one from somewhere in US

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Yoshimax

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The only exception I've encountered to Clippers way (which is what I do although I never changed xbox.com back) is if you buy a game that's only out in the US - I've found I have to switch my console region, kick off the download then switch back in those instances - although it may be because I don't have a "home" console.

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