It took me a lot of trial and error to figure this out, but I've figured it all out so you don't have to. You won't be able to use this account with the Zune Marketplace because the Zune Marketplace blocks purchases from credit cards that have non-US billing addresses.
Every time I've tried I get an error stating that "Your credit card information is not valid. Please verify and try again. The points you might have in your Xbox Live account won't be accessible to you in the Zune Marketplace - in fact, with the new Zune software when I tried to sign in with my "real" Passport account the one associated with my Xbox Live account it wouldn't even allow me to sign in, claiming that the "Zune Marketplace was unavailable".
As you can tell, the Zune team has done almost everything in their power to block non-US based Zune owners from accessing Zune marketplace content. But where there's a will, there's a way. Follow these steps to get to near-Zune Marketplace bliss:. Figure 3: The error screen you'll see if your computer location doesn't match the Live ID location. Copyright - Thoughts Media Inc.
Share your opinions, help others, and enter our contests. Eventually it will disappear forever which I found out recently with my original Xbox Live gamertag on Xbox 1 tied to a hotmail address I stopped using.
No chance of getting that back as I never got the chance to use it on so Microsofts new change regarding expired windows live ids does nothing for me. There are plenty of moderators I would trust with it : However, are you suggesting I ask one of them to change it for me on their Xbox?
If so, I could ring up one of my friends and ask them to do it for me. Search In. Share More sharing options Followers 0. Recommended Posts. Calum Veteran Posted July 25, Posted July 25, Does anybody know how I can go about changing it now or what I could go about doing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options I'm a bit confused, can't you just create a new Windows live ID account?
I have 4 of them. Author Veteran. Don't get me started! It really makes your blood boil. And the region associated with your Zune account affects what content is shown in marketplace. Friday, August 12, PM. Hi Eric, Thanks for reply. Honestly speaking - sometimes it is quite annoying - number of devices we can register, the registration procedure, limitations for regions and countries, problems with locale settings in Zune, tens of legal acceptings, tools registrations, etc.
I am Symbian developers for years and with the Nokia movement to Windows Phone I am moving to this platform as well and those obstacles simply consumes a lot of my enthusiasm: I have experiences with uploads on almost all markets Ovi, Android Market and Apple and honestly - Windows Marketplace causes me the headache most see e.
Hope it will change in the future. But to not be too pessimistic. I really appreciate that you - guys from Microsoft - are replying on the forum.
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