Xbox Live Rant

[Luke122]

How many people here have Xbox live, and use the marketplace to download/watch movies, tv shows, clips, etc?

Show of hands..

Ok, now, How many of those people are in the US?

Lots right? How many movies/tv shows do you have? 300ish movies, and tons of clips/tv shows right?

In Canada, we have.... 22 movies on the Live Marketplace, and 2 tv shows, with a few episodes of each. Not only that, but maybe 5 of those movies are decent, 4 are available in HD, and the rest are all B-movies or old junk.

I called MS today to ask about this, and the response was:

"Content in Canada is licensed differently than in the US, and we are still pursuing licensing to offer more in Canada."

That's pretty much the biggest brush off in history. If I had paid for my Xbox live membership, i'd be truly pissed off.. since it was a gift, I'm still pissed, but what can you do? I registered my complaint, and went onto the xbox live forums to vent, and saw an entire thread full of mad as hell Canucks.

There are more of us out there I'm sure.

[gaz_the_chav]

Same for me in the UK Sweet FA really in the way of content.

Could'nt agree more!

-gaz

[DaveW]

Like Gaz said, we get the screwy end of the stick too.

The official line is 'We treat Europe as a single market, and have to work on translations, etc.'

It's a load of balls, and everyone knows it. Why they still use these lame-ass excuses is anyone's guess. They use that line when trying to defend the 200% price hike in the UK too.

-Dave

[Scotty]

Its the same with iTunes, look at the US version of the store, Movies etc etc, the UK version? Not a single full length feature film at all. Not that i use the store, but it's stupid why offer it in the US and not the UK.

Then they have the cheek to charge those in the UK MORE than the US... Who are obviosly using more storage space and bandwidth because of the movies...

Hell the price on anything in the UK. Is lame.

[killergamer]

I guess I'm lucky then to bad I don't have a Xbox360

[Mitternacht]

Wow. I didn't know it was hard for outside USA customers. But if you were toprogram your 360 to say you live in USA, would you then get the USA content or would they know by your ISP?

[.Maleficus.]

Wow. I didn't know it was hard for outside USA customers. But if you were toprogram your 360 to say you live in USA, would you then get the USA content or would they know by your ISP?

They wouldn't know by the ISP, they would know by the IP.

And, unless you're an extreme hacker, I don't think that would even be possible. Even to the extreme hackers it's pushing it.

[gaz_the_chav]

I guess I'm lucky then to bad I don't have a Xbox360

Not meaning this in a ****ty way honest but this is from a man with halo image in their sig lolz

-gaz

[Omega]

Halo CE & Halo 2 are playable on the PC.

[Luke122]

Even if you set your location on the console to the US, the points cards that you purchase are region specific... I've already tried this.