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First thing to know is that I don't live in the US, I live in Ireland. We don't have Netflix, Amazon video-on-demand or even the Zune Music Pass. I accept that som of these things aren'y aveilable outside the US for a reason, however today was the last straw for me. Today whilst browsing the interwebs I found a sorta-ish funny video of a douchebag shouting and raging while playing The Impossible Game. Video NSFW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E96i-u_5E0&list=SL

The video spiked an interest in the game and so I looked it up, how thrilled was I when I saw it was only 80 MS points on xbox.com, the exact amount I had left over from previous purchases. I said "What the hell? Why not?" and turned on my console, signed in, went into the games marketplace and ... nothing. I double and tripple checked for the game under every plausible category. I noticed however something strange while doing this and after a few google searches my suspicion was proven correct. The Indie marketplace is completely unaveilable in Ireland. Even though the UK is A-okay, Ireland is completely ignored.



I had run into something similar a few weeks ago aswell. The voice recognition for Kinect is also unaveilable in Ireland, something which makes sense, to an extent, with the varrious accents and what not. However when I called Microsoft to cancel my xbox live auto-matic re-newel I asked if there was going to be an update which would ad in support for Kinect owners. The response I was given was to change my location to the UK and it should work offline. Offline only. If this seems okay to you thats fine, however it isn't for me.

Anyway this is just me raging against MS because of two annoying and stupid mistakes hit me back-to-back. I know though that there are other examples of region location BS and I want to hear them. Post below, if your bothered enough.

[Ed] I found The Impossible Game on iTunes and fucking hate that I love it so much. FUCKING TRIPPLE TRIANGLES!!
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I'm Canadian... so I hear you. The thing is that different media are covered by differing rights in different Countries. It's a pain in the butt, given that the world is a smaller place now, but it's also just the way things currently are. We finally did get netflix and the TV/movie store in Canada, but it was many years behind the U.S. and even now we don't have the same range of content.
I live in Kildare so I sympathize with you quite a bit. You hear about all these great competing services between the consoles but very few of them are available here.

On the other hand you also see people incessantly whining over PSN download speeds, where something that takes me three minutes takes an American thrice as long. Also we have RTE on the PS3 (for all the good that's worth). There's bad and there's good, I guess.
@ Byronic
Funny thing about the RTE player is that the best thing on it is Life with David Attenborough, which is BBC.
I'm from Waterford and I'm worrying about some of this for the upcoming 3DS. Nintendo have announced over 10,000 AT&T hotspots for the 3DS and Netflix which of course won't be available. And Sky and Eurosport are going onto it as well, however, it is still unlikely we'll get these.

And yes RTÉ on the PS3 is awful, I just watch BBC shows through it.
I'm an Aussie living in Japan with hardware and software from multiple regions. I could go on for ever about this topic. I do feel your pain. May I recommend taking your Xbox on a date up North for a day?

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