TorpedoTed:

You'll most likely need a US-based credit card to buy it. I know I can't even buy stuff on my UK account with a UK credit card on a US console.

I remember they used a lemonade stand as an analogy for how licensing restrict where they can put things out. It's a crappy fucking analogy. They need to put out a detailed explanation and then - I dunno - FIX IT.

Ah well, Microsoft will be Microsoft, eh?

Yeah, Xbox Live Germany sucks compared to US. Not to mention that fact that I can't read half the stuff on there. (I'm an American living in Germany.)

i live in germany and i bought a 360 two weeks ago. i used to play rez on the dreamcast back in the day. i would have totally bought that game for 500 points.
worst of all: there is no gears of war 2 in germany!
at least we got the 20 GB HD upgrade with a 3 month xbox live gold subscription for 25€.

@Jim

Have you tried reedem vouchers? If they are region specific just buy them off amercian ebay as they only email you the code...

There are ways, have to crack the system, well thats what i tell myself...

Right im gonna listen to Rage Agaisnt the Machine...

@ Reverend Slim

wow dude, mental rant.....

Wardrox hates video games.

@ Reverend Slim

You do realise these sales are for Black Friday, not Thanksgiving, right? Changes things a bit.

Anyway, its the Internet. Global Community and all that. Rather silly that in this day and age that anything is region locked. Even more frustrating when people aren't told why this is happening.

The space bucks, they make no sense!

"and wait until it's your turn."

Other territories don't *get* a turn, that's the thing. US and Japan gets incentives, Europe and Australia gets fuck all.

My point is this -- Rez HD is 500 Points in the US. It's 800 in Europe. How can MS justifiably suggest that a European should spend the extra money, knowing full well it's cheaper for other people? It can't.

Global market is global.

is it because we don't celebrate Black Friday or Thanksgiving (they are US holidays)?

I know maybe we in Europe should get equal treatment when it comes to full on price cuts, but we don't celebrate any of the American holidays, exceot maybe Halloween.

Hey, I'm not arguing that Microsoft doesn't shaft other regions. Hell, look at how they bend Canadians over on Microsoft points (though one could argue that they deserve it for unleashing Bryan Adams and Celine Dion upon the world). But you can't expect them to give the whole world a gift for an American holiday, and saying that they can't throw someone a bone without throwing everyone a bone will only serve to keep them from throwing ANYONE a bone. Also, saying that this is a global market issue is tantamount to arguing that Game in the UK should drop their prices every time Gamestop in the U.S. does.

Go figure that you cynical fucks have turned a nice holiday gesture into some bizarre xenophobic Microsoft conspiracy. Y'know what? If you want Rez HD, PAY THE 800 POINTS. It's a great game and the developers deserve the money. U.S. or not, if you wanted to play Rez HD, the chances are pretty damn good that you already threw down your magical spacebucks. The rest of the games in this deal are utter dreck anyway.

Don't get me wrong I hate to pay more for something than someone else as much as any other person in the world. But I'm not really pissed about this. Seeing that the whole Black Friday Sale concepts only exists in the US I can understand why it doesn't come to the rest of the world.
But Microsoft the should do similar stuff that is related to the other nations culture. e.g. they could offer a special deal on every countries national holiday.

America: becuase one country is more important than the rest of the world.

@Reverend Slim: You still don't get it. Australian and European customers get shafted on a daily basis. Do you know what the average retail price of games is over here? About $80. Really? Really. No fucking kidding.

When we finally get a nice homogeneous global internet marketplace type dealio like Xbox Live, we expect it to work in our advantage. We're optimists, sue us.
We don't have the Video Marketplace or Inside Xbox section or a very watered down version of it, no Community Playdate, no Verizon Family Nights, no nothing. Free Xbox Weekends that are advertised but appear nonexistent. AND we pay more money for our points AND for the Xbox Live service. The content that we see as equal on XBLA is the content that's available everywhere like REZ, Worms, etc. I'd like to see Microsoft treat the customers of those products equally. It wouldn't be that hard to extend a price cut globally, they've done it before.

Ehh nobody cares about eroupe anyway there not important.

I was going to write a clear and concise argument against you Reverend Slim but then I thought: What's the point? Ferris Wheeler and others have been doing that admirably to no avail so instead I shall resort to childish insults.

You're a dick.

Huzzah!

Reposted due to wireless keyboard = shit at being wireless and keyboardlike. (Typos).

Also @ Cube's point wasn't there a recent study showing that we spend more on games in Europe than Americans? (Although this is probably down to the huge gaping price difference.)

Well I live in S. Korea, and since America owns S. Korea shouldn't I get the benefits of US XBL? I can't even download the free Guild episodes *sniff*.

Also, when I made my account I listed myself as in the US. I still can't access a lot of stuff, is it because my console is a Korean Region 3 console?

So out of curiosity, you guys crying cause americans are gonna get some great deals tomorrow?

I mean its the same thing.

time for a european console manufacturer that cares about PAL.