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Confirmed: SA games to begin receiving all Xbox Live content

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If there is one thing we have consistently moaned about here on Lazygamer, it’s the lack of Xbox Live content in our Microsoft games. It’s been a long road of reports, phone calls, emails and complaining from our side.

Not sure what we mean? How about that time that we reported that Gears of War 2 wouldn’t be getting the extra map packs and guns, so far as to even get a hold of Epic Games themselves as well as Microsoft’s head offices in the USA. Also, not to mention the fact that they were blocked anyways.

Maybe you remember when we also moaned about Forza 3’s lack of launch content or the time that we didn’t get the extra episode for Alan Wake.

Well ladies and gents, our complaints have a had a good run, but it looks like we may finally get some rest from our bitching and moaning, thanks to local confirmation provided by the good folks over at xboxgaming.co.za.

More info after the jump.

Now, as you already know Microsoft will be launching the Xbox Live service in South Africa in the near future.

Thanks to the confirmation by xboxgaming, we now know for sure the official release will bring with it a new era of non-screwed-in-the-ass-ed-ness, in other words, we will be getting all of the content that we should be.

Some of this seems rather obvious, right? Obviously, if we are getting Xbox Live we would get all the content, but with the way things have always gone, it wouldn’t have surprised me if our Xbox Live regions weren’t supported for specific content (or some jazz like that).

The report states that from now on we will be getting the same versions that are released in the United Kingdom. While xboxgaming had reported earlier this week that Halo: Reach limited and legendary editions were looking to miss out on some content in SA, they now have confirmation that it too, will include the content.

This is great news, and also hopefully comes as a second indication that our regions will have all of the previously blocked content unblocked and available for download. What’s still sad, is the fact that owners of Gears of War 2, Forza 3 and Alan Wake still won’t get the free content that belonged to them, even though they paid full price.

Great news then, no strange excuses or lack of response. It’s coming and we are getting it.

Case closed. We hope.

Source: XboxGaming.co.za

Last Updated: August 12, 2010

8 Comments

  1. This is definitely good news for local xbox live gamers. It’s amazing what we’ve missed out on in terms of DLC over the years (primarily because of the hypersensitive Germans).

    Any word on the region locking of most videos and content in the Zune Marketplace? I really just want to watch the recent The Guild episodes, without having to battle with bing on the PC. I don’t care about the premium stuff (since I’m on silver), just access to the Guild and that other webshow.

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  2. Nick de Bruyne

    August 12, 2010 at 19:22

    Well… in the past (present) we weren’t so much blocked… as much as not on the short list of countries that aren’t blocked. So in other words, everyone is blocked, but places like UK, US aren’t. Once Live hits in our regions, we should be added to that list, and then unless there are licensing issues like with rentals and certains shows, it should all be made available to us.

    So… I can’t see why we wouldn’t get access to The Guild again, unless it’s sponsored or licensed now, or something like that.

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  3. AC!D

    August 12, 2010 at 20:36

    Well this was a no brainer otherwise there would have been no point in even bringing Live to SA if the content is blocked and PSN contentisnt. Thanks for the confirmation Nick.

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  4. Nick de Bruyne

    August 12, 2010 at 22:07

    Yeah, but as I said in the post:

    “Some of this seems rather obvious, right? Obviously, if we are getting Xbox Live we would get all the content, but with the way things have always gone, it wouldn’t have surprised me if our Xbox Live regions weren’t supported for specific content (or some jazz like that).”

    You never know what to expect in these parts… there’s always something looking to bite us in the butt.

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  5. nazcanlines

    August 13, 2010 at 08:23

    Duke Nukem 3d!!!

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  6. AtomicZA

    August 13, 2010 at 08:51

    Too Late MS, I’ve already made up my mind to buy a PS3 as you have skrewed me far too many times.

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  7. Fox1

    August 13, 2010 at 09:22

    About time :cheerful:

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  8. Bobby Kotick scrobbled

    August 13, 2010 at 10:27

    I can’t see how they’d offer us video rentals, unless they strike a deal through DSTV or even.. shudder SABC (to provide local movies) or go through the legal process of sorting out licenses for us (highly unlikely).

    So most likely (and I’ll put my neck out) we’ll be getting the bare minimum again. Vanilla Live (at the cost of full Live), before they started to blocked our access to all the nice stuff. Does Last.fm on Live work for us? I haven’t used last.fm since they went pay-to-listen for the rest of the world, except Germany, the UK and the US.

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