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[XSX, XB1] Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age (Definitive Ed.) ₺106.80 (~A$4.80) @ Xbox Store Turkey (VPN Required)

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[XSX, XB1] Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age (Definitive Ed.) ₺106.80 (~A$4.80) @ Xbox Store Turkey (VPN Required)
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dansozb on 20/07/2024 - 07:50 xbox.com (492 clicks)
Last edited 22/07/2024 - 10:41 by 2 other users

Hi there, I'm not sure if posting prices in other countries is a deal, but I looked for info on if buying from the Turkish store (for my Australian account) was still possible and couldn't find any info, so hopefully this helps others (As I really wanted to play Dragon Quest with my son, but it's around $50 on the AU store and I wasn't sure if he was going to like it, for $4 AU that sounds like a better deal)

Short story, yes, you can buy from the Turkish Xbox store (when logging in with your Australian account) and buy games fine without any credit card, if you use a Turkish Xbox Gift Card (I got mine here: for $14 - https://www.eneba.com/xbox-xbox-live-gift-card-300-try-xbox-…)

My steps:
1. Bought a 300 TRY Xbox Card (around $20 with fees)
2. Used a free VPN to change my location to Turkey (I used a Surfshark 7 Day trial)
3. Logged into the Xbox website using my Xbox AU details
4. Bought the games I wanted (all the Final Fantasy ones are hugely discounted too)
5. Chose - Use gift card balance as the payment method
6. It asked me to change my address to a Turkish one (I just used a address generator website for the details)
7. Item bought with no issues (I then changed my address back without issue and could keep buying from the Turkish store using the remaining credit)
8. All games downloaded and played fine on my Australian XBOX and account.

Hopefully this is helpful for others wondering if you can still do the same.

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  • punkindrublic on 20/07/2024 - 08:36

    Daft question perhaps, but I only have Xbox for PC. I recall Microsoft talking up the ability to play its games on multiple systems - does that extend to PC as well in this case?

    • Teh White Mamba on 20/07/2024 - 09:05
      +1

      you need to check on the shop if under capabilities it has "play anywhere" or check the list of play anywhere titles then they will work on both pc and xbox.

  • Commodore64 on 20/07/2024 - 09:12

    I believe you can only change your xbox location once every 6 months, so consider if it's worth setting your location to Turkey for one game.

    • Dienk on 20/07/2024 - 09:14

      Change the location using VPN, not ms account

      • Commodore64 on 20/07/2024 - 09:19
        +1

        Didn't it ask you to change your address to a Turkish one… wouldn't this update your account?

        • dansozb on 20/07/2024 - 11:50

          It did on the website when I applied my gift card, but when I went back to my Xbox everything worked great, no need to change any regions and I could still purchase stuff from the Australian store (using Gamepass) without issue.
          As I don't ever plan on buying games now via the Australian store (and seeing how easy this was) The Turkish one, I have no issue with not changing the address again.

      • TheDukeOfNukem on 20/07/2024 - 09:32
        +1
        1. It asked me to change my address to a Turkish one (I just used a address generator website for the details)
        • snoopydoop on 20/07/2024 - 10:33

          Is this the same as setting your Xbox region? Or more of a billing thing?

          • TheDukeOfNukem on 20/07/2024 - 11:02
            +1

            @snoopydoop: On my account, I just said I lived in Turkey rather than Australia, on the website. If I didn't do that, it kept saying the code was from another region.

            For what it's worth to all,
            I didn't get told about any number of changes I could do. I didn't get told anything. My MS Rewards points were both still there AND I could earn more while signed in to Turkey, where in the day MS Rewards would always shit the bed if the region didn't line up. Seems as though it's even easier than ever based on this, to swap regions temporarily.

            • tacocat287 on 31/07/2024 - 11:40

              @TheDukeOfNukem:

              On my account, I just said I lived in Turkey rather than Australia, on the website. If I didn't do that, it kept saying the code was from another region.

              I'm having this issue where the store and account region are not matching despite setting both store and account as Turkey. I was wondering how you set yours to Turkey in your account?

              • Mikael on 31/07/2024 - 14:13

                @tacocat287: Had similar problem before. Think I changed in Microsoft itself as well and not through Xbox. Now using turkey profile to buy games and set user as Xbox home. Can play on other profiles. My main one got the cheap Xbox ultimate. Don't wanna touch that too much. Not 100% sure but think had to change it there.

              • TheDukeOfNukem on 02/08/2024 - 22:26

                @tacocat287: Just did it again dude, it's as easy as swap the region and turn on the VPN.

                I went to my account on the browser
                Set the country to Turkey
                Turned on my VPN (free Chrome extension, "Urban VPN"), to Turkey
                Entered the code from Eneba (bought another 100 for Serious Sam Collection and 3 other games with the change)
                Hit buy on the games I wanted
                Swapped back to Australian region

                Crazy how easy this is. Shame the price of everything in Turkey going forward is significantly higher, they'd be pricing out an entire country based on a handful of cheap (profanity) like us around the world. Shame for me, huge shame for them.

    • netsurfer on 20/07/2024 - 11:05

      Another approach is to create a new account in Turkey region. Buy using that account and leave your main account untouched.

      • Mikael on 21/07/2024 - 10:52

        @netsurfer yeah I do that. Got the 36month ultimate on one and set to aus. The other one turkey and buy games using gc and set as home Xbox. Download and can play on any profiles on Xbox. Too bad oldubil doesn't work anymore.

  • teeendee on 20/07/2024 - 09:14
    +2

    Great game with tons of content. Recommend.

  • TheDukeOfNukem on 20/07/2024 - 10:35
    +2

    Thought I'd give it a go for the shit of it to see if it's as easy as it used to be. $19.14 AUD later and I've got almost a dozen more games I don't need.

    Picked up the original Modern Warfare trilogy because of how annoyingly overpriced they are in Australia (already have MW1 and 2 remastered but honestly the file size is poopoo for every time I want to go play All Ghillied Up), the Arkham trilogy bc why not I only own them on PS3 and Steam already, Terminator Resistance complete edition, already own the game but wasn't going to pay what they wanted for the DLC, I got a discount as a previous owner but it was still around 40 bucks from memory, the discount carried over to Turkey and I paid 25 TRY for it, very agreeable price and keen as a bean to jump back into that, Brutal Legend bc I never actually finished it on PS3 and I'll consider it a political donation to Jack Black at this point, Sunset Overdrive bc why not it was fun and I never finished it, goddamn (profanity) Ms Pacman bc that was all the change I had left for after buying dun dun dun duuuuuuuun, the stupid ass Lord of the Rings: Gollum game which may actually be fun, idk, but I'm fine with the price.

    All in all, for under 20 bucks I got a DLC I'm VERY excited to play, a Gollum game I'll happily burn through, Modern Warfare 3 to put on the Series S (I like survival mode and my disc obviously doesn't work in the S, and the emulated Wii version needs to be connected to defunct servers to play survival), and a bunch of other shit. Very happy OP, good job.

    • netsurfer on 20/07/2024 - 10:50

      From Xbox Game Pass Ultimate: 36M ₺1034,72/~A$60 (+ Fees) @ Microsoft Turkey (No VPN) deal, I created a separate account to do it and had been buying cheaper games from M$ Turkey store. It used to allow AU credit cards, but now, it must be a TR credit card (or gift card credit).

      To find some current deals, use the standard XBox Web AU URL and change "en-AU" to "tr-TR". For example:

      https://www.xbox.com/tr-TR/games/browse/ultimate-game-sale
      https://www.xbox.com/tr-TR/promotions/sales/sales-and-specia…

      For example: RDR2 for XBox is ~186₺ ($8.42 AUD). Pity I bought it from AU store years ago.

      However, you need to add 20% to the price shown on screen (because VAT is 20%, basically Turkey GST is 20%) + the fee and conversation ratio overhead when buying the gift card. Microsoft adds the VAT (20%) at the checkout phase, unlike AU store where it shows you the price including GST right away. On occasions, some games can be 80-90% cheaper than here.

      • TheDukeOfNukem on 20/07/2024 - 11:04

        Yeah, some of the games on there were crazy cheap. Shame most of the newer ones have, like Game Pass, been bumped up significantly. I still intend to buy GTA6 entirely with MS Rewards points (got about 50 bucks loaded at the moment casually) but if it wasn't for knowing the price will likely be quite high, I'd just hop over to Turkey and back.

        • dansozb on 20/07/2024 - 11:54

          Yes, it seemed a bit random, some games (Like DQ and Final Fantasy, and Outer Wilds which I also got) were super cheap, others (mostly newer) were the same price, or a lot more so I guess it's up to the publisher.
          I also then checked PlayStation in Turkey to see what it was like there, and those games are still around the same price, guessing MS are not selling as much in Turkey than Sony, so hence the cheaper prices across the board?

      • Jklaro on 28/08/2024 - 07:56

        Can you help with wrong region.

        I deleted my addresses set to turkey then vpn. Go to the game it ask for an address i put one in then says wrong area wrong region.

    • dansozb on 20/07/2024 - 11:52

      Yes, this was my problem!, I had 300 credit (I only needed 100 for Dragon Quest) so then wasted an hour looking at what I should use the rest for, so I guess (factoring in my time, I probably spent more in the long run!)
      Oh well, all the classic PS Final Fantasy games were on sale, so I picked them up for like, $1 AU each)

  • kid-vhee on 20/07/2024 - 12:15

    Definitely against Xbox/MS ToS. I'd used a secondary Microsoft account to do this.

  • DangerDave11 on 20/07/2024 - 13:07
    +1

    You can get the below for just under 300try (around AUD $16) :) :) :)

    jade empire 9.9 try
    need for speed ultimate 40 try
    terminator complete 60 try
    final fantasy royal 63.5try
    escapists 2 goty 19.06 try
    marvel v capcom infinite deluxe 41.59try
    call of juarez bib 5.8try
    call of juarez the cartel 7.8try
    sunset overdrive deluxe 17.35try
    homefront revolution freedom fighter 5try

  • rajuvd on 20/07/2024 - 21:17

    I tried to use my TR currency using wise card but it didn't accept, it gave message "The region where your payment option is issued must match your Store region."
    Then I tried buying Xbox gift card from eneba.com, there it asked me local mobile number, as I don't have local number I gave AU mobile and payment didn't go thru.
    Is there any simple way to get this purchase successful?

    • netsurfer on 20/07/2024 - 21:50
      +1

      Gift card is the only way. You need to figure out a way to buy XBox Turkey store credit.

      Virtual Turkey credit cards (i.e. credit cards which do not require proof of living in Turkey) are banned from being used to buy products or services not run by a real Turkish company (i.e. Microsoft, Netflix, etc…). The reason Turkey XBox cards work is because people in Turkey bought them then sell online. That's the only loophole remaining for us.

      • Brainwhacker on 26/07/2024 - 15:42

        Just checking if you are doing this using your main Xbox account ?

  • corgi-runner on 20/07/2024 - 21:48

    Anyone else have issues with the Xbox Turkey checkout webpage not translating to English?!

    • netsurfer on 20/07/2024 - 21:53
      +1

      Use your phone to translate (Google Translate via phone camera) as a workaround. Normally, I don't bother, you get used to it. If you accidentally clicked on Cancel, try again and click on the other button.

  • Bretttick on 22/07/2024 - 15:19

    I'm guessing this is the new way to get Dev mode?

    • dazza826 on 22/07/2024 - 21:43

      Vpn does work for purchasing dev mode.

  • Jklaro on 28/08/2024 - 07:54
    +1

    Can anyone help with wrong region.

    I deleted my addresses set to turkey then vpn. Go to the game it ask for an address i put one in then says wrong area wrong region.

    • jdfurbz on 31/08/2024 - 19:15

      Hey, I'm having the same issue all of a sudden. I've spent the past few months getting all my games for cheap from the Turkey store with no problems. Now, as of last night, I'm also getting the "incorrect region" error while using a vpn. I have a feeling MS is finally closing this loophole unfortunately.

      • Mikael on 31/08/2024 - 21:21

        Arghh. Same for me tonight. Using Nord

      • Jklaro on 01/09/2024 - 13:12

        Ive found a way around it. I actually got a spare series s i hardly use and i set that console to turkey and you can use the try gift voucher on the console directly

        • Mikael on 01/09/2024 - 15:35

          Someone else in other post said similar. I got the turkey on my main s. My Australian one with 24month left ultimate from the 36month deal a year ago. Don't really wanna touch that too much. So you saying change region to turkey on Xbox. Reboot. Log on using my Turkish xbox account. No vpn. Go and buy games using my gc balance in TRY. Download game. Change region back to Australia and all good to go?

          • Jklaro on 01/09/2024 - 15:54

            @Mikael: Yep

            • Mikael on 01/09/2024 - 17:07
              +1

              @Jklaro: Just tried. Worked fine. Thank you.

              • Jklaro on 09/09/2024 - 19:42

                @Mikael: I think microsoft patched that also now. Mine no longer works.

                • Mikael on 09/09/2024 - 22:14

                  @Jklaro: Yeah, just tried too. Doesn't work. Got 822TRY Left. Perhaps can use it one day.

                  • Jklaro on 10/09/2024 - 08:04

                    @Mikael: Ow k. Yer ive got 100ish. Hopefully its like a shadow ban. Try again in October

    • dazza826 on 09/09/2024 - 17:11

      The only definitive option at the moment for affected accounts is to create a new one.

      Incorrect region now follows you to console and website even using vpn.

      Some people have had success with using a residential turkish ip address or have had the account start working after a period of time.

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