Questions about Region Locks

[Letrico]

Cheers I think I had a few typo here and there was rushing the post but hope you understand what I'm trying to say

I've researched plenty about PC region locking

[8BitRager]

Originally Posted by Letrico

Cheers I think I had a few typo here and there was rushing the post but hope you understand what I'm trying to say

I've researched plenty about PC region locking

I'll keep this in mind. This has always been a question on my mind when it came to region locking. This'll help me a lot with future purchases

[KnightOfTruth]

Not to hijack but just for clarification, if Uplay games lock DLC on consoles, is that ALWAYS or just sometimes?

I was debating on getting Watchdogs DeadSec or just picking up our version over here (without any DLC grrrr...) and also getting the Black Chest version of AC4 both for the 360. My understanding is that I can play the games without using a UK gamertag or anything like that but that I may need a UK gamertag to redeem and access the DLC? Is that how it works?

Edit: Also, if I play the UK versions on my US 360 and CANT access the UK DLC, can I buy the US DLC and use it with the UK game? <brain explodes>

Thanks for the clarification oh wise ones!

[Letrico]

Originally Posted by KnightOfTruth

Not to hijack but just for clarification, if Uplay games lock DLC on consoles, is that ALWAYS or just sometimes?

I was debating on getting Watchdogs DeadSec or just picking up our version over here (without any DLC grrrr...) and also getting the Black Chest version of AC4 both for the 360. My understanding is that I can play the games without using a UK gamertag or anything like that but that I may need a UK gamertag to redeem and access the DLC? Is that how it works?

Edit: Also, if I play the UK versions on my US 360 and CANT access the UK DLC, can I buy the US DLC and use it with the UK game? <brain explodes>

Thanks for the clarification oh wise ones!

Based on my finding, uplay region lock is most likely the upass lock depending on your uplay account region. That is you won't be able to activate the pass on your US account with UK copy of the game.

Standard gameplay will not be locked unless they specifically said to have region lock. Slightly different with Xbox as publishers can region lock it but they seemed to have dropped the idea for few years already.

You will not be able to purchase US dlc with UK disc as the system will treat it as you don't have the base game. Most likely the problem is with the language content i am not sure. That was what happened last year but I am not sure if they lifted that but I doubt they did.

If you want I can look deeper into it and see what I can find

[KnightOfTruth]

Originally Posted by Letrico

Based on my finding, uplay region lock is most likely the upass lock depending on your uplay account region. That is you won't be able to activate the pass on your US account with UK copy of the game.

Standard gameplay will not be locked unless they specifically said to have region lock. Slightly different with Xbox as publishers can region lock it but they seemed to have dropped the idea for few years already.

You will not be able to purchase US dlc with UK disc as the system will treat it as you don't have the base game. Most likely the problem is with the language content i am not sure. That was what happened last year but I am not sure if they lifted that but I doubt they did.

If you want I can look deeper into it and see what I can find

Yeah, I'd really like to know for certain - I suppose I can always go and trade in my PAL version in and pick up a standard NTSC-U version and use that and just be out the DLC (maybe sell that on Ebay.co.uk or something?).

If I didn't have to do that though, that'd be great - but like you said, they could lock it through the uPlay, through the disc itself, through the DLC, so many different ways to annoy us. If you could find out more through whatever means you may have, I'd really appreciate it, thanks!