Anyone use X-Box Live outside USA and Hawaii?

[Kumar J]

I got an US X-box and wanted to get X-box live but the Microsoft team here gives me a hundred excuses and refuses to even let me try out the X-box live from Japan.Can I just buy the kit from US and then register it at US and use the unit from Japan?

[joltaddict]

I have never met anyone on live outside of the US or Canada.

EDIT - I have played on Ghost Recon servers where everybody else was british. Forgot.

[sdcrym]

Sorry to be off topic, but why did you exclude Hawaii from the USA in your thread title?

[RoQuEr]

cause everyone knows hawaii isn't part of the USA

Duh

[CaptDS9E]

Im pretty sure x-box live would work outside the U.S. People in Europe have been using live since it came out here. Some people couldnt wait to get there hands on it :-)

capt

[Decker]

Originally posted by RoQuEr
cause everyone knows hawaii isn't part of the USA

Duh
Yeah, being a kamaina myself (Hawaii born and raised), I've always been a little touchy about that. Once at Kinko's in Long Beach, CA, they tried to charge me the international rate to fax a document to my Dad in Honolulu. I couldn't explain to them that it's not an International call. Some people are pretty slow to get their news.

[goLUCKY]

I've play GP moto with people in europe. But it's been a while since I played europe. I know the even if they had fever 2003, they could not play it LIVE. So I think that the regional servers that can block games would block no regional players. ;)

Add one grain of salt after reading this post, becuase I have no friggin idea.

[fujishig]

You know, Decker, I feel the same way. It's amazing how many people don't realize that Hawaii is a state... I mean, it's not even a territory...

Although maybe the poster was wondering if anyone outside the continental US could use Xbox Live, which is a perfectly valid question considering how many services, etc. aren't valid in Alaska or Hawaii.

As an aside, I watched an episode of Meet My Folks the other week, and three of the girls didn't even know how many states we have in the US...

[Kumar J]

I know X-box live can be used in Canada and the other US states,but to use it in Japan,with an US X-box is very hard.
Both side of the X-beam, in Japan and also in USA does not answer any of the emails,it's like they do not know themselves if it will work or not.
I guess the only way to find out is to buy a Live kit and register in the US and use the Japan servers,just hope they do not block me

[mytzplyx]

I actually posted about this a couple months ago, being that I live in Japan myself. I'm pretty sure it works because on the official XBOX.com page, if you do a search in their forums, there are quite a bit of military personnel stationed here that are using XBOX live. Anyways, I plan to pick one up soon.

[Kumar J]

Well in that case I will pick up one also from the USA! :)