There is no Bosnian store. If a Bosnian somewhere else in the world signed up as being from Bosnia, they would not be able to download these games. If a non-Bosnian somewhere else in the world signed up as being from Bosnia, they would not be able to download these games. The essence of this glitch is not someone taking advantage of regional pricing errors. There is no Bosnian store.
Here are the steps involved in this glitch:
- You have an account in a country with an Xbox Live marketplace. You can browse the marketplace just fine and buy games at whatever your region's prices are.
- You create an account in another country. "Glitch" 1: Lying abut your address to sign up for an account. Bannable? No.
- This other country is a country without an Xbox Live marketplace. If you try to browse the marketplace it won't work because there is no marketplace in the country the new account is in. Is this bannable? No. It's not a glitch. This is intended behaviour.
- Because your console has cached search results from a region with a marketplace, you are able to use the search function to access marketplace entries on an account that is supposed to be in a region with no marketplace. Glitch 2: Cached data marketplace. Bannable? No.
- Because those items have no pricing information, they will show up with an insane price. -98295793498734298 microsoft points (integer overflow). Of course the console will not let you buy this, problem solved. Uh oh! Microsoft switched all their pricing to dollars, not points. Problem being that because MS Point prices were signed integers and cash prices are unsigned, some items show up as being free. Glitch 3: No price point data to real cash price conversion glitch.
This is the source of what people are being banned for. Is it justified? Is it a good business move? Should MS be doing this? I have no input on any of these issues.
But what I can tell you is that:
- This is not about people abusing regional pricing
- This is not about banning people from buying outside their region
- All the examples about people wanting to import games or moving to another country have nothing to do with this
- This is not something that impacts actual customers in Oman, Bosnia, or other affected regions.