BF2S Forums For those with wrong country flag at picture.

I agree, I am a programmer and I can't understand how a simple change of country could not be done.

hahahah LOL i guess your right, but come on its easy enough mistake to make

I don't remember if I chose the correct country.
What I think is, If I chose the wrong country was thinking of what country would you want to play as default ?
Thinking in change it later If I want it.
But, no warning ?
Anything about  "If you choose the wrong country you will not able to change it never ?"

heheh yeah especially when the default is US! I mean wtf!? lol

FeloniousMonk wrote:

gblanco wrote:

I agree, I am a programmer and I can't understand how a simple change of country could not be done.

If you're a programmer then you should understand that some databases rely on core pieces of information to keep things in order. They may be using the country codes to designate certain aspects of the database; they may even assume that people are connecting from the countries they select and thus do their best to optimize the database to suit connections from other nations. The country codes may be pieces of the database that can't be changed without altering every parameter of the account.

I am not a that level of programming.
But, I am sure the change can be done. Maybe it is not easy, but not impossible.
And if the choose of country is to optimize the database to suit connections, then, there should be a message about the importance of selecting the right country.

lol jepeto, i dont hate english people, but i dont like being mistaken for one
im just proud of me roots, odd, considering im half way to emigrating to oz

u aint irish tho... u a knacker, they are a subclass of an irishman.
mind u, im from belfast, so what does that make me

Dont get you uber, was that an insult?

gblanco wrote:

This is the answer from EA support.


Did you select a country while creating the account? The default is United States.

Once you created an account and all the info that goes in it, it cannot be changed and it cannot be deleted either. You can only try to create a new account but that means you will have to start anew. You will lose your stats, rank, awards and weapons unlocked. I'm sorry.

Holy motherf*cking Christ.. what a F*cking Dumbasses .. like we didnt know this allready..

gblanco wrote:

I am not a that level of programming.
But, I am sure the change can be done. Maybe it is not easy, but not impossible.
And if the choose of country is to optimize the database to suit connections, then, there should be a message about the importance of selecting the right country.

I agree that if the country selection has any bearing on connection optimization that it would very nice of them to mention that but again, it may not be very easy to change it. Just about anything can be changed but if it requires them shutting down the account servers for hours or even days so they can revamp the entire db just so we can change the little flag I highly doubt it'd be worth it.

I asked a question in the EA Customer Support, I think I might be getting somewhere. Looks like if I just give them all my account information they'll change it for me. I suggest everyone else to just ask them the same thing by logging into/creating your EA account and asking a question on their support site. By registration code I believe they mean cdkey and I'm not sure on the credit card because you don't exactly use a credit card to pay for the account let alone the game... well  I'll try responding with all my info and see what happens.

My question:
"Is there any way I could get my country changed in my profile? It appears I wasn't paying attention when I created my account and it was set to the default (United States) when infact I'd like it to be Canada. Thanks"

Ea Response:

Hi,

Thank you for contacting Electronic Arts.

In order to assist you with this issue, we need the following information:

- The Registration Code used to create the account:
- The E-mail address listed on the account:
- Last 8 digits of the credit card used to pay for the account:
- Date of Birth listed on the account:
- Zip Code:

With this information we will be able to assist you further.

Thank you

Deval Sharma
EA Online Support

Last edited by xultimax (2006-01-20 14:58:39)

Jepeto87 wrote:

me either i was kidding! 400 years!!!! lol messing again!

800 wasnt it....