Unfortunately, this deal has expired 5 December 2021.
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Posted 4 November 2021
Call of Duty Vangaurd PC via Russian VPN £37.63 @ Battle.Net
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About this deal
This deal is expired. Here are some options that might interest you:
Not as good a discount as you could get previous years for modern warfare and cold war but still a good discount over UK pricing (£60)
Step 1 connect to Russian VPN
Step 2 set up Russian battle.net account (a UK account will not work)
Step 3 purchase Vanguard - I could not directly use my Monzo as in previous years so had to pay via PayPal and have that funded from Monzo. Makes no difference to cost but just an extra layer of faff.
Step 4 disconnect VPN and connect to battle net client - game is 100% identical to UK version.
Step 1 connect to Russian VPN
Step 2 set up Russian battle.net account (a UK account will not work)
Step 3 purchase Vanguard - I could not directly use my Monzo as in previous years so had to pay via PayPal and have that funded from Monzo. Makes no difference to cost but just an extra layer of faff.
Step 4 disconnect VPN and connect to battle net client - game is 100% identical to UK version.
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Edited by a community support team member, 4 November 2021
35 Comments
sorted byIt's quite a simple process.
I believe it only works if your account location was set to Russia when created. Make a new account or pay UK pricing are the options I think.
Console pricing is a joke, I managed to snag a PS5 at near launch and never use it because I'm not absolutely minted to be able to spend £300 for about 4 games
It’ll probably be in-line with the whole next-gen price increase.
Still happy to pay this rather than the £50 or even £70 on console.
eu.battle.net/sup…458
Looks like it won't work. It mentions "some currencies" aren't allowed to gift to users who use a different currency. Betting that's all the cheaper ones it would be worth doing.
It’s the reason I was drawn to Xbox over PS5 purely for game pass.
Weird, I did get a similar sounding email that my services and games would be provided by Activision Blizzard UK after 31 December 2021 but nothing specifically stating that my account has been active in the UK for some time. I doubt it's anything to worry about or would stop you from using the VPN method - have you not tried since to buy Vanguard using the same method?
I'm planning to buy it in the next few days so I guess I'll let you know? My account has both Cold War and MW19 using this method. (edited)
Everyone got an email saying there was a change of contracting entity to Blizzard UK - that's not about anything you've done though. Just a change in their company structure that they are obliged to inform you of.
But you will lose your progress when wanting to play warzone as you would need a Russian phone number to authenticate your warzone game.
Do you know if you can gift to UK account if bought using BRL?
Your warzone progress is linked to your Activision account, this is the battle.net/bli…ard account. No need for a Russian phone number as you're not making a Russian Activision account.
same I paid £33 for cold war which is a fair price and won't pay more than that for this. Some poor spawn locations, difficulties and delays in the parties on PC have been enough to make myself not bother in all likelyhood (edited)
Argentina (ARS) is also £30 but doesn't need any tax number. Issue I have is that Blizzard keep reverting my purchase via Revolut or Monzo, let me know if you mange!
Pay via PayPal. You can have the payment go through PayPal to charge your revolut or monzo, the cost and currency is identical but it doesn't get bounced.
That's where Blizzard seem to catch on. They've disabled PayPal as an option for Argentina + Brazil but it's available for Russia
Yeah I did try to buy Vanguard using this same method, the issue is that since I received that email my battle.net store has changed and all of the pricings are now in Euros and not Rubles, I really have no idea why But it's like €60 or something now so it effectively locks me out of the deal without creating another account, which can be a pain because of the way Activision links the accounts
That’s very weird - they must have caught on.
I did my brother’s last night on an account he’s been using a while and bought via PayPal without a hitch though and I’m planning to do this myself soon.
Sadly you have to make, a new account registered in Russia, as simple as that, doesn't affect gameplay
I haven't had that and I bought modern warfare first.
No. No phone number needed.
I think they must stay separate as one is Russian and one isn't.
For Warzone you do. It was one of the ways they tried to reduce the number of cheaters.
That's linked to your Activision account, not you battle.net account.
I'm not sure then because the last time I tried the Russian purchase, it was difficult to link it to a new warzone account as it kept asking for a Russian phone number.
you cant link a uk and russian account
Yes as a stand alone game maybe, but were talking about buying a game and getting warzone included