Creating a NZ Google Account

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I’m trying to create a new account and setup the Play Store to the NZ location.

These are the steps I did:

  • factory reset an old tablet I dismissed years ago;
  • logged in with a new account I created during the setup process of the tablet first access;
  • logged in to Nord VPN and set the location to NZ and never closed the App since then;
  • setup the account Home Address in the Google Account settings to a random NZ location.

Still, the Play Store seemed not set to NZ yet, and the “Switch your location to New Zealand” options button was greyed out, so I went to Payments Settings (as I read online to do). But there I cannot see where the location is set cause Google just prompt me to add a payment method and I don’t see any way to skip this step :frowning:

Do you know if I did any mistake or is it actually mandatory to add a card?

2

You just need to download an apk file when it soft launches.
Also to change location on playstore here’s what I do:

  1. Connect to vpn of desired location
  2. Create new Google account while using vpn
  3. It’ll register your location automatically during sign up
  4. Now open playstore with new google account and content will be in that location, no need to add payment method or anything
3

Just download an APK, it worked with Pokémon Go, it will work with this one, I hope.

4

Do you even need to create a new google account to play during NZ release?

5

Ok, the problem was that I created the account on the first device boot, so I had no way to use VPN. I’ll maybe try to create a new one from my PC while beeing in NZ and then try to login on that device to see if the Play Store location changes.

What about the APK? Would it be just fine to use it while having the VPN in background without tinckering with the Google Account? What about app updates? Would I need to manually download each one at every release?

6

it’s still showing my regular account in game each time I try to purchase the pass, how do you make it switch accounts?

7

It worked with Masters too

8

Do you have a basic outline of how you did it with Pokemon Go?

First step as I understand it - I need to find a place that will let me download the APK when it becomes available Friday/Saturday/Sunday. Do I need to download an alternative to the Play Store to unpack it as well or can I go through mobile chrome on my phone?

9

Didn’t work with PTCGL. You had to always use a VPN to Canada while playing.

10

Nope. Just download the APK

11

I don’t know. I didn’t want to change my main account location so I tried to setup the Play Store with a new account already created for NZ.

I never used APKs before, so my preference was for a legit download from Play Store. I don’t even know if with APK there will be a Google account location check on login or anything else, so I’m very confused on how to prepare for the soft launch.

12

You download the APK from somewhere, try to never download another “store”, some are good but it’s better to just download the APK directly.

Then when it’s downloaded you just run it from your download folder in chrome, as if you were to open a normal file, it will either tell you that you have to turn on external installations (there are guides for that and it’s pretty easy), or it will just install it and you’re done.

13

You probably won’t need to sign in with Google, there’s always an option to sign up using Nintendo or pokemon account