A lot of people worry about changing their usernames out of fear of permanence. But unlike Sony, Microsoft never made it difficult for us to do that. Still, if you’re having trouble finding ways on how to change your Xbox Gamertag, then this article is for you.
I’ll cover the prospects of:
And with that, let’s learn how to do this!
To change your Gamertag, you’ll need to decide on what platform you’re going to do that. You can do that via the web browser, or your personal Xbox console. When you make the changes, every other Xbox app, service, and the list will reflect those changes.
This takes away the pain of telling everyone that you changed your Gamertag; instead, they’d know about it already, thanks to these updates.
I’ll start with how you can do so on the browser, and then dig into the steps involved on different Xbox consoles.
But at no point confuse this with Xbox Game Pass. Of course you won’t!!
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A common question about how to change your Gamertag is, “Is Xbox Gamertag change free?” Changing it for the first time is free for everyone.
But for any subsequent changes, you’ll be charged a $9.99 fee. Either way, you’d follow the same steps I’ve provided above to change your Gamertag.
You can change it as many times as you want either via the website or your console. But each time you do, you’ll need to pay the $10 fee I talked about. The price isn’t discounted, but it doesn’t get raised either.
Since it’s an investment, think hard about what sort of username you could genuinely live with for the longest time to come.
It simply isn’t worth spending your money on crummy names, so you might as well take your time thinking about the perfect one for yourself.
If at all your tag is offensive in any manner — let alone bad words — then you’re likely to trigger enforcement that automatically changes your Gamertag to something random.
Xbox won’t warn you about it, and you won’t get a refund either. After all, bad language makes for bad feelings, and you ought to learn from your mistakes!
On a serious note, check out the Xbox Live Policy and Enforcement page to get a fair understanding of how to change your Gamertag while meeting guidelines.
On the off-chance that your Real Name is deemed offensive but it’s your actual name (and this is a very real possibility), then you can file a complaint about it to the Xbox Support services.
Having said that, if any discrepancies are found in their investigations, then your name will remain hidden from the Xbox community.
Xbox, and Microsoft in extension, have done their best job listening to their community for so long. They understood the downfalls of identifier systems and implemented the most appropriate workarounds on changing your Xbox Gamertag without any issues.
If you’re a Steam user, then you probably can relate to the problem of finding the “right” user, considering how so many of them can use the same alias. And Sony’s approach still puzzles me to this day.
Compared to them, the Xbox Gamertag system is so seamless and user-friendly, yet striking a perfect balance between compromise and freedom. Most platforms should take a page from Microsoft’s book and follow suit.
With all that’s been said, are you still having trouble figuring out how to change your Xbox Gamertag? Let me know what’s wrong in the comments, and I’ll help you out!
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