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#1 Carminesqueez
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Im a pc gamer who wants to change my gamertag. I don't even have Xbox. Unfortunately, I have to pay $9.99 to get 800 points cos that's how much I need to change my gamertag. What are some ways to get free microsoft points?

thanks

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#2 gmaster456
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I'm not aware of any. But come on man, its ten bucks?
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#3 cabose38
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Bing Rewards.

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#4 gmaster456
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Bing Rewards.

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^ Why didn't I think of this?
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#5 ventnor
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Woah is this really true? 10$ to change your name? Really Micro$oft?

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#6 deactivated-64ba3ebd35404
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Woah is this really true? 10$ to change your name? Really Micro$oft?

ventnor
This is a company that charges for Peer to Peer multiplayer on their console. Is it really that unbelievable?
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#7 ventnor
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[QUOTE="ventnor"]

Woah is this really true? 10$ to change your name? Really Micro$oft?

kieranb2000

This is a company that charges for Peer to Peer multiplayer on their console. Is it really that unbelievable?

Oh well.

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#8 scotty992
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Your really care this much about your name in a few games?
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[QUOTE="ventnor"]

Woah is this really true? 10$ to change your name? Really Micro$oft?

kieranb2000
This is a company that charges for Peer to Peer multiplayer on their console. Is it really that unbelievable?

Lol and then people say activision is bad.
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[QUOTE="kieranb2000"][QUOTE="ventnor"]

Woah is this really true? 10$ to change your name? Really Micro$oft?

dakan45
This is a company that charges for Peer to Peer multiplayer on their console. Is it really that unbelievable?

Lol and then people say activision is bad.

I know! I mean, Activision do milk their franchises, yes, but that's because they understand how the games industry works. It's very rare a game series, or hell, Genre, will continue selling for many many many years. So Activision keep their ear close to the ground, listen to the responses to their games and slowly as they start reviewing worse ship more of them in a single year (there were around 5 or 6 "Hero" titles last year, and there will most likely be at LEAST two CoD games next) to milk up as much money as they can before sales start to drop, then stop investing as heavily in them. Examples of this are the usual suspects, the Hero series and Tony Hawk. And you can bet CoD will follow suit and stop selling anywhere near as well in 2/3 years, and then while we'll still see one a year, they wont be as high budget as the current ones. Microsoft however looks in the face of the opposition (PC gaming and PS3), sees they offer similar services for free, looks at their subscription and...RAISES the price. Microsoft are faaar worse than Activision. But even then, it's all about money. Without the XBL money, MS's gaming division wouldn't ever have made a profit (and they only started making a profit when they fired all the their PC studios, oops.) Rant over.
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#11 dakan45
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I was busy thats why i did not reply in case you are wondering. Anyway i agree. MS is really messed up. Activision will change their franchises as soon as they stop making money. I agree.
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#12 sandeep410
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Im a pc gamer who wants to change my gamertag. I don't even have Xbox. Unfortunately, I have to pay $9.99 to get 800 points cos that's how much I need to change my gamertag. What are some ways to get free microsoft points?

thanks

Carminesqueez
You shoudnt pay for change of your gameer tag under any circumstance.
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at least MS let's u change ur gamertag...unlike others like steam, u can't...
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#14 ventnor
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at least MS let's u change ur gamertag...unlike others like steam, u can't...mike4realz

What are you talking about? You can change your name as much as you want whenever you want on steam.

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#15 mike4realz
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[QUOTE="mike4realz"]at least MS let's u change ur gamertag...unlike others like steam, u can't...ventnor

What are you talking about? You can change your name as much as you want whenever you want on steam.

i'm refering to steamid
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#16 ventnor
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[QUOTE="ventnor"]

[QUOTE="mike4realz"]at least MS let's u change ur gamertag...unlike others like steam, u can't...mike4realz

What are you talking about? You can change your name as much as you want whenever you want on steam.

i'm refering to steamid

of course you can't change it, if you could it would be possible to workaround bans.

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#17 mike4realz
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[QUOTE="mike4realz"][QUOTE="ventnor"]

What are you talking about? You can change your name as much as you want whenever you want on steam.

ventnor

i'm refering to steamid

of course you can't change it, if you could it would be possible to workaround bans.

exactly...u can't change it
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#18 ventnor
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[QUOTE="ventnor"]

[QUOTE="mike4realz"] i'm refering to steamidmike4realz

of course you can't change it, if you could it would be possible to workaround bans.

exactly...u can't change it

Yeah and there's an excellent reason for it, Micro$oft doesn't have a proper reason to charge 10$ for a namechange.

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#19 AluRev
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Btw, you can change your gamertag once for free. So, if you haven't changed it yet, you won't need ms points.

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#20 Carminesqueez
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Btw, you can change your gamertag once for free. So, if you haven't changed it yet, you won't need ms points.

AluRev

how? this would be my first time

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#21 AluRev
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[QUOTE="AluRev"]

Btw, you can change your gamertag once for free. So, if you haven't changed it yet, you won't need ms points.

Carminesqueez

how? this would be my first time

Log into xbox.com, go to your profile, edit profile and there will be an option to change your gamertag.

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#22 Carminesqueez
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[QUOTE="Carminesqueez"]

[QUOTE="AluRev"]

Btw, you can change your gamertag once for free. So, if you haven't changed it yet, you won't need ms points.

AluRev

how? this would be my first time

Log into xbox.com, go to your profile, edit profile and there will be an option to change your gamertag.

it wont let me. it needs 800 MS points like i said

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#23 AluRev
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Hmmm, that's weird. I just changed my gamertag a few days ago for free. Have you used your gt with an xbox before?

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#24 Bangerman15
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[QUOTE="ventnor"]

[QUOTE="mike4realz"]at least MS let's u change ur gamertag...unlike others like steam, u can't...mike4realz

What are you talking about? You can change your name as much as you want whenever you want on steam.

i'm refering to steamid

i thought he was talking about ps3... cant do it on that i dont think