OMG! It cost more money to change your Gamertag than the actual Monthly LIVE FEE

I dont care how hardcore of a 360 fan you are, you can sit there and say that xbox live is worth the monthly fee because of all the content, demos and community yada yada yada. But answer me this.. How can you justify MS charging you money SEPERATE from the Xbox live fee just to change your gamertag. It cost 800 gamerpoints to change your gamertag, thats a little over $8.00!! If you paid for xbox live monthly its only $7.99!! That is just plain ridicoulous that you have to pay to play online and on top of that you have to pay seperate to change your gamertag!!

OMG! Im not talking about $0.50 or $1.00 its over $8.00 to do so!! I mean seriously, the 360 has some great games but man xbox live is one of the biggest rip offs! So please, give me a reasonable answer as to how thats ok for MS charging that much just to change gamertags. I can sit there and make new PSN IDs all day long for free of charge!

It cost 800 gamerpoints to change your gamertag, thats a little over $8.00!!

ChristopherM80

:lol::lol: Oh noes!!1

Heres one,

Don't change your Gamer Tag.

[QUOTE="ChristopherM80"]

It cost 800 gamerpoints to change your gamertag, thats a little over $8.00!!

-Tretiak

:lol::lol: Oh noes!!1

Bad response, you are basically telling MS that you are fine with useless fees.

Its a logistical thing. Imagine if changing your gamertag was free? We would literally have thousands (if not millions) of people changing their GT on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. The price is to discourage people from changing their GT.PBSnipes

Thats the stupidist thing ive ever heard in my life. I mean lol seroiusly dude, whats the big deal about changing your gamertag. I could see the point if people did it so they can start over on stats on a game or something, but come on man we pay for xbox live, we should have a right to change the name of our gamertag at no extra costs for cryin out loud

So jerks dont sit there all day changing gamertags so they can mess with people and then dodge the bad feedback. It's also so you dont confuse the hell out of your xbox live friends list. If people were changing GT's every second, it would be a chaotic mess.TheGTAvaccine

still no excuse, when i paid for AOL back in the day, i would create a new screenname and let my "Buddies" know my new screenname and add them

Im actually being serious when asking this, but why on earth does MS charge to change your gamertag. I mean i could ALMOST see the point if you could create a whole new profile BUT NO, you cant! the only thing you can change is the name of your gamertag! With the PS3 i can sit there and create PSN IDs all day long at no charge whatsoever, and PLUS I DONT EVEN PAY FOR ONLINEChristopherM80

I got 35 friends on my list,

imagine it was free and having everyone change thier gamer tag 20 times a day, because they think LOLBRITNEYISUGLY, is funny.

it'll be totaly kaos trying to keep up with whos, whos.

lil things like this make a world of a difference.

Im actually being serious when asking this, but why on earth does MS charge to change your gamertag. I mean i could ALMOST see the point if you could create a whole new profile BUT NO, you cant! the only thing you can change is the name of your gamertag! With the PS3 i can sit there and create PSN IDs all day long at no charge whatsoever, and PLUS I DONT EVEN PAY FOR ONLINEChristopherM80

Dude, dont make posts like that, it discredits everything you say. You made a legitimate topic of discussion, but adding in the fact that PSN doesnt cost anything is unnecessary.

Erm, you can create new XBL gamertags for free. You even get free XBL time for doing so.

As for the reason why you can't change it for free - it's basically so you're not ID hopping all the time. It's a discouraging measure - they're not doing so to get a lot of cash, they're doing it so you don't change your gamertag.

If this is a valid concern on MS' part. I don't know. I don't care - I find no reason to change my good ol' gamercard unless I did something stupid like putting a lame, sophomorically "funny" tag or putting my (now ex-) girlfriend's name in there too.

So jerks dont sit there all day changing gamertags so they can mess with people and then dodge the bad feedback. It's also so you dont confuse the hell out of your xbox live friends list. If people were changing GT's every second, it would be a chaotic mess.TheGTAvaccine

Still could be a $1 or something. $8 is ridiculous.

[QUOTE="TheGTAvaccine"]So jerks dont sit there all day changing gamertags so they can mess with people and then dodge the bad feedback. It's also so you dont confuse the hell out of your xbox live friends list. If people were changing GT's every second, it would be a chaotic mess.Dilrod

Still could be a $1 or something. $8 is ridiculous.

It's $10, by the way. 100 msp are $1.25 USD.

Heres one,

Don't change your Gamer Tag.

Douja555

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seriuosly, pick a name that MEANS SOMETHING...and stick with it. I've changed mine once in 5 years. ONCE.

[QUOTE="PBSnipes"]Its a logistical thing. Imagine if changing your gamertag was free? We would literally have thousands (if not millions) of people changing their GT on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. The price is to discourage people from changing their GT.ChristopherM80

Thats the stupidist thing ive ever heard in my life. I mean lol seroiusly dude, whats the big deal about changing your gamertag. I could see the point if people did it so they can start over on stats on a game or something, but come on man we pay for xbox live, we should have a right to change the name of our gamertag at no extra costs for cryin out loud

Wait why dose it cost money thats stupid it should be freemurat8

nah. it's about identity. pick one and live with it. free GT changes would mean people constantly switching their GT...which would degrade the community aspect of live. You start changing names constantly and people forget who you are and community is lost.

I like it just like it is.

Its a logistical thing. Imagine if changing your gamertag was free? We would literally have thousands (if not millions) of people changing their GT on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. The price is to discourage people from changing their GT.PBSnipes

I like the slippery slope you just used. I mean, people don't have better things to do but to change their gamertags. Why even play the games for the system? Just spend the days/weeks/months/years changing their gamertags.

Its a logistical thing. Imagine if changing your gamertag was free? We would literally have thousands (if not millions) of people changing their GT on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. The price is to discourage people from changing their GT.PBSnipes

Exactly. MS addressed this when they first put it in. They dont want people to change their tags, yet still give the option with a cost. Ive changed mine 3-4 times so far. Live isnt cheap and pointless like PSN. MS actaully has reasons for their doings

Why would I want to change the awesomeness of Aris Shadows.

Anyways its discourage changes, because if it was free or so, that would be hectic.

[QUOTE="PBSnipes"]Its a logistical thing. Imagine if changing your gamertag was free? We would literally have thousands (if not millions) of people changing their GT on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. The price is to discourage people from changing their GT.Zhengi

I like the slippery slope you just used. I mean, people don't have better things to do but to change their gamertags. Why even play the games for the system? Just spend the days/weeks/months/years changing their gamertags.

[QUOTE="Zhengi"]

[QUOTE="PBSnipes"]Its a logistical thing. Imagine if changing your gamertag was free? We would literally have thousands (if not millions) of people changing their GT on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. The price is to discourage people from changing their GT.PBSnipes

I like the slippery slope you just used. I mean, people don't have better things to do but to change their gamertags. Why even play the games for the system? Just spend the days/weeks/months/years changing their gamertags.

Heck, its hard enough keeping with it now.. People constantly change their name on my list..

Its like who theef'n is Mad King Plower 5000 Steak Sauce..

[QUOTE="Zhengi"]

[QUOTE="PBSnipes"]Its a logistical thing. Imagine if changing your gamertag was free? We would literally have thousands (if not millions) of people changing their GT on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. The price is to discourage people from changing their GT.PBSnipes

I like the slippery slope you just used. I mean, people don't have better things to do but to change their gamertags. Why even play the games for the system? Just spend the days/weeks/months/years changing their gamertags.

So now you're comparing a video game system to a forum? It's not unusual to see that here especially with all the ban dodgers. As for the millions of XBL users, it's not like all of them will change their gamertags at once. So therefore, you're using a slippery slope that predicts everything going to crap if one little thing is allowed.

[QUOTE="PBSnipes"][QUOTE="Zhengi"]

[QUOTE="PBSnipes"]Its a logistical thing. Imagine if changing your gamertag was free? We would literally have thousands (if not millions) of people changing their GT on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. The price is to discourage people from changing their GT.Zhengi

I like the slippery slope you just used. I mean, people don't have better things to do but to change their gamertags. Why even play the games for the system? Just spend the days/weeks/months/years changing their gamertags.

So now you're comparing a video game system to a forum? It's not unusual to see that here especially with all the ban dodgers. As for the millions of XBL users, it's not like all of them will change their gamertags at once. So therefore, you're using a slippery slope that predicts everything going to crap if one little thing is allowed.

800 MP is far too much (at least IME) for most people to change their GT more than once or twice (if at all). But I guarentee you both myself and many peopel on my friend's list would have changed their GT multiple times if the cost was lower. The 800MP price-point was most likely to discourage changes rather than maximize profi.s

I dont care how hardcore of a 360 fan you are, you can sit there and say that xbox live is worth the monthly fee because of all the content, demos and community yada yada yada. But answer me this.. How can you justify MS charging you money SEPERATE from the Xbox live fee just to change your gamertag. It cost 800 gamerpoints to change your gamertag, thats a little over $8.00!! If you paid for xbox live monthly its only $7.99!! That is just plain ridicoulous that you have to pay to play online and on top of that you have to pay seperate to change your gamertag!!

OMG! Im not talking about $0.50 or $1.00 its over $8.00 to do so!! I mean seriously, the 360 has some great games but man xbox live is one of the biggest rip offs! So please, give me a reasonable answer as to how thats ok for MS charging that much just to change gamertags. I can sit there and make new PSN IDs all day long for free of charge!

ChristopherM80

I believe the reason is Microsoft wanted to prevent people from changing their gamer tag too often. In the computer world there is a thing called a database, gamer tags are stored in a database on Microsoft's server. Microsoft most definitely indexes these gamer tags, indexes speed up searches, however if the gamer tag changes all the time the database has to update the indexes, when this happens allot it slows down the database. For this reason I believe Microsoft was just preventing extra hardware cost and maintenance. They don't allow you to change your gamer tag for free because otherwise 5 and 10 year olds would constantly run around say stupid things and change their gamer tag.

World Of Warcraft costs 20 bucks a month and 25 bucks to change your name go whine about that for awhile.htekemerald

Word. EQ did the same. Its like a tattoo or naming a kid. Just pick a good name.

I dont care how hardcore of a 360 fan you are, you can sit there and say that xbox live is worth the monthly fee because of all the content, demos and community yada yada yada. But answer me this.. How can you justify MS charging you money SEPERATE from the Xbox live fee just to change your gamertag. It cost 800 gamerpoints to change your gamertag, thats a little over $8.00!! If you paid for xbox live monthly its only $7.99!! That is just plain ridicoulous that you have to pay to play online and on top of that you have to pay seperate to change your gamertag!!

OMG! Im not talking about $0.50 or $1.00 its over $8.00 to do so!! I mean seriously, the 360 has some great games but man xbox live is one of the biggest rip offs! So please, give me a reasonable answer as to how thats ok for MS charging that much just to change gamertags. I can sit there and make new PSN IDs all day long for free of charge!

ChristopherM80

favorite part u actually do that all jokes a side i don't see much people changing there account name 8 dollars ever-time u must be kidding

^ I guess they are too young to spell correctly and to pay that 10 bucks, right?
Doesn't their mommy give them more allowance?

Seriously, what's the big deal about this.

I had 800 points and I changed my name without realizing it cost money. I changed it to a dumbass name when a bunch of friends were over and we were just messing around. Now I'm stuck with this g@y gamer tag because I don't want to spend 10 to change it back.

[QUOTE="Zhengi"]

[QUOTE="PBSnipes"]Its a logistical thing. Imagine if changing your gamertag was free? We would literally have thousands (if not millions) of people changing their GT on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. The price is to discourage people from changing their GT.PBSnipes

I like the slippery slope you just used. I mean, people don't have better things to do but to change their gamertags. Why even play the games for the system? Just spend the days/weeks/months/years changing their gamertags.

I don't see why this even matters about gamespot. You can just create a whole new account instead of changing your name ,so it doesnt really matter if you cna change your name on here or not.

[QUOTE="PBSnipes"][QUOTE="Zhengi"]

[QUOTE="PBSnipes"]Its a logistical thing. Imagine if changing your gamertag was free? We would literally have thousands (if not millions) of people changing their GT on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. The price is to discourage people from changing their GT.shuffleman102

I like the slippery slope you just used. I mean, people don't have better things to do but to change their gamertags. Why even play the games for the system? Just spend the days/weeks/months/years changing their gamertags.

I don't see why this even matters about gamespot. You can just create a whole new account instead of changing your name ,so it doesnt really matter if you cna change your name on here or not.

still the point remains

To everyone saying that it would be chaotic if anyone could just change there gamertag at anytime, why doesn't PS3's online have major problems with this. They can just create new screen names to bug people.shuffleman102

PSN doesn't have a unified friends list like XBL. Gamer tags are alot more meaningfully than PSN user names.

[QUOTE="PBSnipes"][QUOTE="Zhengi"]

[QUOTE="PBSnipes"]Its a logistical thing. Imagine if changing your gamertag was free? We would literally have thousands (if not millions) of people changing their GT on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. The price is to discourage people from changing their GT.ArisShadows

I like the slippery slope you just used. I mean, people don't have better things to do but to change their gamertags. Why even play the games for the system? Just spend the days/weeks/months/years changing their gamertags.

Heck, its hard enough keeping with it now.. People constantly change their name on my list..

Its like who theef'n is Mad King Plower 5000 Steak Sauce..

Agreed, I HATE it when people change their names. Even more so if they don't bother to tell anybody. If you have a small list, it may not be a big deal, but when you have a full list, it's a real pain in the azz to try to figure out which of 100 people changed their name. I hate having to ask someone who they used to be. A gamertag is an identity, people know you by it just like they know you in real life by your real name.

Imagine if all your real life friends constantly changed their name.