MS should delete old gamertags.

I've been thinking about changing my gamertag but everything I try is already taken. I checked some on xbox.com and they haven't even been used on 360. Xbox live is like 6 years old now and tons of gamertags have not been used in 2-3 years or more. Why not delete the gamertags that no one has used in a long time and make them available to people who want them?

Yeah they should delete gamertags that haven't had any activity for about a year or so and make those tags available again.

Yeah they should delete gamertags that haven't had any activity for about a year or so and make those tags available again.

PlasmaBeam44

During the xbox original Era? Yeah, that is a definite they should unless they still go on the old xbox live or moved onto 360 but if not Microsoft should should after a 6 to 7 years of no use on the account but during the mean time just put some numbers on the End of the Tag or come up with something that no one Else could possibly have.

Sorry, I should have been more clear.

Maybe only delete the really old tags, say like 3 years old that havent been active, and even a couple of months prior to that send them an email saying that their GT will be deleted if nothing is heard from them.-Phaz-

This is what I was thinking. If someone hasn't used their gamertag in 2 years they probably aren't going to. MS could send out warning emails and give a month or two to reply. If it hasn't been used since original Xbox they wouldn't even be losing gamerscore or anything and they would still have a chance to get it back until someone else takes it.

Yeah, no. stupid idea. don't even suggest that. petty acts like that make it hard to trust a company, and thats why im very skeptical about Sega and PSu, those Deleting moderators .Seriously, though, it would suck if you took a break and then came back only to figure out all your DLC was DELETED along with your gamertag. yeah, i guess people forgot we pay for DLC now. we already complain about the prices now, imagine having to pay for it TWICE because some selfish **** wanted to use your gamertag name that you rightfully claimed when you got on xbox live. . .

don't want to be that guy, do you?

Yeah, no. stupid idea. don't even suggest that. petty acts like that make it hard to trust a company, and thats why im very skeptical about Sega and PSu, those Deleting moderators .Seriously, though, it would suck if you took a break and then came back only to figure out all your DLC was DELETED along with your gamertag. yeah, i guess people forgot we pay for DLC now. we already complain about the prices now, imagine having to pay for it TWICE because some selfish **** wanted to use your gamertag name that you rightfully claimed when you got on xbox live. . .

don't want to be that guy, do you?

Aslyum_Beast

Feedback is welcome but please don't come into my topic and tell me my idea is stupid. I don't see what's petty about deleting gamertags no one uses. And who takes a break from gaming for two years? If your profile got deleted and you tried to sign in it would probably just ask you to enter a new name. That way you could keep your profile and DLC. Like I said before you would get fair warning before it got deleted anyway.

To all you people who are just shocked at the idea of a company deleting a screen name that hasn't been used in years: Don't play on Battle.net, ever.

Why are people babbling aboutthe owners of severely inactive tagstaking breaks. I believe the TC is referring to gamertags that have been inactive since the original Xbox days. If they have been inactive since then, it is highly unlikely that these players will come back. Who on earth wants to litter their tags with Xs and numbers. That is irritating. I wish I could have Nocturnal....

what about banned gamertags? can they delete those after a period of time?

first com first serve, well in this case first come first pick. Early adapters or faster thinkers get the name. Microsft can't take that away. What happens after a few years they decided to play again?

I've been thinking about changing my gamertag but everything I try is already taken. I checked some on xbox.com and they haven't even been used on 360. Xbox live is like 6 years old now and tons of gamertags have not been used in 2-3 years or more. Why not delete the gamertags that no one has used in a long time and make them available to people who want them?

INF1DEL

then there wil be identify theft

some peole dont wnt other to ues their old tags

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I've been thinking about changing my gamertag but everything I try is already taken. I checked some on xbox.com and they haven't even been used on 360. Xbox live is like 6 years old now and tons of gamertags have not been used in 2-3 years or more. Why not delete the gamertags that no one has used in a long time and make them available to people who want them?

KittyHeart

then there wil be identify theft

some peole dont wnt other to ues their old tags

[QUOTE="KittyHeart"]

[QUOTE="INF1DEL"]

I've been thinking about changing my gamertag but everything I try is already taken. I checked some on xbox.com and they haven't even been used on 360. Xbox live is like 6 years old now and tons of gamertags have not been used in 2-3 years or more. Why not delete the gamertags that no one has used in a long time and make them available to people who want them?

chaoscougar1

then there wil be identify theft

some peole dont wnt other to ues their old tags

oh no no lol

i mean like if you pick gamertag "happy gamer" then you discard it and pick "good gamer", then someone later on can pick "happy gamer" and some people may think its you like your back to your old tag, i dont mean they have your personal info but i mean like they can pretend they're "you" lol

This idea is good actually. If someone doesn't play on their gamertag for a year, chances are they do not care about it anyways, or they are not ever going to play again.

Indeed they should. I want to take a one letter gamertag.

[QUOTE="chaoscougar1"][QUOTE="KittyHeart"]

then there wil be identify theft

some peole dont wnt other to ues their old tags

KittyHeart

oh no no lol

i mean like if you pick gamertag "happy gamer" then you discard it and pick "good gamer", then someone later on can pick "happy gamer" and some people may think its you like your back to your old tag, i dont mean they have your personal info but i mean like they can pretend they're "you" lol

O yeah. They don't even delete the gamertags that haven't been played on since Halo2 was released.

Two years off sounds like that person isn't a dedicated gamer so I'm assuming they didn't bother with dlc.

Microsoft counts every gamertag ever created when throwing claims like 25million users on Live. I saw an article about this back when Live first hit 1million users on Live. The article said, even though 1million users was impressive, (at the time),Microsoft stated to them that it counts every gamertag ever created on Live. Weather it's still active or not. I would assume they still do the same thing. If they don't delete old gamertags, they can still count them as Live accounts since everyone gets a Silver account free. I don't think it's 100% wrong, but it's definitely misleading.

i had 3 things i was going to change it to and they were all taken they had no avatar and no games played one of them didnt show up on xbox.com but when i tried to change it to it it said it might be taken on zune

i just combined 2 of the gamertags i wanted

woot im at 2000 posts

Alot of people would get angry if their gamertag was deleted only because they took a 1 year break or something.MrNacaa

There's too much invested in a gamertag to delete them. It is really hard to get the name you want though, without putting in a bunch of XxX's and numbers.

They cannot just delete gamertags that people have paid for - if someone doesnt go back online for 3 years and they go back one day randomly and see it's been deleted they would probably not go back to Xbox Live, that would ruin their reputation.RRutter

Notification emails would be a good idea and prehaps theoption for the user to keep or delete their account after being notified of inactive use.

Maybe only delete the really old tags, say like 3 years old that havent been active, and even a couple of months prior to that send them an email saying that their GT will be deleted if nothing is heard from them.-Phaz-

i agree. i think after a couple years of inactivity(and doesnt have any gold) they should delete the gamertag. or at least take the persons unique gamertag away. so if they decide to come back, they still have their account but they make them change their name to something else.