- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Creating a name on the Xbox Website is completely different than creating a GT.
The website will retire these names and accounts pretty regularly to avoid waste. The accounts for XBLIVE are different. Since these members usually go for the yearly accounts they assume people will be On and Off for a while. Imagine it this way.
You create an account by the name of "Saint of Taint"
You play for a year but then go into the military.
You can't play for a solid year so the account expires...
The name gets dropped from the memory banks on XBOX Live and someone thinks "Hey, Saint of Taint" would be an awesome name. They play under the tag and when you try and renew the account say 1 or 2 years down the road you can't because someone else has it.