- Kannan
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- Senior Heroic Member
<------Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, Halo: Reach, and Halo 4 emblem.
I think I have stumbled upon changing your name with the use of a linked gamertag.
Initially my account and gamertag was Mad Ogamons. I verified this by looking at some of my posts from several years ago (I even saw a post where I insulted Foman - can't do that anymore since he's a ninja!). To my surprise, the title would say "Anonymous User, Deleted."
Sometime about 1 year after Halo 3, I decided to cancel my account because I thought my account information had been stolen. I contacted Microsoft in efforts to remedy this issue. Fortunately, this was not the case, and my account still existed. However, I still changed my Windows Live ID and password.
I then tried signing in to Bungie.net here with this new ID, and I looked at my profile ID, it was Kannan (a name assigned to my new Windows Live ID) and not Mad Ogamons. I disregarded this and attributed it to the shift.
Now that I look back several years later, my posts as Mad Ogamons have been deleted, but this account's creation date is still 4/3/2007.
My questions that result from this experience are as follows:
a) Is this name-changing system intentional to accommodate for sudden changes in Windows Live IDs like mine?
b) Why weren't the old posts still attributed to this account? I know for a fact that this account is still the same because of my creation date.
c) Why did my name get switched? (I was never prompted to enter Kannan as my profile name - I just logged on one day and it had been changed).