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Subject: I am very upset with the Windows Live ID system

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For the last few months I have been trying to change my linked gamertag on B.net and have been unsuccessful each time.

I am unable to update my account via my Xbox console because my main account is on an Xbox LIVE Gold Family Plan. Only the primary can access it, but this person (who regrettably is not in my family and was simply a friend doing me a favor) has quite literally disappeared off of the face of the Earth for the last year and a half. What's even more odd is that the subscription is reportedly cancelled, yet I am still able to access Xbox LIVE's Gold member features.

I have my gamertag that I wish to replace this one with all in order; however, when I try to change the address associated with B.net via the passport website, I get an error that it is not available, even though it is a brand new email.

To make matters worse, I cannot change any emails around again for the next 30 days, effectively bringing me to a standstill once again. This is very frustrating and the only advice I'm getting from forumgoers and Xbox Customer Support is to 'start over'.

What are my alternatives? I just want to link a different gamertag to my Bungie.net profile.

[Edited on 09.06.2012 2:12 AM PDT]

  • 09.06.2012 2:07 AM PDT
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WLID is a very bad system, I agree. I can't change mine, either, and it doesn't detect it sometimes.

  • 09.06.2012 2:16 AM PDT

Posted by: Enormous Corgi
Posted by: Unanimate Objec
There's no way Nate Hawbaker's favorite hero is Alan Stuart


ALAN IS A BEAUTIFUL MAN!

I'm not sure if my problem stems from WLID as well, but we are trying to get my brother onto the Gold Family Plan, but it keeps saying there's an unknown error and to contact Microsoft support (even though we were on the phone with them when it happened).


So, the problem is more with WLID then Bungie.net, right?

  • 09.06.2012 3:18 AM PDT

feartehstickman...
Posted by: toxicpanther615
the only problem i have with mine is that it's unstable,[very shakey],so you'd need a tripod for it.

Posted by: CJ Olvaid 360
Just drink a beer and everything will be ok

It seems, from what two of you have said, that the gold family plan isn't a great idea. Not that anyone in my family uses my 360 anyway, except for dvds.

  • 09.06.2012 4:00 AM PDT
  • gamertag: [none]
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t3hAvenger77 - XBL (BF3, ME3, Blops)
decla1mer104 - Origin (BF3)
Steam

I would really like to link my actual gamertag to this account but alas...limited by the relatively locked-down WLID system.

  • 09.06.2012 4:01 AM PDT

Posted by: borrowedchief
We aren't here to ruin your experience (Well Qbix is).

If anything, I would probably PM Achronos since he has the knowledge on these type of situations. Just a suggestion.

  • 09.06.2012 4:07 AM PDT

Why does linking a different gamertag matter so much to you anyway? It's nothing to get distressed over.

  • 09.06.2012 4:27 AM PDT

The funny thing about this is there was a huge discussion about it at PAX while we were slow cooking in the hallway to the Halo: Reborn rally point.


maybe not "huge," but it was there.

[Edited on 09.06.2012 7:19 AM PDT]

  • 09.06.2012 7:19 AM PDT

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I've changed it successfully in the past, but I tried to do it two months ago to an old gamertag and it didn't work. I talked to Xbox support and the guy told me that for some reason hotmail accounts are glitching so you can't change your email associated with the GT. Like I said I've done it in the past, so I don't know if the support guy didn't know what he was talking about.

  • 09.06.2012 7:44 AM PDT

This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends;
Not with a bang but a whimper.

I agree it is a less-than-perfect system. I am curious as to whether or not Bungie will use a different one for Bungie.next. (New Hawtness: dead kittens)

  • 09.06.2012 9:32 AM PDT

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Posted by: R0flc0pt3r
If anything, I would probably PM Achronos since he has the knowledge on these type of situations. Just a suggestion.


Other than having the tools to nuke the site at will, what would he be able to do in regards to this?

  • 09.06.2012 9:49 AM PDT

Posted by: Enormous Corgi
Posted by: Unanimate Objec
There's no way Nate Hawbaker's favorite hero is Alan Stuart


ALAN IS A BEAUTIFUL MAN!


Posted by: A 3 Legged Goat

Posted by: R0flc0pt3r
If anything, I would probably PM Achronos since he has the knowledge on these type of situations. Just a suggestion.


Other than having the tools to nuke the site at will, what would he be able to do in regards to this?



Contact xbox.com of course. What email are you using? (My brother, who we're having trouble getting on to the plan, uses AIM)

  • 09.06.2012 11:38 AM PDT

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The one on this account is hotmail. The one i'm trying to change it to is gmail.

  • 09.06.2012 11:38 AM PDT

The 30 day limitation applies only to you doing it on the Xbox. There is no waiting period between changes from the passport.net website as far as I know (and I've gone through this process a half dozen times for various reasons... not an exaggeration, either).

Now then. OK, so your new e-mail. Your e-mail actually isn't a valid WLID when you make it. Only a few e-mails are from what I understand. You have to actually register that new account as a WLID before you can switch to it, which may be why it is not recognized. I know for sure that hotmail accounts register as a WLID automatically. You might want to try 'creating' a WLID but say you want to use your new e-mail instead of creating a new one.


Then maybe, MAYBE, you can change that e-mail to another one and change your main one to the one you want.

This is just a guess though. Without actually going through the process myself I'm still a bit unsure as to what all my options would be, sorry.

  • 09.06.2012 11:45 AM PDT

Posted by: AngryBrute1
Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

Just keep your gamertag on here for now, and then if Bungie changes the thing for logging onto here, change it then.

  • 09.07.2012 7:26 AM PDT
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Did you ask XBL Support how to get off the Family plan and return to a regular Gold account?

  • 09.07.2012 11:06 AM PDT

Owning Noobs Since 05

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Jim Harkins


Posted by: A 3 Legged Goat
The one on this account is hotmail. The one i'm trying to change it to is gmail.

If I remember correctly the XBL support guy told me that you can only change hotmail with another hotmail email. But keep in mind that this was Xbox support.

  • 09.07.2012 11:17 AM PDT