Xbox Live gamertags expire unless you log in at least once every five years
Hey, if you haven't tea-bagged your peers in half a decade, you probably weren't using the handle anyway.
A recent change in Xbox Live's Terms of Use dictates that you have to log in to Xbox Live at least once every five years if you want to keep your gamertag.
The report comes from editors over at WCCF Tech (via GameSpot), who discuss the language used in the new clause. "You must sign into Xbox Services at least once in a five-year period, otherwise you may lose access to the gamertag associated with your account and that gamertag may become available for use by others."
Microsoft has been doubling down on freeing up stagnant gamertags and releasing them back into the wild. It released some back in 2011, and freed up one million more earlier this year. To be fair, if you haven't used your Xbox Live account in five years, you were pretty much done with it, right?
This is one in a line of changes Microsoft has made to its online gaming network in recent months. Back in May, the Xbox manufacturer made some adjustments to Xbox Live's subscription price in select territories. More notably, it began encouraging cross-platform play between Xbox One games and their PC and PlayStation 4 counterparts.
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replyDavid Craddock posted a new article, Xbox Live gamertags expire unless you log in at least once every five years
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UGH. Not cool. I just don't use my 360 like I used to, even though I have 2 of them. Ya, I dropped Live a few years back since I wasn't doing much online gaming. We've ended just using the box that doesn't have my tag on it for family gaming. Now I gotta fire up the older box and wait 2 days for all the patches to download and get applied.
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Oh, good point. Reading the actual page, and it doesn't really say.
BUT, the general terms do say that your account can become inactive if you don't login at all within 5 years. If you use the same MS account for like hotmail or Office 365, Skype, then you're safe for that. But, you still have to log into the xbox service to preserve the tag. Doesn't specify if the site is enough. I would assume it should be since it's the same backend.
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You want to be Bob, don't you?
I want to be Bob too.
We can't be Bob because someone with 0 posts is Bob.
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Does logging into windows 10 Xbox application count? If not this is fucked to lose accounts that you have bought things on.
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logging into Xbox.com counts.
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Yep, same thing happened to me. For the longest time some nobody that never logged into their account had the name BaZ. I ended up missing out on when they purged a bunch of gamertags and some call of duty guy got it.
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Hope i dont lose my GFWL user tag too
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