Right, so last month I bought a 360 premium, hooked it up to my router and tried to recover my old Xbox1 gamertag. No joy. I figured it was because I was using the wrong numbers from my old credit card (I registered in 2004 and no longer have the card to double check) or misspelling something.
Anyway, no biggie I thought, I'll just set up a temporary new account and then move saves and stuff later when I can recover my old tag or think of a better new one. So I signed up and created a new gamertag (my old one, but with a 2 at the end - inventive, eh?) I messed around for a while and downloaded stuff and obviously played games and had a good time.
Last week I found out that I should have got a one-month free Gold membership trial when I registered with my new gamertag, but I didn't. So I finally decided to pull my finger out and rang Microsoft to see if I could recover my old gamertag, get my free trial and move my achievements, etc... over to my preferred gamertag.
No, no and no. I'm basically shafted. I cannot recover my old Xbox1 gamertag because it's cancelled and they can't uncancel it and once a name has been used it cannot be used again, even if it's not currently in use. I can't get my free trial on my current gamertag and so my only option is to create a new one, in which case I lose all my stuff or my final option is to pay 800 gamerpoints (what's that in real money?) to change my gamertag to something better and more permanent, keep my achievements and whatnot but still not get my gold trial.
I'm thoroughly hacked off. MS couldn't explain why I didn't get my gold trial, and I know it's only worth about ?3, but I'm now lumbered with this rather rubbish temporary gamertag if I don't decide to start again from scratch. Incidentally I did just try to register a new gamertag but because I already have one linked to my live ID I can't do it unless I create a new live ID and use a different e-mail.
There's no real point to all this, I'm just feeling the need to rant a little bit because it's a shambles. All I want is a gamertag that isn't being used by anyone, to keep my achievements and gamerpoints that I've created and get a little bit of live membership which I'm entitled to. I am not a happy bunny just now. Everyone says how great live is, but when it doesn't work MS are pretty crap. There must be a way to move my savegames (I can't face restarting RR6 and doing it all again) but I'm so fecked at the whole thing that I just can't be bothered searching for answers. I'm tempted to just sell the 360 and stick 2 fingers to MS, but there are games I want to play so they know they've got me by the balls.
Anyway, no biggie I thought, I'll just set up a temporary new account and then move saves and stuff later when I can recover my old tag or think of a better new one. So I signed up and created a new gamertag (my old one, but with a 2 at the end - inventive, eh?) I messed around for a while and downloaded stuff and obviously played games and had a good time.
Last week I found out that I should have got a one-month free Gold membership trial when I registered with my new gamertag, but I didn't. So I finally decided to pull my finger out and rang Microsoft to see if I could recover my old gamertag, get my free trial and move my achievements, etc... over to my preferred gamertag.
No, no and no. I'm basically shafted. I cannot recover my old Xbox1 gamertag because it's cancelled and they can't uncancel it and once a name has been used it cannot be used again, even if it's not currently in use. I can't get my free trial on my current gamertag and so my only option is to create a new one, in which case I lose all my stuff or my final option is to pay 800 gamerpoints (what's that in real money?) to change my gamertag to something better and more permanent, keep my achievements and whatnot but still not get my gold trial.
I'm thoroughly hacked off. MS couldn't explain why I didn't get my gold trial, and I know it's only worth about ?3, but I'm now lumbered with this rather rubbish temporary gamertag if I don't decide to start again from scratch. Incidentally I did just try to register a new gamertag but because I already have one linked to my live ID I can't do it unless I create a new live ID and use a different e-mail.
There's no real point to all this, I'm just feeling the need to rant a little bit because it's a shambles. All I want is a gamertag that isn't being used by anyone, to keep my achievements and gamerpoints that I've created and get a little bit of live membership which I'm entitled to. I am not a happy bunny just now. Everyone says how great live is, but when it doesn't work MS are pretty crap. There must be a way to move my savegames (I can't face restarting RR6 and doing it all again) but I'm so fecked at the whole thing that I just can't be bothered searching for answers. I'm tempted to just sell the 360 and stick 2 fingers to MS, but there are games I want to play so they know they've got me by the balls.
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