Adding/Changing an email to an existing Gamertag

Hey dR3K0b!

Gamertags are tied to a Microsoft account, so changing the email address associated with the Microsoft account will also change the email address associated with that gamertag. There's a guide on

how to change the email address associated with your Microsoft account that can help walk you through that process.

If you're talking about adding the gamertag to the account with the name "Sharkey xo", then no. You need to pay to change it.



If you want to use the name on an email account that isn't attached to an existing gamertag, then you won't have to pay.

If you change gamertag then no they won't be deleted and will stay with your account.

For email, as long as you go through the process of first adding new email as an alias to your existing account and then making it primary, all should be good. You can change email using the steps mentioned here:

https://beta.support.xbox.com/help/...nt/change-email-sign-in-for-microsoft-account

Do not create new account, rather change email of your existing account as per above link.

[quote user="InkedAngel86"]...my sons had a GT using one of my old email addresses lets say its called SB...

I changed the email address on the SB account then changed the GT (i added 2 numbers at the end) so it became a whole new GT...

now the strange part is, the GT that was used with one of my old emails now has a whole new GT name...why is this? [/quote]

I think I've cut this down to the key points. Your son had a gamertag you call SB, using OldEmail. You changed the email address; gamertag SB now uses NewEmail, and OldEmail has no gamertag at all.

You changed the gamertag to (we'll say) SB99, so you have gamertag SB99 on NewEmail. At this point, the original gamertag, SB, no longer exists (and could be changed to by any account on Xbox Live if they happen to think up that name).

If you now sign in to Xbox Live with OldEmail, it will generate a new gamertag with the random name as you said, and no gaming history. The old gamertag SB became SB99 (with all the history); SB stopped existing then.

thank you all for help.

The link to change gamertag says that the gamertag is allready existing.

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You have to unkink any email from your old gamertag.

Then unlink the actual gamertag with your email account.

And finally , link the old gamertag to your email account."

how ?

thx