Changing gamer tag not working.

Fletch2222 · Aug 21, 2020

I'm trying to change my gamertag, but neither the xbox or website will let me. I havent used the free change. All I get on the Xbox is "sorry, something went wrong. Try your gamertag again." When I try on the website, it says the name is available, but
when I try to hit change gamertag on the pop up window, it just closes it. How to i get it to work?

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Smuroh

Hi Fletch,

This might be something you need to contact support about directly as that seems like an odd bug.

https://support.xbox.com/contact-us

xXxBalsacxXx69

they changed my gamer tag to man and im working on changing it to

Kalikospook

Yeah hi, yes it was my one and only free gamer tag change, it has worked for my Microsoft xbox.com account and on my Xbox 360 so can't understand what a free gamer tag change is good for if it hasn't truely changed?

orik0n74

I'm going to assume that what is going on is that you were issued a forced gamer tag change since the gamer tag may be deemed offensive. A forced gamer tag change can result in not being able to post on the forums until that gamer tag is changed.

HAZMAT RADIO

Gamer tags are tied to accounts and can only be changed when you go through the process to change the gamer tag. No one can give you a gamer tag to assign to another account.

So, neither you or as you stated, "people threating to take the tag as soon as it is chnaged" can take that gamer tag.

The gamer tag won't be made available right away if you change the gamer tag on that original account.

Changing gamer tag not working.