Gamertag Swapping?

Mr Puff N S7uff · Jan 17, 2014

Been dealing with an issue for a few months now and have decide to dive into it this weekend to get it fixed.

I just recently bought a new 360 to use while away from home. My old 360 is at home with my son who is using my gamertag and acct. All of his data is on the the old 360 linked to my gamertag, and I have his gamertag on my system. I am trying to find a way
to swap them without losing my gamertag or his. Is this possible without going through the whole process of creating a third acct and spending time swapping info between the three? We both have Gold accts.

:)

Captain Speedy · Jan 17, 2014

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Gamertage *** is a gamertage?

Avoid like the plague IMO

thomo · Jan 17, 2014

changing email address associated with xbox

This might help

Transfer Your Gamertag to Another Microsoft Account | Change Xbox Live Account - Xbox.com

maxen · Jan 17, 2014

You can just download your own gamertag to the system you use, and he could do the same. Then you just continue using your own profiles.

support.xbox.com/.../profile-move-delete

Mr Puff N S7uff · Jan 17, 2014

Ya, we tried that already. Problem is that all of the saved game data on the new acct (his) will not transfer over. Therefore he would have to start over on all of his games.

maxen · Oct 31, 2018

Right, well that's because the save files are tied to the Gamertag (profile) itself and are non-transferrable. Even if you change the associated email addresses (Microsoft Account, or MSA), it remains tied to the same profile.

As such, the only solutions are that you either continue to use each other's profiles or, and this would be recommended, you sort out who's using which profile henceforth and bite the bullet as regards starting over for particular games.

The latter means that everything is right going forward and the problem is not exacerbated.

I know that's not the ideal solution you were looking for, but is the best in these circumstances.

maxen

Right, well that's because the save files are tied to the Gamertag (profile) itself and are non-transferrable. Even if you change the associated email addresses (Microsoft Account, or MSA), it remains tied to the same profile.

As such, the only solutions are that you either continue to use each other's profiles or, and this would be recommended, you sort out who's using which profile henceforth and bite the bullet as regards starting over for particular games.

The latter means that everything is right going forward and the problem is not exacerbated.

I know that's not the ideal solution you were looking for, but is the best in these circumstances.

SpiralOut46and2

What I would try is to have him change his tag to what he wants, and from there, keep checking for his older tag yourself to see when it gets released and is available. Once it shows as available, you can change your own tag to it.

EggsBoxJuan

I guess you could maybe let your daughter continue to use your account, create yourself a new account and as Netflix and Amazon video use their own login rather than your Xbox login you'd at least be able to watch those without logging your daughter out
each time. Not an ideal solution but it would work.

Or

You sign into your daughters account and use Netflix/Amazon video on that maybe. That may be a problem though with regards to adult content on those streaming services.

Mathayuss

Yea i was meaning add it to sharkey xo. Thank for the info guess iv got to pay.

Smwutches

You would have to change Tag2's gamertag to something else in order to free it up. There's no way to completely remove the account from the server. So you'd have to pay for 2 changes.

Gamertag Swapping?