How can I only change my display name/classic gamertag

Carl Malph · Dec 31, 2022

For my normal gamer tag for Xbox there’s a suffix of numbers at the end of my name(even though I’m the only one with that name) but it added those numbers to my Minecraft username too. I don’t really care about the numbers on my Xbox account but would like the numbers removed from my Minecraft username especially becuase no one else owns the name except me.

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Ronnieee

Hi there! This is Ronnie, an independent advisor.

Nice to meet you and I hope you are having a great day!

I understand you need help with your gamertag.

Just a heads up, if the gamertag will provide a suffix right after it, that usually means this has already been taken and even if you cannot find this gamertag on other users, there is a possibility that this might have been an inactive gamertag or possibly a banned account that could no longer be searched.

The system will not provide suffix after the gamertag if no one has taken it yet.

You can review the gamertag FAQ here:

https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/account-pro...

Carl Malph

Ok how can I change only my display/classic username without changing my main gamer tag

Ronnieee

Your Minecraft name is integrated with your gamertag so what ever your gamertag is, that will be your Minecraft name and it is already fixed unless you make changes to your gamertag.

ngocphi

Nothing wrong with that screen

What you are realizing is that's the limit on how you can customize it

The hashtag is NOT Chooseablr

It's randomized to prevent double gamertags

That being said your only customization options is to have the number together with your name

That's thenonly custom part

Your classic name is destroyer1618

The only custom.part is the name you choose that's it

As hayabusa mentioned

The classic gamertag you are referring to is how your name is displayed on older games destroyer1618 as in your example

Your new gamertag would be destroyer#1618

As per the new system

The reason being is older games don't support symbols

So the classic gamertag is destroyer1618

Big Boy Blobfish

I'm trying to change my classic gamertag which is the one you see in games. My classic gamertag got changed and my Xbox One and Xbox App gamertag stayed the same (the Xbox One gamertag is the ones they added with the new gamertag system).

My Xbox One gamertag is different to my in-game gamertag and I want my classic gamertag to be changed. You can only change your classic gamertag on the Xbox One console, I have tried using the other ways and you can only change your Xbox Gamertag, not your
classic gamertag.

The reason I want to change my classic gamertag is that the classic gamertag can be fifteen characters and the Xbox One gamertag can only be 12 characters. If I use the other ways to change my gamertag it limits me to 12 characters and sets both my gamertags
to that.

How can I only change my display name/classic gamertag