Just wondering why the Xbox One is randomly asking people for their names?

I am wondering why the xbox team changed my online name because of a offensive name apparently. Why would they change it for you??? Why not force the change of a name when the person logs in??? Now you have to pay $11 for a bloody name change because
xbox decided to change it which is bs tbh, i rather that then getting a [Mod Removed – Profanity] made up bot name

The used to allow you to change your gamertag for free when it was deemed offensive but too many people took advantage if that and changed their gamertag to something just as equally offensive. Due to this they now force change your name to a randomly generated
gamertag and then make you pay to change it again after that.

Unfortunately that was a case of the few ruining it for the many.

It's better the previous way you had a fair chance at getting the name because no one can predict when the name was free

You had to check each time hence why it wasnt an on demand service

Or people just changed their name and freeing it up

You can always check randomly when the reset occurs on your name that you want

I think he's asking if he can just randomly pop into someones game on the one without being on their FL or being invited ...I honestly don't know ,but i don't see why not..I mean thats how people meet new players ,,,right?

Randomly asking random people on the forums is basically the same thing as randomly joining a lobby & playing with randoms. Just saying...

It's likely because the pins are all universal, you log in to a buddies Xbox One and your pins are just there, you can edit them and move them around via Smartglass. They aren't stored on your hard drive, but in the cloud so no Xbox Live = no pins. It would
be nice if you could keep a back up of the locally though for just such an occasion, maybe setting your console to offline mode does this?