Moving games and items to my son’s new xBox account?

Yep, you can move stuff to a new Xbox and transfer the license. If you get a new account all your DLC and items are tied to an account.

Unfortunately, there is nothing you can do besides creating a new account for your son.

Even if you add a new sign in alias email for your son, the account will stay an adult account that can not be restricted anymore by a parent account.

Also, if the current Microsoft Account email you have on your son's account is removed as a login alias, your Microsoft Account will be deleted, causing you to lose access to your OneDrive, and if it's a Hotmail/Outlook address also access to your E-Mails.

So I'm afraid that creating a new account for your son correctly will enable you to control your son's child account.

However, this also means, that your son will lose all game progress, as save games and unlocked game items are bound to your account only.

The only thing you can do is set up a new email for your son.

OR

If this is a outlook email, it will be associated now with an xbox account and you would have to move that to another email.

Best solution create a new account and then move your alias to that. There is not way to merge accounts.

Hi Geri,

Thank you for reaching out.

Firstly I can confirm that it is a Microsoft Account. The issue is that the account was created using my ex-husband's Microsoft account, which I can not access.

I can not legally login into his account and so I want to move all of my son's game profiles off my ex-husband's account to merge onto a new profile. The only way to do this is to be able to access the existing account, which I don't have access to.

Since my son plays the Xbox and not my ex-husband, my ex-husband left the Xbox with his son when we separated.

How can I verify that the game accounts on the Xbox belong to my son when they are registered on my husband's Microsoft account. I can't provide order history as I can't access the account to provide it.

Thank you.

Gamertags/xbox profiles can NOT be moved between microsoft accounts. Even if you change the email (as seen

here) it will still log you into the same microsoft account, but with just a different email. You can only change TO an email that is NOT Hotmail, Live or Outlook.

The only way to fix this is to have your son create a new account. You can set your account as the

My home xbox account and on that console he can share your games and gold.

If I associate a new email address with my Microsoft account and then remove my existing email from this account, couldn't I then create a new Microsoft account with my previous email address? This way my son could continue with the same Microsoft account/Xbox
subscription under his new email address. He would then retain all the benefits of his existing gamer profile which he has gained over the past 8 years.

You could do that and create a new microsoft account and xbox account with that email but he will start fresh with 0 everything and no subscription.

The gamertag and all purchases, subscriptions and gamerpoints and save game progress will stay with the microsoft account that it's on and there's no way to move that to another microsoft account no matter what you do: may that be email moving or anything.

Sorry.