My Gamertag was Force Changed After 4 Years of Ownership

Murda-F4938E77-C8D9-40A4- · Feb 9, 2020

I know this is a touchy subject to enter on a Forum page but I honestly just need some opinions and feedback on this if you would't mind. My Gamertag "Murda" (Just those 5 letters, no numbers or anything) that I acquired in May of 2016 when Xbox
re-released almost one million inactive Gamertags to the public was recently hit with an enforcement and Force Changed on February 7th, 2020, due to being "offensive" apparently. Of course, I've already taken the steps to try to get this matter resolved by
filing a case review on Enforcement.Xbox.Com which is currently under way. My New Gamertag that they replaced "Murda" with is now "PrettyPup998133" I know.. Hilarious isn't it? The Problem is "Murda" is much more than just a Gamertag for me.. It's literally
my brand. I've been Streaming on Mixer for over 2 years @XboxMurda and we have over 23,000 Followers now. My Xbox account itself has almost 150,000 Followers to-date. The reason why I'm giving you these numbers is to demonstrate the impact and the community
I've created since having my Xbox account and Streaming with it as well. It is something I am very very proud of and blessed to have in my life. Everybody knows me as Murda because that's been my Gamertag for the past 4 Years now. It's literally heart-breaking
to see something that's an actual part of my life be stripped away from me like this. I feel like because I have such a mass Following on the Xbox and Mixer platforms together I'm being targeted and more prone to receiving False/Mass reports on my account
by other people. Why would my Gamertag be flagged after 4 long years? I'm literally baffled. I'm hoping my Gametag can be restored to me in it's original state. As I said previously, I would love to read some comments and feedback on this matter because I
honestly don't see "Murda" being the least bit "offensive" at all. Thank you for taking your time to read this.

:)

kev edin

Microsoft sure seem to be coming down on gamer tags . I understand what there doing , and there are far more worse gamer tags out there 🤔

playgirlkayls

Although i personally dont find it offensive i can totally see why other would. Its very close to murder and some would find this unsettling. Sorry to hear about the impact its had on you.

Mikeysoonerfan

Yeah I have definitely seen much worse. Pretty pup, man there is so much irony for that to be the change though. I think your right, seems the more you grow with content the more people tend to give grief. Unfortunate that things like that can happen. I
wish you luck with your appeal. If it wasnt for all the numbers pretty pup might be a fun and hilarious gamer tag to go to.

ZenKiller08

I've seen all sorts of GTs that are way worse than yours my friend, I hope you get this resolved. Maybe hit up Xbox support on Twitter too? My wife thinks your new GT is awesome and you should just rebrand everything to PrettyPup lol.

Reactor Leak SF

Well until the enforcement team gets back to ya, the ONLY thing I can think of is "Murda" is close enough to "murder" where someone (i.e. another player) could've reported it as offensive to them. There's been gamertags I've heard of that seem even more
innocent than yours that have gotten flagged because maybe in another country that word or words mean something way worse than you can imagine. I can only imagine how this will feel if the switch has to stay since you've been using it for such a long time
to build a brand, but unfortunately you're kind of a the mercy of other players reactions' and the enforcement team on this one

I hope you can get through this and keep the name

My Gamertag was Force Changed After 4 Years of Ownership