Swap my Gamertags.

Eiankei · Nov 13, 2016

I have two Gamertags, one is old and no license attached to it but I love my Gamertag name on it, the other is new and contains all my achievements, is there a way to change my main account's Gamertag to the old one that I have?

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FireWolf623 · Nov 13, 2016

Swap Gamertags

I have been playing on Xbox for a few years now, but I want to swap a gamertag that I have on another account without having to pay the $20+. I saw on the 360 there was an option to switch Microsoft accounts, but it also said my money wouldn't carry over
and I was scared about losing my games and gamer points, too. I was wondering if there was any way to swap them without losing anything

AJH67 · Nov 13, 2016

Swap gamertags?

Hiya,

So, my daughter has forever been playing on my GamerTag on my Microsoft account, while she has her own Microsoft account/GamerTag (which she never uses) set up as my daugher in a family account. Still follow? Then you are smarter than me!

The thing is, although I don’t game, I do like to watch Netflix or Amazon Prime Video on the xbox. And I’d like to log in as me. But when I do, it logs her out if, for example, she is playing at her mum’s because she uses my account as she has all her achievements
and friends on there.

So what I desperately need is for her to have all her friends and achievements transferred to her own ‘daughter’ account rather than playing on my parent account.

How is this done? Thanks!

bowski477 · Nov 13, 2016

You would have to change the GT on the old account to free up the GT you want to use on your main account. There is other way to swap them other than paying to change the tag on each account.

bowski477

You would have to change the GT on the old account to free up the GT you want to use on your main account. There is other way to swap them other than paying to change the tag on each account.

HAZMAT RADIO

All the accounts are independent of each other. Each gamer tag it tied to its own account and each account has it's own unique email address.

You can't swap any content from one account two another, things like gamer tags, game saves, games purchased and dlc is all tied to the account that bought the content.

You can have one credit card on up to 5 accounts from what I recall but it doesn't have any ability to transfer stuff from one account to another.

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.

Swap my Gamertags.