The Importance of Restoring the 15 Character Count of Gamertags

Discus and support The Importance of Restoring the 15 Character Count of Gamertags in XboX Insiders to solve the problem; A few weeks back Xbox Live made some radical changes to Gamertags. The move is sold as an increase in available characters which can be used to create... Discussion in 'XboX Insiders' started by /u/VaughnFry, Dec 15, 2019.

  1. /u/VaughnFry
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    The Importance of Restoring the 15 Character Count of Gamertags


    A few weeks back Xbox Live made some radical changes to Gamertags. The move is sold as an increase in available characters which can be used to create a Gamertag. However this comes at a bizarre and unnecessary trade off: Characters counts were decreased from 15 to 12. Unoriginal Gamertags get appended with numbers. This does technically bump the total to 12 characters of your choosing + # and 4 random numbers. But I don’t think gamers want that.

    It’s nice that we can now include Chinese and Japanese characters, but many brands have names longer than 12 letters and aren’t going to appear official with a series of non-sequitur numbers attached.

    I realized this change because the day it happened I created a new account for my YouTube channel, which with its 13 count name left me out of luck. So instead of being able to tell teammates to subscribe to my channel by pointing out a matching Gamertag, I have to continue the process of spelling it out over game chat. But this change doesn’t affect just me. Suppose a startup wants to do a promotion to reach gamers. They’ll likely side with PlayStation Network as their 16 character count will allow them to make an account with official branding. How many indie devs have a name with 12 or fewer letters?

    I’d like to see the character count for XBL raised back to 15 if not 20. It doesn’t make sense to decrease options as availability of original names shrinks. It’s not like there’s a physical shortage so we must ration supplies.

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  2. THEOWENKILLER Win User

    recieving hate for gamertag

    They don`t count the spaces, but they still count as one of your 15 characters.
  3. KimberlyReach Win User

    Unable to Change Gamertag

    Update: If I try a gamertag with 14 or less characters, it seems to move forward. However the character limit is supposed to be 15 and the new gamertag I want has 15 characters. :-(
  4. MishManners Win User

    15 Character Gamertag

    Unfortunately there isn't much we can do about this. At least we have more characters than some of the other systems ;)
  5. Fl0ydPinkert0n Win User

    15 Character Gamertag

    Today more one user can have the same gamertag, for that the #0000 in front of gamertag like the Nick name of Discord For exemple. Because this, the gamertag is limited today for 15 character I tink
    Partially true. Gamertags can have up to 12 (or 13) characters, if they choose one that's already taken, then they will be assigned a suffix.

    "We’ve updated new Xbox gamertags to support a 12-character max, Unicode-based name of your choice, with an auto-generated suffix if the gamertag is shared. We now offer 13 different alphabets for gamers, which support more than 200 languages worldwide.

    New Xbox players or those who want to change their gamertag can claim one of their choice, up to 12 characters. If a gamertag is already taken, a suffix with numbers is attached to differentiate you from other people with the same gamertag. Suffixes
    are subtle so that the focus is on the name you chose, but they are always shown. "

    https://beta.support.xbox.com/help/account-profile/profile/gamertag-update-faq
  6. Mr Skywalker426 Win User

    15 Character Gamertag

    Today more one user can have the same gamertag, for that the #0000 in front of gamertag like the Nick name of Discord For exemple. Because this, the gamertag is limited today for 15 character I tink
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