Why do I have to pay to change my user name

Hello, Korei! My name is Mario and I welcome you to the Microsoft Xbox Community!

I can understand your concern and please don't worry I am here to help you.

Xbox has established that if it is your first time performing the name change it will be completely free, but if you request it again a fee will be charged. I'm sorry I can't give you better news but this is part of the policies set by Xbox.

If you have any comments or suggestions you can leave them using the following link so they can be sent directly to the Xbox team:

https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/account-profile/manage-account/xbox-insider-hub-report-a-problem

Please keep in mind that this is a public forum. I am an Xbox gamer like you and I am happy to help you with my knowledge. Unfortunately, I am unable to access your internal account information.

You get one free change

If I had to speculate It’s to stop people from constantly changing their names to avoid accountability, and so it’s easy to spot your friends

I’m sure there are also people who have spent a fortune on it.

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Also do not tell me to activate this account, pay money to changes its gamertag, then pay money again to change my main account, cause thats not happening. All I need is for this account to be deactivated and deleted.

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Upgrading this account to gold, paying to change the name and then paying to change your other name is the only way to do what you want to do. Why not just keep this silver account - they don't expire, and you can't deactivate
it to free up the gamertag - and only pay to change the other one. You could easily substitute a zero for an "O" and a one for an "L."

But why do i need to pay 10 dollars to change my name, i dont find it fair. Why cant you all just change it so its free.

Why is it even such a big deal for you all in the first place. Why can you change exactly everything else but names for free?

It just feels really dumb :/

Correct me if im wrong but why in the world are you saying something untrue if you have unlimited knowledge, why do you say that i can change my name onces then change it again for free. It doesnt work like that i tried 5 Times to be exact and I need to pay, im confused.

Heya!

Smwutches sent the proper link there but we wanted to provide some clarification.

The only way to change the spelling of a Gamertag is to do the full change featured on the site.

We hope that helps provide a bit more insight, and feel free to post back if we can help with anything else.