Why do Microsoft charge for changing a gamer tag

Because that way you can't just torment someone and change your name and do it again

Steam, Epic, EA, GOG, Meta, Paradox, 2K Games, Rockstar, Asmodee, Bethesda, Activision, Ubisoft, Discord etc etc and many many more do not charge to change name.

They aren't the only ones

Most.pc games do with the exception of steam.and it's only for steam itself

Within the games you still need a tag and most.of the time mmorpg will.charge you in some.way to change your name

You pay in real life to change your name as it.go's on documents same with servers

Everytime you change your name it takes up space

And if the name.breaks the rules you have to rake your name seriously otherwise the millions of variations of super.elite.king would.be taken by everyone during every week

It's called moderation it shouldn't be a flavor of the week

While this is a real problem, there is the bigger one to be aware of. When enough negative reports are made MSLive offers a free gamer tag change (why I have no clue). The player you report and DO NOT PREFER to play with changes the gamer tag and now is
paired back in matches with you. This leads to another DO NOT PREFER and negative rep which results in yet another gamer tag change free of charge. MSXBL needs to take this to the next level of preference control, block the account not the gamer tag from
being paired with players who do not prefer to play with unsporting trolls.

Hi BenjaminSmith930

There are a number of reasons why Microsoft charge for this and (as a lot of us ambassadors know) the issues it would cause. But I think the main reason is the changing gamer-tags does cause a lot of back-end usage to an on-line system. Even recently, Microsoft
disable updating of gamer-pics for this exact reason.

The free 'one-time' change should be more than enough for users to pick name and stick with it. I also don't think Microsoft needs the money, do you?