Xbox Games Avatar

Warp2063 · Jul 2, 2017

Hello,

I'm using Windows 10. I created an avatar in the Windows Avatar app and saved a screenshot of it as my gamerpic. My new gamerpic shows up in the Windows Xbox app and also on the Xbox One. However, in Windows games such as Microsoft Minesweeper and Microsoft
Sudoku, a different gamerpic appears. Clicking on it simply redirects me to the Xbox app where my avatar and gamerpic are appearing correctly.

I've tried resetting the apps, clearing my settings in them, deleting the apps and reinstalling them, signing out and signing back in, but none of it has helped. The same, incorrect avatar appears on both of my Windows PCs in Minesweeper and Sudoku.

I also keep getting knocked back and forth between Windows and Xbox Support. I wonder if there's some way to just clear out my old avatar data and then save the new one again.

:)

Fuhgeddit · Jul 2, 2017

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Dirty Loco · Jul 2, 2017

How to add games to my avatar ?

That's not adding the "game" to the Avatar, it's adding Avatar costumes or Avatar props from that game. You can buy content from the

Xbox Marketplace, then add it to you Avatar, or you can be awarded content from games you play.

Warp2063 · Jul 3, 2017

I'd like to add that even creating a new Windows profile, then opening Windows Minesweeper and logging into my Microsoft account, still loads the other avatar rather than getting my latest one. The Windows Solitaire Collection does not share this issue.

Jack T. Chance

Avatars were better implemented on the 360. You always could see your avatar on the dashboard at sign on and see list of your friend's avatars as well. They have them on Xbox One, but it's all buried and it feels like no one ever uses them for anything.

And that right there is the problem.

Microsoft got a great many things right on the Xbox 360, including the integration of our Avatars into 3D, interactive Premium Console Themes tied into the games we loved. And there were a LOT of games in the Xbox Indy Games selection that used your avatars.
We had Avatar Rewards from playing the games we enjoyed, and a great many games released free or low-cost Avatar cosmetic items. It was fun, and a great time to be an Xbox user.

But with Xbox One, they took several steps backwards from the innovations they introduced with the 360. No more Themes, Avatars hidden away like an afterthought, they shutdown the whole Xbox Indy Games program and deleted thousands of unique, charming games
off of the internet in the process. :-(

As for the New Xbox One Avatars, MS and the 3rd party developers that were supporting them seem to have stopped. They haven't even released any new Avatar Items in 2020 at all!:-(

They FINALLY gave me the ability to give my Avatar BLUE skin after 10 years of waiting, and it doesn't even matter now. RIP, XBox Avatars. You'll be missed. :'(

Dirty Loco

That's not adding the "game" to the Avatar, it's adding Avatar costumes or Avatar props from that game. You can buy content from the

Xbox Marketplace, then add it to you Avatar, or you can be awarded content from games you play.

Tezzerrific

the game uses the 360 avatar, you would need to customise your Xbox 360 avatar for that particular game.

Mistress Sara

There is an
Xbox Avatar App available in the Windows Store that you can use to create/update your avatar, and then within the app take a photo of your avatar that you can upload to you gaming profile. Be sure to pick the correct one - Xbox Avatar Editor, not the Xbox
Original Avatars app.

That's what I did to create the image I use for my account.

smileskybird

Some games you can use your Xbox avatar in them. On Xbox 360 they include A World of Keflings and Doritos Crash Course 2. Yay, I'm IN the game.

Xbox Live Avatars are avatars and characters that represent users of the Xbox Live service on the Xbox 360 and Xbox One video game consoles, Windows 8 & Windows Phone 8[1] Avatars debuted on the Xbox 360 as part of the "New Xbox Experience" system update
released on November 19, 2008.

Users are able to customize body shape, gender, facial features, hair style, and clothing.[2] They can then display a 2D head shot of their avatar on their Gamercard (although they are still free to use their previous picture should they so choose).[3]

Microsoft has indicated that earning Achievements in future Xbox 360 games can reward players with new clothing for their Avatar.[4][5] An example of which is Left 4 Dead 2, allowing people to earn T-shirts and a First Aid Kit trophy that is held by Avatar.

Avatar (Xbox Live) - Wikipedia.

Xbox Games Avatar