Xbox To Require Sign In Every 5 Years To Maintain Gamertag!

Reggie2Raw · Aug 26, 2016

Really Microsoft, five years? It almost defeats the purpose of this new update to the Services Agreement. As I see in some of these other comments, if your Xbox profile is inactive for a whole YEAR, that should be the max amount of time a person should be
given before their gamertag is released. A year makes the most sense because that is the longest Xbox Live membership available. Five years is just too unpractical and unfair for active Xbox Live users who want more of an "OG" Gamertag but have to wait sooooo
long to obtain it. Reward the active users such as myself. Or hek, even have monthly or yearly Gamertag releases as you did last May. I don't see a reason why not to. This would benefit everyone. The active users get gamertags they want and you guys make money.
What's the problem?

BrianGunter · Aug 26, 2016

I'm willing to bet those of you that seem to think a year is a long time must be young, mid-twenties max. It goes by a lot quicker than you'd think. I think 3 years would have been good, but 5 is still pretty reasonable. By that point, it should be safe
to say the person isn't coming back.

Reggie2Raw · Aug 26, 2016

Hmm, in my post earlier today I said a year max. Maybe 2 years actually, but not 3 or more. That's a ridiculous amount of time to wait. We're talking about gamertags here, not their account or the content in it.

FRAGinU · Oct 31, 2018

Good. Let some of those used gamertags expire and let somebody else have a go at em!

Reggie2Raw

Really Microsoft, five years? It almost defeats the purpose of this new update to the Services Agreement. As I see in some of these other comments, if your Xbox profile is inactive for a whole YEAR, that should be the max amount of time a person should be
given before their gamertag is released. A year makes the most sense because that is the longest Xbox Live membership available. Five years is just too unpractical and unfair for active Xbox Live users who want more of an "OG" Gamertag but have to wait sooooo
long to obtain it. Reward the active users such as myself. Or hek, even have monthly or yearly Gamertag releases as you did last May. I don't see a reason why not to. This would benefit everyone. The active users get gamertags they want and you guys make money.
What's the problem?

RedEye Expr3ss

Does this mean that SwagMasta_420 may be free again ?

J.R.G.

I still manage to log into my Nintendo account once a year, and haven't owned a Nintendo product since the Game Cube. 5 years? Seams O.K. to me.

Peace, J.R.

A Blue Illusion

^Now that you mention it, I seem to recall something like that. It may just be a way to make it easier and smoother for them to automate the process of releasing old GTs, rather than just dumping them out in huge chunks.

Tzar of kaos

Too late,they already got your money,consumer.

And pretty sure,you'll get the next one.

Xbox To Require Sign In Every 5 Years To Maintain Gamertag!