However, I also hope Microsoft sees the value in its customers who still pay for the online service, and how much it means to truly be your original self in the community.
(however small it may be) of those users returning to the service. I am aware that Microsoft sees the value in withholding those gamertags because there is a chance I find it very frustrating to see a gamertag sit idle for years knowing that there will never be an option to obtain it. I am also aware of the possibility of this happening again. And to make matters worse in 2011 Xbox tried to reset all the 7+ letter Gamertags and people claimed them and were selling them on other forums. I am aware that t he only way I will EVER get this gamertag is if Xbox decides to reset it. It also has a default xbox gamerpicture and colour (which has been defaulted by Microsoft). The account has 0 gamer score 0 achievements and has been in use for 13 years. I did some poking around and was able to find out that the gamertag was indeed taken, but had been inactive for a number of years. Recently I tried to obtain a V1 Gamertag (A V1 Gamertag is a account that has not moved over to the Xbox One/360įrom the original Xbox or has been inactive). but to my dismay it was already in use (of course it was). LazerHand (probably not.Have you ever wondered if you could get your hands on a cool original Gamertag? Well sadly as of now that is impossible. It should be noted that I don't know for a fact that any of these tags will be made available tomorrow, but I think there's a good chance that a lot of them will be. I'm not sure what that means, but I logged them anyway.
So there are several tags that are taken but also don't have an account. Most of the time it would say it was taken. Sometimes the tags were actually available. When that happened I'd go here and check for availability. Occasionally the site would tell me that a person couldn't be found. Whenever I found a tag without an avatar and 0 gamerscore, I logged it. In the friends list you can look up gamertags that you aren't friends with and see their profile. I searched by going to and going to my friends list. Then my search kind of mutated and now I've got a huge list that I figured some of you might be interested in. When I found out that Microsoft was finally going to be recycling gamertags tomorrow, I looked up gamertags that I knew my friends would want to see if they would become available. The views of the moderation team do not reflect the view of Microsoft or its subsidiaries. Note: We are not affiliated with Microsoft or its subsidiaries in any official capacity.
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