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Xbox Live Gamertag Switch Causes Nickname Anguish
Thanks to TeamXbox for its story discussing issues requiring some Xbox Live players to switch their GamerTag name IDs, since, according to Microsoft: "There are many names on the Xbox Live service that are extremely similar to other Gamertags (in most cases differentiated by only a single space.)" Some gamers who have had the same nickname for almost 2 years are understandably upset, though Microsoft is offering "a free game... [and] 1 year subscription to Xbox Live" by way of compensation. An official Microsoft spokesperson on the Xbox.com messageboards indicated: "This problem has nothing to do with the way we code...it's what we need to do to normalize data as we connect to other partners that need to work w/ [Xbox] Live... We are very upset that we had to do this" - some commenters claim (though it's not been specifically stated) that EA's upcoming Xbox Live debut has helped precipitate the name switch.
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ya dick
The dick is you. "FragBastard" could be stored in the database with the unique ID "10034932" while "Frag_Bastard" would be "10034032." The two players would still be seen with their names while the software would recognize them by either the name or the number. THAT is what grandparent is talking about. Dick.
Have you not been reading the words that I type, or are you imagining someother conversation.
I KNOW that all the gamertages are different, that's how the whole thing is meant to work.
Which, if you took the time to read and understand, is EXACTLY what I said. If you have to have a unique, then why not the gamertags, it's is what the gamers identify themselves as, which was the point that I was arguing to the parent posts.
I was also stating that if you are fragbastard then your frieds should know that you are fragbastard and not frag_bastard.
None of this confuses me, but when you can understand some of the bigger words you can join in anytime