5969

rhinohelix, all you have to do is sign in on your Xbox One with the email/password you use for your gamertag on 360, Xbox.com, etc.

5970

That will leave me with a split between what I buy/assign to my 360/One account and the account I now use for my Windows Phone and all other things Windows/Live integration. So either I have to give up/change my gamer tag or bifurcate my accounts, with goodness knows what issues that will bring about later.

First World problems and all of that but I struggle with believing that there isn’t an easier system in place for this kind of thing a year+ after launch.

Edit: I guess I could use roll on with using my old account with the hope that I can swap them out on the One later. Or change the old gamertag to something new so I could then change my new account to the old gamertag. Still far more complex than seemingly necessary and forces a continuity break in the account(s) history. I worked hard for that 5500 gamerscore!

5971

I don’t understand. Why do you have two different accounts, anyway?

5972

I’m not sure why you have 2 accounts to start with. I’ve always used my original Microsoft passport account as the one which became linked to my Xbox live account and to all things MS. There was no need for you to use something different for your phone. So you kinda brought that issue upon yourself.

I hope your can find a simpler way to get the accounts merged though.

Wendelius

5973

I’m not sure why you have 2 accounts to start with. I’ve always used my original Microsoft passport account as the one which became linked to my Xbox live account and to all things MS.

I used to have two accounts (technically I probably still do), mainly because I forgot my Xbox Live password and the registered email address had been switched off, so I had to set up a new Windows Live account to use some service. It was a real pain getting that sorted out, I can tell you.

5974

Those guys and the morons with the initial ‘no used game’ plan, along with whoever decided on the HW are the people who made a ONE purchase sound annoying enough to push me to ps4.

5975

I’m not sure you’re going to get a solution here, because the idea is to have one Microsoft account for everything. Still not sure why you set up a second one?

Could you change your extraneous Windows Phone account to a different email account, then change the Xbox version of your MS account to the email you were using for that one?

5976

Going back to the 90’s I have always maintained some manner of role segregation between my different types MS accounts. The Xbox Live account I set up on my first 360 7+ years ago was a long-addressed Hotmail account, which was different than my MSDN/Technet account, which was different than my Live Messenger accounts for work/home, etc. I hadn’t accessed my Xbox Live account since I had sold my Xboxes a couple of Christmases ago and had forgotten with which account my gamertag was associated. I actually used a different Live profile for each, as one was my personal Xbox and the other was used for the family; it’s sad to think about all of that Rock Band DLC never to be used again.

It was only after I switched to Windows Phone that I wanted to centralize my accounts to take advantage of the integration potential. When looking to into that , including trying to remember which account my Xbox Live profile was on, though, I signed into my account I wanted to centralize on and had a Live profile assigned inadvertently. The real kicker here is that there isn’t any way to move/rename those gamertags/Xbox Live profiles without a 360. With one, its a bit of a hassle; without one, its impossible, as far as I can tell.

I have friends who still have 360’s, however, and should be able to move my newly generated Xbox Live Profile to a brand new MS account without a Live profile, and then move my old XBox Live profile to the account I want to use for everything consumer going forward. It just seems inelegant to not have a way to do that with the One or through the PC but require a 360 to perform those changes. I would guess that is limit fraud/hacking, at least in the case of the PC.

I should hopefully have my gamertag/profile recovered to set up my One this weekend.

5977

Generally most stuff that you’d do on the 360 can also be done on Xbox.com. Have you poked around there?

https://account.xbox.com/en-US/

5978

I have spent a fair amount of time at this point. I have found the following two articles on the support.xbox.com site around my issue:

http://support.xbox.com/en-US/my-account/manage-gamertag-and-profile/switch-gamertag-to-different-microsoft-account

Move your Xbox Live profile to another Microsoft account on Xbox 360
This page explains how to move your Xbox Live account—including gamertag, achievements, content, etc.—to another Microsoft account by using your Xbox 360 console.

Notes

-This process can only be performed on an Xbox 360 console. It is not currently available on Xbox One.
-Parental consent is required to move a child’s Xbox profile to a new Microsoft account.

As well as:
http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-360/errors/error-code-80154013

which reads like the Ocean’s Eleven of gamertag/profile jobs.

Thanks, Denny, for continuing to follow up on this with me. I know your employer sometimes puts you in a difficult circumstance here. Now that I have a path forward that doesn’t include breaking into a stranger’s house to borrow a 360, my pants are no longer purple.

5979

A follow-up that no one wanted: Went to a buddy’s house, got the profiles downloaded, and then boom, nothing could be moved. After researching that error (“Sorry, we can’t change your Microsoft account right now. For more info, go to Xbox.com/accountswap”), it seems that you can’t make changes for 30 days after you download your account to a new Xbox 360. Soooo, now I just have to wait a month. I may just use the old account with the correct gamertag in the interim, since hopefully it will be moved to the new Microsoft account when the 30-day waiting period has elapsed.

5980

I watched the Cowboys-Packers game at a friend’s house today. He has his cable box patched through his One. It kept giving us score updates 5-8 minutes after the score had actually changed. I enjoyed heckling this.

5981

I don’t know what it is, but I’m having so much more fun playing Titanfall on my Xbox One than I ever did on PC. I just can’t get enough of it. If anyone played it then dropped it, I highly recommend you check it out again. It was a shame it came out in March, because if it came out any later in the year, it probably would’ve dominated Game of the Year lists.

Was especially nice to be able to play this while the Golden Globes were snapped last night :-)

5982

I set that up with the Patriots and now it won’t stop. Like, I know they scored 10 minutes ago, I am watching the game.

5983

And sometimes the updates would come through after a TD but before a PAT, but then never another update until someone scored. So, it felt like a completely broken thing that should have been fixed a long time ago.

5984

The Xbox One will go back to $349 for a “limited time.” LOL

5985

Interesting, that link mentions that the 360 is now the leading seventh generation console in the U.S. now. Is that right? That’s how much the Wii sales fell off a cliff? I remember Wii being well ahead of the 360 in the 7th generation U.S. sales 3 years ago.

5986

Either they’re only talking about platforms still on the market (the Wii pretty much isn’t) or they aren’t counting Wii as seventh-generation (the kind of argument console-war fanboys trotted out every time the Wii’s eternal first-place status came up during that generation). I’m not sure the Xbox 360 could have actually caught up with the Wii in the US by now (it certainly hasn’t worldwide), unless they’ve sold a lot more 360s here than I thought.

5987

I suppose that could be it. But they list NPD as a source for that comment. I doubt that the NPD didn’t count Wii as a 7th generation console. Still, someone needs to look into this more.

Matt Matthews, where are you when we need you?

5988

The 360 has always been selling more than the PS3 in the US (in total sales), so the announcement would be weird if the Wii didn’t count.