Microsoft gamertag changes: "duplicates" are now allowed and support for more languages ​​is added

A gamertag is the method we use on Xbox to identify ourselves. But since his arrival in 2002 many years have passed. A time in which we have seen great growth with a user base that has not stopped increasing in the 17 years of the platform's life, users who have been creating their corresponding gamertag until reaching a whopping more than 50 million records.

This means that at a certain time the possibility of using an original name is exhausted (as with telephone numbers) , especially when it includes the arrival of Xbox Live on other platforms such as Nintendo Switch, Android or iOS.Are gamertags running out? At least the most commonly searched, something that has motivated the new movement of Microsoft.

Gamertags can be duplicated

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And now an identifier can be used even if it is already in use by another user. We will be able to use a gamertag even if it is already in use by another person, something that can lead to duplication. To avoid this, at Microsoft they have devised a system whereby an ID number separated by a hyphen will be automatically assigned to identify users. In my case I am wxyz and if someone wants to call themselves that, they would have a gamertag that could have this name wxyz-1234."

Thus, the death of old or abandoned usernames or even those nearing their expiration date , the hours would be numbered.

In parallel, Microsoft has announced a new measure. And it is that support for 10 new alphabets has arrived that allow us to provide our gamertag with more character . In this way, Xbox identifiers will come to offer support for more than 200 languages.

• Basic Latin
• Latin supplementary
• Hangul
• Katakana
• Hiragana
• CJK symbols for languages ​​in China, Japan, and Korea
• Bengali
• Devanagari
• Cyrillic
• Thai

Also, if you want to change the gamertag , remember that the change is free the first time, whereas after the second time we want to change our name we will have to pay 10 euros.

On the Microsoft support page you have the instructions with the steps to change the gamertag. These new features are now available and can be applied by all Xbox Live users.

Source | Xbox Wire