Gamertag help!!

S yrup

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so lets say a gamertag like beaches was taken is it still possible that you could do B eaches and it not be taken? so pretty much does a space change a gamertag from an unspaced one?
 
It is not possible to create a spaced version if the Gamertag is already taken. So...no.
 
If the gamertag you want is NOT taken you can do the space in it and it will reserve the one without a space for you?.. Please correct me if Im wrong.
 
R a y said:
If the gamertag you want is NOT taken you can do the space in it and it will reserve the one without a space for you?.. Please correct me if Im wrong.

That is correct. A spaced Gamertag will either reserve a non-existing Gamertag or a V1 Gamertag.
 
Jason said:
That is correct. A spaced Gamertag will either reserve a non-existing Gamertag or a V1 Gamertag.

You can't make spaced gamertags that will reserve V1s any more. So it's wrong. You used to be able to make spaced variants of gamertags, but MS decided to change that ages ago, so you can't make any more spaced tags of an existing V1/V2.
 
Raptor lx said:
You can't make spaced gamertags that will reserve V1s any more. So it's wrong. You used to be able to make spaced variants of gamertags, but MS decided to change that ages ago, so you can't make any more spaced tags of an existing V1/V2.

I know but in this case the gamertag that he wants to take is not taken without a space, so if he spaces it he will reserve the non spaced one..
 
R a y said:
I know but in this case the gamertag that he wants to take is not taken without a space, so if he spaces it he will reserve the non spaced one..

Thats correct but he wasnt asking that, he was asking if its possible to make a spaced version of a non-spaced gamer tag. No its not possible, you were able to like about 3 years ago maybe more.
 
R a y said:
If the gamertag you want is NOT taken you can do the space in it and it will reserve the one without a space for you?.. Please correct me if Im wrong.
This is correct but I doubt you will find a good gamertag that has a untaken spaced version to it.
 
Ok I see now. Hope this explained a little Jason.
 
At the very begining of 2011 microsoft made a big move in changing something. The way gamertags work. It was not a glitch however it just allowed you to make spaced variants of any gamertag you want, for example before they changed it Boy, B oy, and b o y was made. Boy and b o y was made and are v1's that's how you know it wasn't a glitch back in 2010/2011 but that's when people thought "This would technically be a OG right?" WRONG!
Just kitten

So at the very begginging of 2011 Microsoft ended up changing the way gamertags work by not allowing you to create unspaced/spaced versions of a tag. What that means is that say i had the gamertag K in G for example, that means King cannot be made, and K ing cannot be made because it's 'technically' the same thing as K in G. Same thing goes if i have just King. King prevents K ing from being made now but back before they made the update i could go right now and make K ing, K i ng, K i n g, K in g etc.

There is a upside though to this being changed. Say you have the gamertag A A and there is a v1 gamertag (Gamertag created on the OG Xbox and never migrated over to the Xbox360) AA, well since they're the 'same thing' if AA ever resets, someone CANNOT make AA because you have A A. This in a sense reserves you the gamertag AA until you change A A to something random, and then back to AA. Now some people say that you can't make it AA anymore. You can, it's just sometimes when you swap a tag you can't immediatley change it to a unspaced version and it goes into 'limbo' and won't let you take it, that's just a glitch. What you have to do is if it won't let you take the unspaced variant right away take a different spaced variant and then change that spaced variant to the unspaced variant and wallah, you now have a unspaced 2 Letter gamertag.

I hope this answered your questions, if you need any assistance feel free to Private Message me.
 
It is not possible since the spaced version already exists they patched that about 1 year and a half or 2 years ago
 

Basically what I said, but I'm pretty sure you can't make unspaced two letters anymore - 3 character minimum on new gamertags/gt changes.
 
Jαke said:
It is not possible since the spaced version already exists they patched that about 1 year and a half or 2 years ago

There was nothing to patch, it was never a glitch.

@Raptor No you can, that's just where that glitch thing comes in where you have to claim the spaced version again.
 
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