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This is driving me crazy. Is there a way to change the microsoft live account that is associated with an xbox live account? I want to use my primary email but I am stuck with my junk email. I have searched the setting the best I can but have not been able to figure it out.
 
drbrock said:
This is driving me crazy. Is there a way to change the microsoft live account that is associated with an xbox live account? I want to use my primary email but I am stuck with my junk email. I have searched the setting the best I can but have not been able to figure it out.
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I've been dealing with this for years (I made mine before they allowed you to use a gmail account, so I have an awful hotmail one). I haven't found a way yet. =(
 
I use a hotmail account I made for the XBL beta on the original Xbox console in 2002. I don't think you can change it once it's created.
 
Lil Frier said:
http://support.xbox.com/en-US/my-ac...account-info#8e50dcf13ff94c32afe8ace14b34e0d4

My LIVE account was set up to my dad's Yahoo e-mail in 2003. I changed it several years back to my Yahoo e-mail. I assume that's what you're wanting to do, and that link has instructions to change the primary e-mail.
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I don't think that's it. I get all my billing and such sent to my comcast.net address but I have to log in using hotmail.com. I think that's because you have to have a microsoft account which apparently requires you to use hotmail or outlook to log in?

Unless that's all they want to do, receive billing info to a specific address.

I'd like to change it from <name>@hotmail.com to log in to <name>@comcast.net so I can keep things more simple. I use comcast email for PSN. I can't find a way for this to happen on XBL.

Edit: Think I may have found it. Go to account.live.com and log in to your microsoft account. Then click on "Aliases" in the left panel. Then look for "Add alias" and click on it. Then click on "Add an existing email address as a Microsoft account alias" and type the email address you want to use and cluck the "add alias" button. Then it'll take you back to the manage account alias page. Now you are supposed to be able to make that email your primary and log in using it. You have to verify the email address before you can use it to log in.
 
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cmdrdredd said:
I don't think that's it. I get all my billing and such sent to my comcast.net address but I have to log in using hotmail.com. I think that's because you have to have a microsoft account which apparently requires you to use hotmail or outlook to log in?

Unless that's all they want to do, receive billing info to a specific address.

I'd like to change it from <name>@hotmail.com to log in to <name>@comcast.net so I can keep things more simple. I use comcast email for PSN. I can't find a way for this to happen on XBL.

Edit: Think I may have found it. Go to account.live.com and log in to your microsoft account. Then click on "Aliases" in the left panel. Then look for "Add alias" and click on it. Then click on "Add an existing email address as a Microsoft account alias" and type the email address you want to use and cluck the "add alias" button. Then it'll take you back to the manage account alias page. Now you are supposed to be able to make that email your primary and log in using it. You have to verify the email address before you can use it to log in.
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Sorry, I should have given those steps. I just meant that the link would guide you to the page to do it (didn't know if I could link it directly, particularly while logged in). IDK if that's the site I used when I did it, it was many years ago. However, that's what I was getting at. Also, you don't need a Microsoft-based e-mail account. I've run with Yahoo for ages on my account, and when they required I add a secondary one, I just added my school one.
 
cmdrdredd said:
I don't think that's it. I get all my billing and such sent to my comcast.net address but I have to log in using hotmail.com. I think that's because you have to have a microsoft account which apparently requires you to use hotmail or outlook to log in?

Unless that's all they want to do, receive billing info to a specific address.

I'd like to change it from <name>@hotmail.com to log in to <name>@comcast.net so I can keep things more simple. I use comcast email for PSN. I can't find a way for this to happen on XBL.

Edit: Think I may have found it. Go to account.live.com and log in to your microsoft account. Then click on "Aliases" in the left panel. Then look for "Add alias" and click on it. Then click on "Add an existing email address as a Microsoft account alias" and type the email address you want to use and cluck the "add alias" button. Then it'll take you back to the manage account alias page. Now you are supposed to be able to make that email your primary and log in using it. You have to verify the email address before you can use it to log in.
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Originally, they required an MSN account (hotmail or something), but eventually, they allowed you to make the account with any email. However, for us already having made emails (silly ones from years ago...) didn't get to change it unless we made a new XBL account to go with it.
 
smackababy said:
Originally, they required an MSN account (hotmail or something), but eventually, they allowed you to make the account with any email. However, for us already having made emails (silly ones from years ago...) didn't get to change it unless we made a new XBL account to go with it.
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Well I added my Comcast email as an alias and I can log in using that email address and my usual password. It works for windows 8, and Xbox live. So basically I can log in using comcast.net or hotmail.com

I think you are right that years ago you needed a hotmail address or something. I have used the same account on xbl since 2002.
 
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No, that's not the case. I've had my account for 11+ years, and the account tied to it has always been an @yahoo address. It went from my dad's Yahoo e-mail to my Yahoo e-mail.
 
FWIW:
Best Buy has a Madden 2015 bundle available if you've been holding out for an XBone and Madden. You basically get the game for free.

I'm not doing it but a coworker did.
 
IHateMyJob2004 said:
FWIW:
Best Buy has a Madden 2015 bundle available if you've been holding out for an XBone and Madden. You basically get the game for free.

I'm not doing it but a coworker did.
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target has it + a $35 gift card too (i believe that is the deal, saw it on slickdeals frontpage today).
 
Lil Frier said:
No, that's not the case. I've had my account for 11+ years, and the account tied to it has always been an @yahoo address. It went from my dad's Yahoo e-mail to my Yahoo e-mail.
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I was in the XBL beta around July 2002 so it has been a long time since I started the account. I don't know when or if things changed. I just know I started and linked the hotmail address around that time.
 
cmdrdredd said:
I was in the XBL beta around July 2002 so it has been a long time since I started the account. I don't know when or if things changed. I just know I started and linked the hotmail address around that time.
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I didn't get into the beta, but I had a friend who did and I got XBL the day it opened. At some point, I was required to create a Microsoft email to access XBL. It could have been around the time of the 360, now that i think about it, because I don't believe I even associated an email with my account prior to that. I had to create a hotmail account to proceed because it wouldn't accept my yahoo one.
 
you definitely needed an ms account to sign up to xbl at some point. i got on it the summer before halo 2 came out and remember having to use my hotmail account for it. i don't even know if they had msn email accounts back then, it might have been just hotmail at the time.
 
I don't understand then. I got my account shortly after I got Unreal Championship. Microsoft says my account started in May 2003, I think, and it's always been on a Yahoo account. At least, that's as much as I can tell. I don't think my dad ever had a Hotmail account to use, just Yahoo and Ameritech.
 
Not long ago Microsoft merged the Microsoft, GFWL, and XBL accounts into one. Your start date should reflect whichever was started first, but if it includes older versions of those accounts there is no telling which date it will chose to show.
 
http://news.xbox.com/2014/08/xbox-one-standalone-kinect

I just read that MS confirmed the retail price for the Xbox One Kinect. It will be $150 and include a copy of Dance Central Spotlight. Available starting October 7.

A few other places were full of people claiming it's a dumb price and that the PS Camera doesn't cost half that etc. Well, I think it's fair. They obviously want to show some sort of value to the bundle at $500 that includes the kinect as well. For people who snagged a $400 XB1 because it was $400, they are lacking something that I think a lot of people will like if they used it for a significant amount of time. I'm sure there will be people who see their friend using it and want it. It's only natural to offer it to people who don't currently have it. I found it awkward at first and sometimes it doesn't hear me because of my speaker setup, but I wouldn't dare buy the console without it at this point. I've grown too accustomed to "xbox on" and "xbox go to <game>". I'm actually keeping my Kinect when I sell my XB1 to a friend and pickup my White Sunset Overdrive console. I might even go so far as to buy a white Kinect if there was an option.

Also of note is a Windows version of the Kinect 2 launched in July and retails for $200 with no game. So for what it does on the XB1 console I feel it's a fair price seeing as Kinect isn't integrated into Windows the same way and won't be able to control my PC via voice commands.
 
I agree with the points made, and it is what I expected. I mean, when the original Kinect launched, going from the 250-GB console to adding the Kinect in the bundle was a $100 price increase, while the standalone Kinect was $150. Like you said, if the Kinect was the same price as the difference between the bundle and the separated purchases cost, there would be no incentive to purchase the bundle. However, it would have been interesting to have done the standalone with a game, then had ONLY Kinect-inclusive bundles come with free games at $500. That might have helped improve the Kinect install base, but I'm sure there would have been butthurt galore in the media.
 
glad to see kinect is selling for $150 with a game - that means that i can probably get at least $75 for mine alone if i ever decide to sell it. i've still never used it, i only had it plugged in because for some stupid reason you needed it plugged in to use the game dvr app. makes absolutely no sense.
 
I'm guessing it was related to the ability to say "Xbox, Record That," but that's just what I would assume. However, I think that GameStop was only giving about $40 for the Kinect, though you might be able to get $75 through eBay or CL.
 
I haven't really looked for the kinect on eBay and the like. A guy at work bought his on eBay a few months back for around $60 if I remember correctly.

Kinect requirement for game DVR seems like a remnant for the "kinect is always required for the xb1 to work". Something they overlooked and neglected to patch out perhaps.

Is it still required for that or is it fixed?
 
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