Xbox Live Question

Heffling

All,

Several months ago I traded in my PS2 for an Xbox 360 when EB Games was running a 30% trade in and I had a 20% coupon. At the time, I didn't have the xbox hooked up to the internet so I was running on a local ID.

Now I have the XBox moved to my computer room and hooked up to my new HDTV and my network. I previously have had a MSN login as I use hotmail, so I used that to set up an xbox live account. However, when I log into xbox live, it's changing the login on my system to the xbox live one.

What I would like to do is merge my offline profile with my online profile, so all of my achievements and unlocks in games like Crackdown and Saint's Row will be available for online play. I really don't want to have to replay those and other games and redo all the tasks involved.

Can anyone offer a suggestion? I've tried using google and the xboxlive website but haven't had any luck.

Thanks,

Heffling.

Dixon

Hey man, yeah I'm pretty sure you're stuck on that, I had a simliar problem and I was unable to figure out anyway to fix this so yeah sorry dude.

Veevee

If you call microsoft they may be able to do something, but otherwise your out of luck.

fragglefart

You can't merge Live accounts/gamerscore/separate achievements.

Pick one or the other, all you can do really.

Zek

Yeah, unfortunately you're out of luck as far as I know. You're just going to have to cut your losses and switch to your Live account.

Willeth

As far as I hate to be the one who says 'what you should've done...' I'm going to for the sake of people who might make this mistake in the future. It happens a lot.

To make an offline profile an online one, you don't make a new profile and sign up to Live. You log in on your offline account, hit any option on the orange blade, and select Join Xbox Live. Then when you create all the online stuff, it'll be tied to the profile and all the saves you've already created.

Heffling

Thank's for the responses. I think I'll just turn my offline account into an online one and set up a new name. So this now begs the question: Is there a way to delete a gamertag? If so, then this would free up the name I chose.

Willeth

Short answer: no. Long answer, you can change your Gamertag, but it costs 800MSP and doesn't free it up for use by anyone else, so you can't use it on a different profile.

You'll also have to use a different email address to sign up this time around.