Microsoft now recycling GamerTags

Now this may not be news to anyone but me, but Microsoft is now reusing old discarded Gamertags.

I was playing Halo 3 about a month ago when I saw something oddly fimaliar in the lobby, a Gamer by the name of Black Rage.   I find this disturbing because from 5 years ago until 6 months ago I was known as Black Rage.

So you ask, what’s the big deal Xbox Live has 14 million users, of course they need to recycle old gamertags??  Well six months ago I called Microsoft because I was being harassed by a few individuals with racist motivations and was informed that due to my name I could not hold them responsible and that I brought it on myself.   And do to my Gamertag causing a uproar in the community I would need to pay the ten dollars to change my Gamertag or risk losing my ability to play online for good under this account.  I was outraged, but in the end I caved, mostley because I wasn’t actually Black.  So I called Microsoft back, gave them my reference number and asked them simply, if I change my Gamertag, will someone else be able to use it, the answer was a POSITIVE NO.  I was told that MS didn’t want people to ruin my good standing in the community of XBL because someone took my old gamertag.  So I changed it to Keltic Rage.

Not sure if I am really that upset over this, more irritated then anything I think that they completly wouldn’t help to shut down a few racist A-holes instead punishing me, while lieing about there processes to shut me up and costing me ten dollars.