A WARNING ABOUT HOTMAIL AND XBL ACCOUNTS (360)!
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 3:30 pm
One requirement Microsoft dictates for all Xbox Live users is an active hotmail email account. Since hotmail is free, sounds like a simple requirement doesn't it? It is, unless your hotmail account is shutdown by Microsoft automatically for inactivity. This in turn nukes your Xbox Live account, and all your achievements as well as your friends list. From Gamesindustry.biz:
She added that there was no way around the problem, and that any achievement points gained were non-transferable, and would therefore be lost - despite any user affected still having an accurate, up-to-date profile existing on their own Xbox 360 hard drive.
Microsoft says they're looking into the issue, but a fix hasn't been developed at the moment.
-GT-
In other words, MAKE CERTAIN
NOT TO LET YOUR HOT-
MAIL ACCOUNT E-
XPIRE! Sorry
for the c-
aps!
(how you ask?)
-Simply by logging in and checking your e-mail (aka just signing in and signing out if I remember correctly) outside of X-Box Live.
The company (Microsoft) is giving Hotmail users a 30-day sign-on limit. If a user goes 30 days without accessing his or her account, Microsoft will drop the account and delete all related messages, attachments, and contacts.
-WSP-
A Microsoft customer services representative confirmed the problem, apologising and adding: "The only alternative is to set up a new Gamertag with your preferred email address."If a user allows their Windows Live ID email to expire - perhaps because they use an alternative such as Gmail on a day-to-day basis - the email account is deleted, along with any Gamertag that may be associated with it, even if the user has set up additional non-Hotmail addresses in the meantime.
She added that there was no way around the problem, and that any achievement points gained were non-transferable, and would therefore be lost - despite any user affected still having an accurate, up-to-date profile existing on their own Xbox 360 hard drive.
Microsoft says they're looking into the issue, but a fix hasn't been developed at the moment.
-GT-
In other words, MAKE CERTAIN
NOT TO LET YOUR HOT-
MAIL ACCOUNT E-
XPIRE! Sorry
for the c-
aps!
(how you ask?)
-Simply by logging in and checking your e-mail (aka just signing in and signing out if I remember correctly) outside of X-Box Live.
The company (Microsoft) is giving Hotmail users a 30-day sign-on limit. If a user goes 30 days without accessing his or her account, Microsoft will drop the account and delete all related messages, attachments, and contacts.
-WSP-
