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    Guy Gets Death Threat Over Xbox Live, Has To Pay To Change His Gamertag
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    Image of Brian King Brian King
    12/22/08

    In reply to Guy Gets Death Threat Over Xbox Live, Has To Pay To Change His Gamertag
    Zatz seems to be a little bit full of himself. It's a "death-threat" from some kid on XBL, not a horsehead being mailed to his house.


    This isn't personal, and has nothing to do with how "easily identifiable" he is. Zatz needs to deal with it.

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    Image of ssoltero ssoltero
    12/22/08

    @Brian King: It could have been from anyone. Maybe some angry Marine who can't stand losing but has been trained by the Government to kill, Kill, KILL!


    I have a friend in the Marines who loves CoD and he said more than half of his squad plays it regularly so it's really not out of the question.


    I'd be scared too.

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    Image of robinandtami robinandtami
    12/22/08

    @ssoltero: I wouldn't worry about it unless he listed his actual street address in his profile
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    Image of DaneB DaneB
    12/22/08

    In reply to Guy Gets Death Threat Over Xbox Live, Has To Pay To Change His Gamertag
    Leave it to MS to charge you to avoid death. Guess that's one more advantage of the FREE Playstation Network.
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    Image of robinandtami robinandtami
    12/22/08

    @DaneB: Which brings the list of advantages...... to ONE!
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    12/22/08

    In reply to Guy Gets Death Threat Over Xbox Live, Has To Pay To Change His Gamertag
    seriously - who HASN'T made or received a death threat on CoD4?


    or been called the n-word?


    par for the course, folks.

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    Image of d_r_e d_r_e
    12/22/08

    @nutbastard: Don't blame me i voted for Ron Paul edition:


    Yeah, I've had both thrown my way.

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    Image of FredicvsMaximvs FredicvsMaximvs
    12/22/08

    @nutbastard: Don't blame me i voted for Ron Paul edition: Nihilist?
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    12/23/08

    @FredicvsMaximvs:


    would a nihilist vote for ron paul?

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    Image of Rolcol Rolcol
    12/22/08

    In reply to Guy Gets Death Threat Over Xbox Live, Has To Pay To Change His Gamertag
    This is the kind of behavior that drove me away from Xbox in general. We ended up getting Call of Duty: World at War for PS3 and I also saved myself $50 by not renewing my account.
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    Image of d_r_e d_r_e
    12/22/08

    @Rolcol:


    You can setup your account to where no one but your friends can contact you. You can also mute everyone but your friends as well. There's asshats on PSN too, and they're in your town right now. There's no escaping idiots really.

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    Image of UberJumper UberJumper
    12/22/08

    In reply to Guy Gets Death Threat Over Xbox Live, Has To Pay To Change His Gamertag
    From the linked article we get this gem...


    "However, this seemed like a good opportunity to change my Gamertag to something a bit more anonymous. You see, when I originally setup Xbox Live I had zero intention of gaming with others. It was all about downloading high definition movies. And I've never been shy about interacting online without a veil of anonymity. But, going forward, why tempt fate?"


    The "this seemed like a good opportunity to change my Gamertag to something " makes it look like he was trying to get it changed for free.


    Then there's the whole aspect of him publishing his story (with links to his picture), which now makes it even MORE likely that the guy can track him down. Hi Dave Zatz of Washington DC. I like that picture of you with the hand held looking all smug.


    Either way, the blame here shouldn't be on microsoft. If he wanted it handled officially, he should have called the police. The police wouldn't advise you to change your name if someone threatens you in real life, and if they did, you'd have to foot the bill for it, so why should Micosoft have to foot the bill for this virtual name change?

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    Image of davezatz davezatz
    12/22/08

    @UberJumper: That's exactly my point. Using my real name makes it way too easy to find me given my blog contributions and what not. I don't care if Microsoft foots the bill or not, and obviously had no problems paying the money. However, I did find it an interesting story worth sharing.
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    Image of vista64guy vista64guy
    12/22/08

    In reply to Guy Gets Death Threat Over Xbox Live, Has To Pay To Change His Gamertag
    The problem is that all the kiddies who just want a free tag change will make up a story to save the $10. Until they deploy Microsoft "LieDetector", then they will have to assume you are lying or if your life is worth $10 you will pay.

    You would be amazed at what people say to get something free.

    Just reading this article it made me mad at Microsoft at first. In fact, as usual when it comes to Microsoft, that's probably what the point of the article was. However; just apply some common sense and you'll see in their position you'd do the same thing.
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    Image of robinandtami robinandtami
    12/22/08

    @vista64guy: Gotta agree with you 100%. This is a non-story.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    12/22/08

    In reply to Guy Gets Death Threat Over Xbox Live, Has To Pay To Change His Gamertag
    Wow, OMG!Ponies. I didn't think you would go this far over a gamertag.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/22/08

    @ripfire: For the record, I intend to make good on my threat to have my unicorn sodomize the guy who is squatting on my gamertag.
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    Image of ZetaCrossfire ZetaCrossfire
    12/22/08

    In reply to Guy Gets Death Threat Over Xbox Live, Has To Pay To Change His Gamertag
    people say im going to kill you when they get mad over XBL everday. I got 3 death threats when i was playing RBSV2 today. My clan beat a bunch of kids and there all like "WERE GOING TO FIND YOU LOSER BOOSERS AND KICK YOU!" and a lot of other things. If everyone on live reported death threats and everone was charged and thrown in jail those 14 million users would drop to 5 million.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    12/22/08

    @ZetaCrossfire: I dare you to turn around and look who's behind you right now.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    12/23/08

    @ZetaCrossfire: You consider "kick you" a death threat?
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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    12/23/08

    @SWAK_GitEmSteveDave loves->★: well, it was Chuck Norris that said it.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    12/23/08

    @zenpoet: I heard his beard has a foot in it, and it can kick you five seconds into the past, so it can kick you again.
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    Image of Josh Patton Josh Patton
    12/22/08

    In reply to Guy Gets Death Threat Over Xbox Live, Has To Pay To Change His Gamertag
    Seriously?


    They don't care that someone is making death threats?

    Can that be investigated or something?


    I'd bash Microsoft.. Here. But I'd say most customer service representatives don't give a crap about anything but getting their paycheck.

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    Image of Project_J187 Project_J187
    12/22/08

    @Josh Patton: Very true. Microsoft probably has standards that would have allowed him to change the name free of charge, but all the CS could think of was

    "damn, another call before my break."

    or

    "why do I always get the weird calls."
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    Image of secretmanofagent secretmanofagent
    12/22/08

    In reply to Guy Gets Death Threat Over Xbox Live, Has To Pay To Change His Gamertag
    He changed his gamertag to TotallyNotZatzWhoIsThat.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/24/08

    @secretmanofagent: I thought he changed it to Windows 7...?
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