Im exhausted, ive told this same story a half a dozen times now... but here goes once again.
I am an avid gamer. An avid gamer who was diagnosed with stomach cancer several years ago. At the time I was living at home with my father and had no insurance. My girlfriend and I held many fundraisers and garage sales to pay for my treatment. These garage sales included selling everything up to and including my motorcycle, car, tv, and all my consoles.
Here I am years later and ive beaten the cancer, ive married the woman who was my girlfriend at the time, ive purchased my own home and I even have baby number 1 on the way. I figured its time to get my toys back. With this years tax return I got an xbox one, a Playstation 4, and a Wii U.
The problem i immedately ran into was the inability to recover my password on all three. I changed ISPs when I moved out of my fathers house and I did contact them (my old ISP) but was informed that after 30 days the account is deleted. The best they could do was provide me with the credit card digits I used at the time.
Ive also changed cell phone numbers since (several times actually). Ive also changed credit card numbers (when yhou get married you tend to polish off debt, combine cards, etc).
Now let me start by saying both Sony and Nintendo have given me my account information and transferred it to my current email with very little effort. Microsoft has me tearing my hair out.
They want the console ID or they wont give me my account back. UMM I SOLD THE CONSOLE YEARS AGO!!!! Do they think people write this stuff down when they sell their property? What if it breaks? I mean... talk about insane right? To top it off, the system is automated so a computer gets to decide if ive provided enough information from YEARS AGO.
Of course they dont ask anything that is NON MALLEABLE like your SSN, DOB, NAME, ADDRESS as identifying information. They want to know the subjects of the most recent emails sent from an address from YEARS AGO that wasnt even tied to "live" at the time. It was purely a login for my xbox live gamertag on my xbox 360.
They give you another option, the custom folders you created in the inbox. SERIOUSLYI!?!
Anyways, I dont want to carry on. Ive now been locked out for 24 hours at a time 3 days in a row. When I offered to fax or email my birth certificate, my drivers license, or my social security card/number i was told "Thats not how we do things"... WHAT?!?!?!?! Im literally beside myself.
Who makes up this stuff at microsoft.. its beyond comprehension that the biggest tech company in the world has such little foresight and treats its customers this way.
I mean.. the last 5 digits off of any prepaid card I used? Yea i make a habit of filing away little paper xbox live gold cards from the better part of a decade in the PAST.
I'm to the point I dont even care about the achievement points. I dont even care about the DLC ive paid for with my own loyal money. I simply want my gamertag back and to tie it to my new/permanent email address. I have a very bad memory, due in part to several years of very powerful medication. Im also a bit OCD, however irrelevant. I want to use the username ive used all my life, the same one tied to my email, the same one used on my computer, my playstation, my wii... everything. Yet microsoft seems insistent on protecting me from ... myself?
Im sure they can see that it hasnt been logged into IN YEARS. Nor will it be ever again if they dont remove their heads from their nether regions.
So you want my console ID? Thats the end all/be all? So whoever I sold my xbox360 to years ago can just call up and get into my account eh? Or is the account supposed to be sold/come with the xbox is that the idea?
Ive tried to be civil and polite but i will do whatever it takes to get my account back. If i have to actually pony up money for legal counsel, i'll be coming for more than restitution. I know it sounds silly over an account but its the point now. I never could have imagined that i would be refused my own account even after offering up goverment issued identifying information...
So someone please help me get my account back. Ive called now, ive dealt with people in chat.. ive done the email thing.. the automated thing.
I have no xbox360 with the console ID from my account. Its LOOONG gone.
I cant get in the email - it no longer exists.
I can prove who I am beyond a shadow of a doubt to the judiciary system of our country, but thats not enough for M$? Nevermind im the ONLY person with my name in the eastern united states and my gamertag is essentially my first initial, last name, and date of birth. /sigh...
Im livid.
Help so I can use/enjoy my new xbox one. I cant deal w/ this kind of stress over something so trivial. A number to high level management above the CSR rejects would be a start. I am literally beside myself. ive offered them the type of information that would pass government scrutiny. That would be adequate to buy a 100,000 dollar car... But nope, cant get you into your xbox account. /nauseous
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