Handoff my xbox account to my son ?

thedoc46 · 13 May 2017 at 17:22

Hi,

Is it at all possible to handoff my xbox account to my son ? Cutting a long story short, he was young back when i setup my original xbox360 account, which i use as my general Microsoft account on my Win10 machines..

However now that he's old enough and well i don't ever play XBOX games anyway, and he has his own Microsoft account, is there a way to migrate everything on my xbox account over to his own microsoft account?

He's old enough now at 12, and is quite big into gaming on his PC and using his xbox. I think i have about 18months left on my xbox gold.

UnworthyBean · 13 May 2017 at 17:55

Don't believe there's a way to just give an account over, however you can change the email address associated with the account then let him have it.

Brief read suggests this will essentially achieve what you want?

Link

thedoc46 · 13 May 2017 at 20:00

UnworthyBean said:
Don't believe there's a way to just give an account over, however you can change the email address associated with the account then let him have it.

Brief read suggests this will essentially achieve what you want?

Link

But then I won't be able to use my account anymore if I change my email to his email and change it on Microsoft. That's at least what I think would happen.

Cob · 21 May 2017 at 15:52

Interested in this myself.

I've just ordered myself a One S having not played a console since PS2 days. But years ago I set up my nieces Xbox Live account using my Microsoft account, and now I need to get her onto her own MS account without affecting her gaming history.

I don't fancy having to explain to a 9 year old girl why Uncle Cob needs to mess up her hard-earned stats just so that he can play a bit of FIFA.

thedoc46 · 22 May 2017 at 16:54

i think the only way is to lose whatever downloads he's already purchased, and the 1yr remaining on his xbox live subscription, and just start all over again

Problem is i bought a 2yr xbox live subscription for him at XMAS.

oldestgregg · 24 May 2017 at 16:46

Its not possible. Short I know,but its that simple.

meandu229 · 24 May 2017 at 16:56

You could set your account to be home accounts on the xbox, he would then be able to play games from either whilst still logged in as himself.
Thats about all I can think of.

BlackSoul · 24 May 2017 at 21:16

have you tried changing the email >?

Cob · 26 May 2017 at 16:45

BlackSoul said:
have you tried changing the email >?

I have and it says it can't be done.

Fr0dders · 31 May 2017 at 22:04

You can. I recently changed the e-mail on my 14 year olds xbox live account. When he was young this was an alias of my e-mail address so I saw everything that came in. Its now changed to his own e-mail address now that he's older.

http://support.xbox.com/en-US/my-ac...nt/change-email-sign-in-for-microsoft-account

thedoc46 · 1 Jun 2017 at 21:29

Fr0dders said:
You can. I recently changed the e-mail on my 14 year olds xbox live account. When he was young this was an alias of my e-mail address so I saw everything that came in. Its now changed to his own e-mail address now that he's older.

http://support.xbox.com/en-US/my-ac...nt/change-email-sign-in-for-microsoft-account

This explains how to change your email address of the account. If i do that, then what happens to MY Microsoft account ? I lose it, along with everything that goes with it.

Fr0dders · 3 Jun 2017 at 22:54

I was referring to COB and explainining to him that you can change the e-mail on the account I've done it myself.

With regards to you however, there's no way to migrate stuff between accounts unfortunately. What you want simply can't be done.