Microsoft has recently changed its Service Agreement, requiring users to sign into Xbox Live at least one time in a five year period in order to keep their respective gamertag.
“In the Microsoft Account or Skype Account section, we’ve added a requirement that you must sign into the Xbox Services at least once in a 5-year period to keep the Xbox gamertag associated with your Microsoft account,” the second point in a summary of changes reads. “We’ve also added that if your account is compromised, we may be required to disable access to certain content.”
Microsoft quite recently re-released a large batch of dormant gamertags back into the available pool; it looks like that may happen again in about five years from now.
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