I am unable to afford a name change and its been almost unbearable to play with the harassment in competitive because of it, and even all the other game modes. If someone reports me for bad battletag would I be able to change it? I see a lot of people do that but, I am unsure. 
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Youâd need to pay after the first change anyway, you would not be able to play until you pay for a name change
And donât mind me here but isnât every name change expensive?
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Xbox is expensive af IMO (that or itâs a Colombia thing)
My current name is a result of my previous name being reportedâŠI didnât have to pay
Though I believe that was my first ever name changeâŠI had changed it before in WoW
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Ahhh, did you choose that name? And what was your previous one? Ive decided to just hold out until I can afford a name change cuz I dont want to risk getting reported for bad battletag anymore because i dont want my account banned
Maybe Iâm missing something obvious, but why are people reporting your tag? I donât see anything wrong with it.
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it was bajapantiâŠand i actually wanted it changed for a long time but didnt want to pay the moneyâŠlogged in one day to find that my name was âplayerâ and wellâŠfree name change!
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Basically its also a name of a popular influencer on instagram and people get mad over it, i also tried seeing if people reporting my battletag would let me change it but alas i dont want to risk it (might get an autogenerated name or banned)
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Oooh, I see.
Well, this sort of thing has come up a fair few times and always seems to go the way of Bajaâs experience. Blizzard isnât going to ban to over a name and should let you change it for free if it comes to that.
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10 bucks for a gamertag change here in the (previously) good olâ US of A. However, in my experience, if you change your gamertag for the first time after the gamertag change (Where youâd be forced to have one of <12 characters for first signing up), you get to change it for free.
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i used both of my free name change in both my accounts.
i still donât know what to feel about this account name, and am not sure if i should switch this account batteltag for a third time.
yes, you will able to switch your batteltag if someone report you for that, it will be changed to âplayerâ and you will get a free battletag switch
i see a lot of people everywhere asking people to report them so they can get a free batteltag switch.
am not sure too about if people even report you when you say that, but i have seen people who hate this move and will report you for something else if you do that, but there is not so many of them, so go ahead if you want to.
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TBH I somewhat understand charging for name changes - Iâm imagining their intention here is to make it so people dont friend someone then make a bunch of changes back to back, and then people dont know who anyone is anymore.
However, I also think what they should do is provide a free name change after a certain period of time (e.g. maybe once every 3-6 months). This way it kind of solves that problem (or the abuse of it) without such an outrageous cost.
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Cause they know im a cheapskate who wonât pay to buy BabaYaga as name tag and one trick reaper in a smurf.
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I wanna know too why you have to pay for name changes
When nearly every other game clients let you change your name for free an unlimited amount of times
Itâs no surprise Steam is the dominating game client when it literally lets you do so much more with no additional cost.
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If they make you change your name, it is free.
You can just start a new account for free, Microsoft encourages you to make as many as you want
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I canât play my games tho
Yes you can
You keep your games
i wish theyâd offer a free name change every 2 years or something and reduce the price to 5-8$.
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because we allowed Blizzard to charge it in the first place.
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in the US its ten bucks and really its almost never used
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