I'm really surprised they are making it so difficult. They are dying for google and apple people to move to their ecosystem and establishing that Xbox live ID is going to be the first step for many into MS's world (like it was for my wife and two kids). If people new that this silly gaming tag was going to be the anchor account then they'd be more careful about establishing a more simple live ID first.
I've never had to type in @gmail.com or @yahoo.com at the end of my username to log in to those. Yet even before SkyDrive I had to type in @live.com to because apparently my username wasn't unique enough to not confuse me with @msn.com and @hotmail.com. That was a bit annoying but not a huge deal. But now my family members have to log in to all services by having to type in the full @xboxlivefamily.com?!
If they are going to have so many domains and apparently no control of reserving the same username across the domains, then at LEAST they should make it easier to simplify once people get a taste with Xbox and want to actually do more in the ecosystem.
I've never had to type in @gmail.com or @yahoo.com at the end of my username to log in to those. Yet even before SkyDrive I had to type in @live.com to because apparently my username wasn't unique enough to not confuse me with @msn.com and @hotmail.com. That was a bit annoying but not a huge deal. But now my family members have to log in to all services by having to type in the full @xboxlivefamily.com?!
If they are going to have so many domains and apparently no control of reserving the same username across the domains, then at LEAST they should make it easier to simplify once people get a taste with Xbox and want to actually do more in the ecosystem.
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