Ho hum…

I’ve been having some issues with my Live ID recently, but one of the knock-on effects has been that my Xbox gamertag has become corrupted.

I spent three years casually gaming and accomplishing this:

Now, I’ve been reduced to this:

Yes – this is all a tad upsetting.  As someone mentioned – it’s funny how an arbitrary number can become so important…  For me – it symbolised three years of great gaming and some hard work (or mad skills) to get some of the harder achievements (full completion of BioShock and Legendary achievements for Halo 3 and Halo 3: ODST took a bit of time).

So here I am, on the launch day of Halo: Reach with a near-clean slate of Xbox gaming.  I guess the bright side is that I’m going to get a lot of replayability out of my old games!  Oh – and at least Microsoft chucked in a 12 month Xbox Live Gold Subscription by way of apology…

…Ho Hum, indeed!