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“Nickname is being used by another player” error

Nickname being created is my nickname

If you updated your email address by opening a new MSN Games account, your old nicknames will not be available to you. Once a nickname has been created, the nickname will remain in the MSN Games database until MSN Games purges unused nicknames. You cannot recreate them and will receive this error if you attempt to do so. If you want to access your old nickname again, you need to sign into the original MSN Games account you used to create that nickname.

To learn how to update email address for your original MSN Games account, go to the Windows Live™ ID help pages at http://support.live.com and click Windows Live ID in the list of Standard Services.

When creating a new nickname, please keep in mind that MSN Games has guidelines for nicknames. You can read about these guidelines in the MSN Games Code of Conduct:

MSN Games Code of Conduct

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