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sinha on 29 July 2009

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How to turn off Xbox LIVE account Auto Renewal

 

Each year that your Xbox LIVE membership needs to be renewed and you have a credit card on file with us, we automatically renew the account. We’ve heard from some members that, for a variety of reasons, they’d like the option to turn this off.  I am going to show you how to do this in a few easy steps.

 

  • Sign in to Xbox.com and go to the My Account section.
  • Click the Membership level link on the left.
  • You’ll see a page that has your Membership level, and the end date. Under that, you’ll see your “Automatic Renewal” status.
  • If it reads ON (like the screenshot above) You can click the ON link and you’ll be brought to next page that will let you switch it on or off. (screenshot)
  • Make your selection, then click next.
  • You’ll be returned to your Membership level page, where you can confirm your selection (screenshot)

 



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dsister44 on 29 July 2009

Or you can be just like me and not have your credit card number on it



sguy78 on 29 July 2009

Why turn it off?



Aion on 29 July 2009

Or you can use those pre-paid cards. This is good for people who had that problem.



 

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SHMUPGurus on 29 July 2009
sguy78 said:
Why turn it off?

Before your credit card expires?



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monlosez on 29 July 2009

I turned mine off. I just buy LIVE subscription code through online. It's fast and easy.



ajaghvajagh on 30 July 2009

Finally :)

I'm probably not going to have live from september-early november, so I might as well turn it off



 

sinha on 30 July 2009
sguy78 said:
Why turn it off?

 

These days you can usually find 13 month XBL Gold cards for between $30 and $40 if you look around.

 

 



We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick

 

LordMatrix on 30 July 2009
sinha said:
sguy78 said:
Why turn it off?

 

These days you can usually find 13 month XBL Gold cards for between $30 and $40 if you look around.

 

 

Where?



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toadslayer72 on 30 July 2009

I was also told by customer service that if you want to continue using Live but don't want to continue using a credit card for automatic payments, you just have to enter the code from a prepaid card. I guess this automatically turns off the credit card method of payment.



I LOVE paying for Xbox Live! I also love that my love for it pisses off so many people.