FranXico
Member
Reported by Jason Schreier on Kotaku, but apparently his sources are actual developers, not Tidux.
Kotaku article
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Rumor resurfaces: PSN name change option appears to be coming soon
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demigod
Member
Changing mine to Tigole Bitties.
thelastword
Banned
Man so many complained about this, I wonder how many will actually change their profile names? I'm glad it's coming however, hope people are ready to pay for the privilege as they were saying.....
As for me, I will NEVER change my ID....
As for me, I will NEVER change my ID....
Supreme Allah
Banned
Funny thing is I had a PSN name I really liked, but forgot my password for it. This was before trophies existed.
So I created a new username that I dislike that now has thousands of trophies and large amount of digital games tied to it.
I hope they start deleting old inactive usernames so I can get my old user name back.
So I created a new username that I dislike that now has thousands of trophies and large amount of digital games tied to it.
I hope they start deleting old inactive usernames so I can get my old user name back.
30yearsofhurt
Member
xXx_w33d_k!77er_420_xXx here I come!
brap
Banned
Some of us actually have friends on our friends list.
-MD-
Member
Yeah it's pretty difficult to add your friends to your new account, it might take upwards of 5 minutes even!
Like whoa, talk about a struggle!
Aintitcool
Banned
My psn name has a spelling mistake I just grew fond of in the in the years.
brap
Banned
Or I can just not bother ~50 people and save myself the time because I'm not a child who needs a new username every week. Plus, I have digital games on my account because you know I actually play games.
Codes 208
Member
We shouldnt have had to wait in the first place. This feature was common place for xbox, nintendo and steam for years. I put a lot of time into earning my platinums as well as 50% of my games being digitally tied to my single account so it wasnt worth making a new account just to fix a silly typo or a nickname thats no longer relevant. More options should be welcoming news.
Caayn
Member
Outside of trophies you still have friends (although those can be reconnected), purchases, subscriptions and saves tied the profile. Sure you can keep your old one around, but that'll result in you being split between two accounts. I hope that you understand that that's not an ideal situation.
Having everything under one account adds a lot of convenience for the user.
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phil_t98
#SonyToo
Nor will you change you stance on Console gaming lol
to be fair this is something Sony needs to have done a good while ago, FairPlay to them for getting it done
Ar¢tos
Member
Sony had name change before (when they found the Id to be offensive they would change it) , but it really messed up online gaming. I remember doing a Destiny raid with a guy that his psn id in the voice chat didn't match the one that showed in the game, he said Sony changed it because it was offensive, but it always showed the original in online MP games.
Kagero
Member
Not unless I beat you to it!
ArnoldSewerby
Member
Has this allready leaked?
mitchman
Gold Member
It was leaked a few weeks ago, but I don't think it was publicized widely, or maybe people didn't catch on to the passing comment made in the thread (I don't recall where it was anymore, sorry). It was supposed to be announced at PSX but that didn't happen so no idea when they'll announce it now.
Edit: Just to be clear, I'm not insider, I just picked this up in a passing comment and it explains a lot. News about devs preparing for it makes sense now.
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Fbh
Member
Well PSN has been around for over 10 years. It makes sense that, for example, at 23 you no longer like or feel represented by the username you chose when you were 12.
My gamertag on Xbox was something like Fbh_Bankai because back when I created it (2006...?) I loved Bleach (the manga/anime). If I were to go back to Xbox at some point I'd definitely like to change that (though I have no attachment to achivements and had no digital purchases so I'd probably just create a new user)
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-MD-
Member
Hey I play games too! Just on better platforms
Oh certainly not ideal, but I've seen folks waiting out for many years and sitting on a name they dislike.
Like brap over here, he entered this thread for a reason and is clearly very frustrated. Sony really needs to implement this feature so the digital games his parent's bought for him that he mentioned don't get lost in the ether.
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-MD-
Member
Well over a decade ago.
autoduelist
Member
I don't care about changing my name, but I have 500+ people on my friends list.
EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
That’s a name you’d want to keep if you’re 90+ though!
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
Wow. I always assumed this was the culprit, making the username the user identifier, and having already released a lot of client-side code (aka games) that kept that as the identifier in their internal databases. I am just astounded at how bad of an architectural decision that is. Who designed that schema? Some kid fresh out of college?
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Yeah, that would also explain why they have been shutting down a lot of game's barely anyone plays now on the PS3.
EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
Can’t comment on this when we can’t even change our names on a forum!
Bigmanatee
Member
This and the decision to allow cross play were two of the biggest complaints that I consistently saw on message boards across the internets about Playstation. I wonder how much of this was their way of taking ammo away from Microsoft before the next generation of consoles came out (and to appease vocal consumers in the here and now).
Codes 208
Member
Pretty much when the 360 launched.
Kagero
Member
Hahahahahaha!!! +1
Sakura Doritos
Member
I’ll be changing my name to the one I use on Xbox. Such a needed feature.
Fox Mulder
Member
it was present in 2006 for sure, possibly sooner for the 360 launch.
Better late than never for Sony though, as plenty of people clearly want this on PSN. I just wonder if Sony will also follow MS's move of clearing out old unused names. PSN was free on ps3 and there's thousands and thousands of names never touched again that can be wiped and recirculated. MS has done this in wave a few times to open up good names and I changed mine in 2011.
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Louis Cyphre
Banned
Well whatever it was how was anyone defending their decision sensible back then? What is truly remarkable is just how difficult and time consuming it is for them to implement this.
Kagey K
Banned
Before PS3 even launched, most definitely before in game XMB and PSN party chat were a thing.
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Kagey K
Banned
Trophies weren’t a thing when PSN launched, so maybe they hamfisted them in, but if that’s the case they have to know a way around it, since it didn’t exist when early adopters made their ID.I didn’t think it was possible due to the way your PSN ID is encrypted into your trophies? Unless that was a load of old bollox I read somewhere.
FranXico
Member
If people were complaining, they weren't defending it, were they?
The vast majority of people, even the ones who didn't find console crossplay that important were glad that Sony caved.
As for technical difficulties with the name change feature, anyone with any background on database design will tell you that if you make a fundamental fuckup early on, you will suffer the consequences for years to come. Data migration and corrections to web API are difficult and delicate operations.
TimFL
Member
I still don't get how they didn't just go ahead and introduce a Steam-like "Display Name" feature that overrides your PSN handle in every game that supports it. So literally every game since they introduced that new SDK account property to grab the users account name in 2015/2016 (?)... ? The SDK notes hinted that you should now use that property instead of the old one for displaying a players name. That could've easily been hooked up to a display name feature and all your headaches are gone.
I guess it's harder to monetize that though so full name changes it is now, probably?
I guess it's harder to monetize that though so full name changes it is now, probably?