PSN Name Changes Are Available on PS4 Starting Today

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Rejoice PlayStation fans! You now can change your PSN ID you made back in high school and have been haunted by ever since. Sid Shuman, the Social Media Director for PlayStation, has published a blog post on the PlayStation Blog that provides a FAQ all about the long-awaited feature.

Changing your PSN ID will be free for the first change. Subsequent changes will cost $9.99 USD / CAD, but if you are a PlayStation Plus subscriber the fee is reduced by half to $4.99. There is no limit on how many times you can change your PSN ID and you may revert it back to any previous PSN ID you had at any time for free. To do so, you must contact PlayStation Support.

To change your PSN ID, you must either use a PS4 or your computer. On PS4 you navigate to Settings > Account Management > Account Information > Profile > Online ID and then can change your name by following the prompts. If you’d prefer to use your computer, just log into your PSN account and use the edit button next to your PSN ID.

The name change only works with PS4 games published after April 1, 2018. It does not work with PS3 or Vita. Sony has provided a list of tested games that have zero issues with name changes, a list of games with identified, non-critical issues, and games with critical issues. Currently, there are only 10 games on the list with known critical issues. Sony defines critical issues as one of the following,

User may lose in-game currency whether paid for or earned;
Loss of game progress, including scores and progress toward trophy unlocking; and
Loss of UGC or parts of the game may not function properly, both online and offline.


Sony recommends not changing your PSN ID, if you would like to continue playing those 10 games.

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FoamPosted:

Maze
Chat this should not be released, If you like it or not, Love the idea.. but the outcome what will happen,loosing content... people will change their name not knowing this, because they simply do not look into it that much and BAM content gone, stupid idea.


Lmao then it's on them? They have explained everything that goes into changing your name and they will probably continue to reiterate it. People can read a few simple sentences to know what they are doing and if not then they probably don't care about their gaming much anyways.
I don't think that's what he was getting at. Name changing has already been on Xbox and PC and with the ability to do so, there has never been any negative outcome. People will assume it's the same not knowing they'd lose access to things they bought. Who would think that something so simple as a name change would be more than just that? Sony released this YEARS later but has huge faults that come with it. It's unfinished & a stupid idea on their end.

FoxPosted:

Ohh nice a bet There will be a problem down the line with it :(

XboxPosted:

Better late than never I guess. Hopefully some of y'all get that unique ID you always wanted.

GhostPosted:

Happy to see theyre finally allowing it. Been way to long!

MazePosted:

Chat this should not be released, If you like it or not, Love the idea.. but the outcome what will happen,loosing content... people will change their name not knowing this, because they simply do not look into it that much and BAM content gone, stupid idea.


Lmao then it's on them? They have explained everything that goes into changing your name and they will probably continue to reiterate it. People can read a few simple sentences to know what they are doing and if not then they probably don't care about their gaming much anyways.

PeerPosted:

mixed feelings on this as i read through it sounded amazing even better than xbox but then it said ya may lose things and that's just really not worth it

AnimePosted:

If I was still on PlayStation I would do it .

ChatPosted:

this should not be released, If you like it or not, Love the idea.. but the outcome what will happen,loosing content... people will change their name not knowing this, because they simply do not look into it that much and BAM content gone, stupid idea.

TTGPosted:

It's good that we finally got this, but the outcome is not worth it. Losing other things just for the name change? No thanks.

Rocky5Posted:

Hux
Vapes I was gonna change my name but now I'm not, the name change feature is gonna cause so much issues regarding paid content, game progress and other data you have on your ps4 I suggest people do it with caution, because it seems pretty dumb to release a feature for 5 or 10 bucks with potential issues...


How will it cause any issues? It's still the same account and it'll have the same account ID. Sony would've thought about potential issues long before releasing the feature.


Older games/license system prior to 2018 used your username as the ID, instead of your unique userID, retarded yup. But it's Sony.

So if you change your username some stuff won't work, it's madness they are letting folk change there names knowing there are even a single issue.

Xbox has always used a unique identifier hence changing your username or email does nothing to your content or game purchases. (How Sony should have done it from the get go)


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