Beginning from today in some territories, you’ll be able to change your PlayStation Network name. However, the procedure does not come without caveats – as expected. Due to last year’s beta test, the platform holder has identified a list of titles with ‘Critical Issues’ – and, perhaps amusingly, they’re mostly first-party releases.
According to the manufacturer, playing these titles after altering your PSN ID could cause problems such as lost in-game currency, deleted progress, and removed user generated content. Reverting back to your old username should fix any issues, and you can do this free-of-charge. Of course, if you’re still actively enjoying any of the following games, then you may want to give changing your name a swing:
- Disc Jam
- Everybody's Golf
- Just Dance 2017
- LittleBigPlanet 3
- MLB 14 The Show
- MLB 15 The Show
- MLB 16 The Show
- ONRUSH
- The Golf Club 2
- Worms Battlegrounds
ONRUSH’s inclusion on the list is surprising, as it released in June 2018 – after the April 2018 cut-off point that Sony mandated compatibility with PSN name changes. This means there could potentially be other stragglers, and while it generally seems safe to alter your username at this stage, you should be aware of the risks before you pull the trigger.
Update (16:00 BST): You can learn a little more about how LittleBigPlanet is handling the transition through here.
[source playstation.com]
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It really isn’t convincing that the list is predominantly first party games, makes you wonder what infrastructure they were using on so many games.
Just Dance 2017 has to be a deal breaker for a lot of people
@IronHammersFC Or did they mainly focus the testing on first party games and didn't test ALL games.
i just bought Everybody's Golf and ive played like 5 min of it so im good thankfully
Only play EG outta that list and I honestly wouldn't be against starting it from scratch
Can't believe a company like Sony was running a ruined database structure for almost a century like storing data of users with a reference of PSN ID's instead of actual numbered ID's in database. They should have changed this system years ago. Looks like a noob software developer made their database structure years ago and they were still using that.
Hey, maybe they will take this opportunity to give a crap about the quality of their franchises.
@MMLgamer Considering the success they've had of late I don't think they will be worrying
They'll surely patch Everybody's Golf, right? I can understand them leaving MLB 14, but EG is still a popular game!
@ILoveVideoGames Or more likely - they didn't see the future connotations and wanted to get a service up and running as quick as possible to stop the PlayStation brand sinking against the online infrastructure of Xbox.
They may not have considered name changes.
I wish they would clarify which issues would be run into among critical issues. Not say here are a few we may have is if identified.
Was LBP3 ever patched from the problem I had were I couldn't even play the game b/c I had DLC from previous games?
If they couldn't fix that major broken game problem they'll never fix this.
@NintendoFan4Lyf It's easy to say that in hindsight now we are all database experts. Pretty harsh to ask for someone's head as the service has and does function. In contrast I would rebuild the database from scratch with a unique known reference as the key and the current key (user name) moved over to a username slot. Easier said than done with millions of users but that would be my method.
'Hey Noisy you sold this car 4 years ago. The owner now can't change the reg years later due to some unforseen changes in social needs and desires and its a locked log book. Thanks for your record breaking months and speed of work but ya know... Get out you are fired.'
Just played LBP3 last night. (great game, I had loads of fun playing in a group but man it's a bit of a buggy mess in need of a patch) also I still use both my Vita and PS3. My digital games library is worth more than a name change. I read in the Q&A that reverting back to the original PSN ID doesn't guarantee all problems will be resolved and some content could be lost for good.
@Dange I totally understand that but the PS3 games i still own i are the ones i never openend so im safe. 😁 But i think ill keep my name.
@badbob001 You bring a good point, and it does have a good point, but I still can’t shake that feeling that it doesn’t bode well
I wish that they had just done what Steam does with a permanent account name and a second, changeable user name that is used in games. Then whatever games don't work with the new, changeable names could just use the original account name.
@NintendoFan4Lyf Fired? LOL. That guy's got promoted to Playstation CEO - no joking here.
Well i changed mine. Hopefully none of my billions of games lose progress etc.
My old name was gmork___ now tell me, can any of you tell how many underscores are there? Yeah i have to explain it every time. SO annoying. I shall now be known as gmork-6
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