Read this before you decide to change your PSN name

[Lokozuna]

The 6.10 system software preview is currently rolling out to selected candidates and there are a couple of unfortunate repercussions for changing your PSN name.


Important Information Before Changing your Online ID:

Not all games and applications for PS4™, PS3™, PS Vita, and other PlayStation® systems support the Online ID change feature. If you change your Online ID:
• You may lose access to content (including paid-for content) that you have acquired for your games, including content like add-ons and virtual currency.
• You may lose your progress within games, including game saved data, leaderboard data and progress toward trophies.
• Parts of your games and applications might not function properly, both online and offline.
• Your previous Online ID(s) may remain visible to you and other players in some places.


Change Online ID Restrictions During Preview:

The changes during the preview will adhere to the following structure:
• First change is free for all users.
• Second change will be charged at $9.99 / $7.99 (PlayStation®Plus subscribers receive a 50% discount).
• If your previous Online ID violates any of the current Terms of Service, you will not be able to revert back to your previous Online ID.
• You can revert to your previous Online ID once per account during the preview period.
• Sub-Accounts cannot utilize the Change Online ID feature.
• After you change your Online ID, it may take a few hours for some services and applications to reflect the new ID.

If for any reason you have issues after changing your Online ID you can revert back to your previous ID at no charge. However:
• you may only do this once during the preview period;
• changing back to your previous Online ID may not fix all issues (you may not recover all or any lost content, progress and functionality; and
• if you want to change back, do so as soon as possible because changing back to your previous Online ID may affect content, game progress and functionality associated with your new Online ID.

 

[levitate]

Still changing.

 

[Maude]

I’m good

 

[horizon]

that shyt sound trash as fukk

 

[el_oh_el]

shyt reads like possible side effects for a medicine
No wonder why they never let us do this shyt all this time.
I'll let others be the test dummies for this before I take the plunge

 

[Abuchunky]

 

[Judo]

Sony doing the most again. :lmaoooo:
I swear they make this PlayStation lifestyle a love/hate thing. :justwhoo:

 

[Liquid]

I think Sony should hire some Nintendo networking people. I think even they will handle this better

 

[Address_Unknown]

This the same company that limits how many times your account can be placed on another machine as well.

It's like these fakkits actually gain some sort of pleasure in disabling the content you are ultimately renting when you buy digital media.

Their 180 on backward compatibility is something I've came to terms with since I still own all my old media and consoles but this silly shyt is damn near Draconian.

 

[TheGodling]

I was never going to do this to begin with but holy fukk, how can they even justify this shyt?

This whole list basically reads like Sony saying:

'Yes, you can change your ID now. But you know you just done fukked up, right?'

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

Jokes on them, I have no add-ons, leaderboard data or virtual currency

 

[O³ (O cubed)]

So if I'm reading this correctly, if you change your PSN username you may lose access to your games and dlc.


fukking Sony

 

[5010]

I don't recall this being a problem when I did this on another console. Or Steam for that matter.

Glad I just said fukk it and created a new profile.

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

So basically, their name change update is the equivalent of just making a whole new account under a new name like we could have always done.

 

[Los!]

Damn...

Not changing