PSN Online ID Change Available Now

gamesquest1 · Apr 11, 2019

wow i would have expected a more refined name change system seems like some janky website name change system that just breaks a ton of stuff.......but then again sony do have a track record of really poor implementation of stuff then it comes to the playstation brand

LunaWofl · Apr 11, 2019

It's nice that this is finally a thing but holy heck, some of the risks with this are just absurd. May lose stuff you've payed for? Seriously?
As much as I understand people regretting past names, it's completely absurd.
You'd have to be a complete moron to change it as is now .-.

So I did;

And, oh boy oh boy, that soup-crazy suggestion sure was tempting.
Keep up them classy suggestions sony

GhostLatte · Apr 11, 2019

Time to make mine GetInTheVan69!

cots · Apr 11, 2019

Yeah, I'm totally going to change my nickname on PSN allowing some of my games I purchased to stop working correctly. *handpalm*

Supster131 · Apr 11, 2019

Finally, I've been wanting this for years, let's go!...

are you fucking serious?

yukivulpes · Apr 11, 2019

And they likely won't fix it for PS3 users so lol whatever, but yeah means there's some poorly coded stuff out there lmao

Deleted User · Apr 11, 2019

yukivulpes said:
And they likely won't fix it for PS3 users so lol whatever, but yeah means there's some poorly coded stuff out there lmao

Who cares about the PS3. We all waited for this day to come. Setting up for that PS5 with a brand new ID is needed

duwen · Apr 11, 2019

dimmidice said:
I like the name Duwen. Though in dutch it means "shoving/pushing" But it's a cool name nonetheless.

That's actually where the nickname originated from - I spent a fair bit of time in the Netherlands in the 90's... my GF at the time would always try to pull doors open clearly marked 'duwen', so I'd drum it in by muttering 'duwen' everytime she went to open a door... eventually she just started calling me duwen to try to make me stop.
I've been using it as one of my online usernames (mainly for gaming related stuff, since gaming is all about pushing buttons) since back then.

...good job I didn't spend that time in France - I can't imagine 'poussez' working out quite the same.

Arras · Apr 11, 2019

Hm. I wanted to change mine, but every sane variation on Arras is pretty much already taken, so unless I want to start adding three underscores (one and two were also taken), maybe I'll just have to deal with my old ID. It's a little closer to my real name than I would have liked, but it is a simple 6-character ID with no numbers, special symbols or qualifiers added to it, which is rare on PSN.

geodeath · Apr 11, 2019

Why are people so excited about this feature? The outcry i have seen through the years is immense. I mean, i get that some people might want to change their ids... but the level of noise seems unreasonably high for such a feature?

duwen · Apr 11, 2019

geodeath said:
Why are people so excited about this feature? The outcry i have seen through the years is immense. I mean, i get that some people might want to change their ids... but the level of noise seems unreasonably high for such a feature?

Probably because it was a standard (and well used) feature on Microsoft consoles.

ut2k4master · Apr 11, 2019

Sakitoshi said:
When I created my psn id I was told to add a number to my id. Maybe the name was already taken, but I doubt it since my nickname is unique enough and have never been taken before me in any site I register (except twitter for some reason).

numbers were definitely not needed. when did you create your psn id?

GhostLatte · Apr 11, 2019

Arras said:
Hm. I wanted to change mine, but every sane variation on Arras is pretty much already taken, so unless I want to start adding three underscores (one and two were also taken), maybe I'll just have to deal with my old ID. It's a little closer to my real name than I would have liked, but it is a simple 6-character ID with no numbers, special symbols or qualifiers added to it, which is rare on PSN.

You can also use a hyphen at the end.

Deleted User · Apr 11, 2019

geodeath said:
Why are people so excited about this feature? The outcry i have seen through the years is immense. I mean, i get that some people might want to change their ids... but the level of noise seems unreasonably high for such a feature?

My main account had my full name. This was 10 years agos when i didn't think much of online until i grew up to notice how embarrassing it is

Arras · Apr 11, 2019

GhostLatte said:
You can also use a hyphen at the end.

Also taken unless I added three of them. Even Arras_- and Arras-_ were taken, so it might just treat _ and - as the same character for purposes of checking whether a name is taken.

Sakitoshi · Apr 11, 2019

ut2k4master said:
numbers were definitely not needed. when did you create your psn id?

a couple months before the massive hack and outage. I think I created it on a ps3, but maybe it was on a psp.
the thing is that it requested me to add at least a character that wasn't a letter. maybe it was a temporal restriction, because, now that I remember, I did create a japanese account later that has only letters.

EDIT: maybe it was to make it different from my email as a measure of protection, IDK.

dimmidice · Apr 11, 2019

duwen said:
That's actually where the nickname originated from - I spent a fair bit of time in the Netherlands in the 90's... my GF at the time would always try to pull doors open clearly marked 'duwen', so I'd drum it in by muttering 'duwen' everytime she went to open a door... eventually she just started calling me duwen to try to make me stop.
I've been using it as one of my online usernames (mainly for gaming related stuff, since gaming is all about pushing buttons) since back then.
...good job I didn't spend that time in France - I can't imagine 'poussez' working out quite the same.

Hah, if you ever need a different one go with "Trekken" (pull)

Social_Outlaw · Apr 11, 2019

Well ever since I changed my name, I haven't notice any add on content or games I've purchased disappeared so I'll just say Sony good job for now but I'm not done yet.. They still need to fix the PS store crashing out every 5 to 10 mintues when your on the app to long or when your MIA.

Vivisector · Apr 11, 2019

tech3475 said:
As someone who has studied DB design, I’m still curious to know what the real reason for this is.

I suspect they’ve used the username as the unique id, which was something I learned not to do within weeks back in uni.

I've heard its because you have a unique integer tied to your account but most games still tied your purchases, savedata, and accounts to your plaintext account name. Sony should have prevented this but they didn't and now we're seeing the issues with it.

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geodeath said:
Why are people so excited about this feature? The outcry i have seen through the years is immense. I mean, i get that some people might want to change their ids... but the level of noise seems unreasonably high for such a feature?

Its because a lot of us were cringey middleschoolers when we created out accounts. Also if you're trans or have changed your name for another reason you might have a big reason to change your account ID if it has now outdated name/gender identifiers.

k3rizz3k · Apr 11, 2019

My friend at work already got his first email about name change. Not requested by him. Let's see how much this happens.

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