After all these years, Sony broke news that starting in early 2019, PlayStation users will finally be able to change their PSN Online IDs.
The confirmed beta for this feature is almost ready to begin, as Sony is sending out invites to UK gamers and with it comes all the nitty gritty details of what could happen if you do change it.
WARNING: I promise you’re not going to like the fine details below.
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/€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 utilise 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.
Y I K E S. We feel like you should probably, ya know.. make a new online ID if you really need to spice things up in your PSN relationship.
What do you think, Brah? Worth it? Going to keep your old! Or did Sony REALLY drop the ball with this entire ordeal??
Sounds like a massive clusterfuck that I’ll be staying far away from. Good lord.
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You ain’t lying, Sir.
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I was waiting on this but after reading all that it doesn’t sound like a good idea I’ll be staying completely away from this and as much as I want to change my PSN name I am keeping it?
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I mean it is just a beta test at this point. I’m sure most if not all of this will be resolved before it goes live.
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Y’all have to be pretty desperate to want to change your ID with these T&Cs.
Just set up a secondary account and use that as your primary account. Just use your original account for making purchases.
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Creating a second account is not a fix because it’s almost the same thing. You won’t have any of your current progress like trophies and games saves on a new account. If you do that then you might as well just change your name.
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AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH WTF is right!!!!!!
One more time Sony can’t get something right…
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The only good thing here is the first change is free
everything else sounds really bad. It’s pretty much the same as creating a new account and starting from 0.
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Definitely not worth it!
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