Yesterday, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced that PlayStation 4 gamers can now finally change their PSN ID after years of fan demand. The feature is currently live on the PS4, and offers everybody one free name change. After this, every time you change your name you will need to fork over $10, unless you're a PlayStation Plus subscriber, then it will only cost $5. It's a pretty reasonable price, however, players need to not only deduce whether changing their name is worth a few bucks, but whether it's worth the issues it may cause them with some games.

According to PlayStation's director of social media, Sid Shuman, any game published after April 1 should support the feature, though games published before this, could have problems. Some of the problematic games have been identified already, but others haven't been, because they haven't been tested. In other words, it's murky waters out there. Here's a brief rundown of the games experiencing issues:

Games With Issues:
PSN name changes may cause an issue in the following games where your previous ID remains visible or just simply causes your ID to disappear. It may also cause user accounts to unlink and settings to be returned to default. According to Sony, signing out and then back in should remedy any of the issues though.

Absolver: Downfall
Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag
Big City Stories
Bloodline
Call of Duty: Ghosts
Crossout
Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin
Dark Souls III
Dragon Quest Builders
FIFA 17 Standard Edition
Gauntlet: Slayer Edition
God Eater 2 Rage Burst
Grand Theft Auto V
Gundam Versus
Guns Up!
Injustice 2 - Standard Edition
Killzone Shadow Fall
Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite
MLB The Show 17
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4
Naruto Shippuden: Storm Trilogy
Naruto Storm: Road to Boruto Expansion
NBA 2K19
PlayStation VR Worlds
Rock Band 4
Rocksmith 2014 Edition – Remastered
The Last of Us Remastered
Titanfall 2
Trackmania Turbo
Trove
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
UNO
Warframe
WipEout Omega Collection

Games With Serious Issues:

With these games, a name change may cause you to lose progress and saved data, in-game currency, and some parts of the game may flat-out not work. Trophy data could also be loss.

Disc Jam
Everybody's Golf
Just Dance 2017
LittleBigPlanet 3
MLB 14 The Show
MLB The Show 16
MLB® The Show 15
ONRUSH
The Golf Club 2
Worms Battlegrounds

Posted: Apr 13, 2019 11:07 am
Related Forum: PlayStation Forum

Source: https://comicbook.com/gaming/2019/04/11/ps4-psn-name-changes-issues-games/