The reason why you can’t change your PSN name
Sony Computer Entertainment America president and CEO Shawn Layden explained the reason in an interview with IGN.
“We don’t want to make it so that you can go in, grief a bunch of people in Far Cry, change your avatar, change your username, go into CoD and grief everybody over there. We want to stop that,” he said.
“[We want to do name changing] in a way that’s transparent, but also don’t let people morph themselves, either.
“And yeah, it’s terrible that you have to make decisions on a service sometimes by optimizing around the bad actor. I hate that we have to do that. So we’re trying to balance that between… the 99 percent of users going to have a good experience, how can we help make that happen without giving one more tool to the bad actor to go in and ruin the experience for others?”
Layden added that name-changing and other features are on Sony’s roadmap for future updates.
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Source: http://www.vg247.com/2014/11/17/sony-explains-why-you-cant-change-your-psn-name/
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TrueHardcoreGamerPosted:
Changing ur gamertag/PSN ID is retarded the ONLY ppl complaining about this is XBOX-fanboys, i like that you cant change your PSN ID cuz TROLLS, Cheaters, Hackers abuse this so they dont get caught n get baned, also if you get pawned in match & put on youtube you can change your Gamertag so u dont get humiliated, so again its a HUGE joke to allow change of gamertags, just dont be drunk or high or other drugs while making a gamertag name or if ur a child mabe u should grow fck up ¬ make a retard gamertag like "IloveHairyBalls" as a gamertag.
VampiricPosted:
Who the hell goes on a game and 'greifs' people then changes their name?
Lmfaooo
What'd even be the point in that?
O sony, y u heff 2 b so funny 4?
Lmfaooo
What'd even be the point in that?
O sony, y u heff 2 b so funny 4?
LichPosted:
What an incredibly stupid excuse. I don't know anybody on xbox that has griefed people then paid money to change their gamertag. Lol sony
TitanFallPosted:
WTF what a weird excuse couldn't people just make new accounts and do this? maybe this is a ploy to get people to buy PSN for multiple accounts haha
mysticalrainbowPosted:
Lame excuse. Name changing has never had this issue on Xbox, as it turns out no one cares.
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