PS4’s PSN Name Changes Causing Issues With Some Games, Here’s Which Ones

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

• Bloodborne

• 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

We will be sure to keep this list updated as more games are identified. Meanwhile, you can read more about name changes here.

Thanks, GameSpot.

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