2017

>2017
>you still can't change your psn name

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

It's okay when Sony does it, goy.

>not coming up with the ultimate username on the first try

Are nintoddlers and trasexboxuals really this incompetent?

THIS

My name is clever and only involves one "1" in place of an "I".

Bromosap1ens

t.xXsepiroth666xX

>tfw when i bought my ps3 i legitimately made my username ub3rkid1337

But why would I want to do that? I like my name the way it is, trapeater69

bought a ps3 way back in hs
username is Cardinal420
I've come to terms with it

Is there an actual reason for not having this yet?

I bet they can't even do it due to poor methods

like some games may be using the username as-is for identification and changing the name would make you lose online progress

xbox was probably using some under laying unique ID and your tag was more like a display name attached to it

Thats actually true. I forgot the details but the way the database works is so fucked that changing anything will break the whoel thing.

>clever
How old are you?

People would start selling accounts en masse, think about.
>Xx_ganja_xX no longer plays his ps4 and has an account with X amount of games purchased
>other guy buys account for 25% of what the digital games go for
>changes account to NewFag
>saved 75% and got some free trophies, meanwhile Sony gets nothing

That is retarded. I'm sure they could do it if they really wanted to.

>trasexboxuals

kek

if there is indeed database issues, I could see them introduce an actual display name eventually

but only newer games/systems would support it since PS3/vita and old PS4 games would still grab the default name not to break

But my name great
>boipusidestroyer

Couldn't they do like the reverse? Use the current psn name as the unique ID and duplicate it as a display name and allow that to be changed? I don't know how feasible that is, I'm more or less tech illiterate.

It isn't just some game, its the entire system that works this way. People who have gotten forced name changes lose all of their achievements, friends, messages, cloud saves, and so on. What Sony does when they "change" a person's name is ban the old account, make a new one, give that new account all of the same game licenses as the previous one. and call it a day.

see
the real problem is that it wouldn't be supported by games that never get updated

you'd see it on friend lists and stuff though

>tfw I had to make a new account because I made a fake birthday when I first created my account
>can no longer change password

Who cares, real problem is that you can't change your region.

Had my name day one of ps3 release, used it with online games prior anyway and have for 15 years? Still no regrets.

you forget that they are the same people that were storing sensitive data in plain text

maybe if they drop PSN support for PS3/Vita at least it'd make things less limited, they might have updated things to work differently on PS4 but can't use it because of old infrastructure needing to work

>PSN name is cringey as fuck
cant get onto the internet anyway lol, it stopped working for no reason and fixes dont work

>Playstation 8
>Whenever I see my username I'll be remembered oan lyrics from a song by a indie band I liked in 2006

>lyrics from a song by a indie band I liked in 2006
I'm curious now

>your PSN name is the nick you been using since like 1997, has no numbers or anything weird in it, everyone knows you by that, and you also don't want to change it
now if only it hadn't been taken on steam by the time I made an account

>had 3 letter username and in my return was given my username plus an underscore and a number.

fuck you sony. it was fine as it was.

Just pretend it's ironic. I'd definitely assume it's meant to be ironic if I saw you in a game.

That sounds very unlikely to me, although I guess it's possible that they would be that incompetent. A character string would make a poor primary key for database lookups (O(n) comparison cost instead of O(1) for an integer). You'd generally associate each user with a unique numeric ID and use that instead for internal lookups.

even if it's not limited to their own database, there's still the question whether online games used that id or not

maybe the only thing they had to work with (At least in the PS3 era) is a PSNGetName()

Didn't think about that. That would seem like a pretty massive oversight on their part but I guess that's plausible.