PS4's PSN Name Change Can cause difficulties with some games, Here the List - Ultimate Guide

Good news for PlayStation users, since the PSN ID change function will be available for the PlayStation 4 platform very soon. It is expected to be enabled this week, it is even available in different locations. The mode used will allow you to change your PSN ID without any value the first time, all subsequent changes have a cost of $ 10 while PS Plus users will get a reduction of $ 5.

You can change your PSN ID through the PlayStation 4, or through a web browser.

Despite all the good news, it is also possible that not all PS4 games are developed correctly with their new identification, you must be careful as some of these difficulties may be to bring serious consequences.

PlayStation made a post on his blog explaining that "As a result of the preview program, we've found an instance where a game did not fully support the feature." The director of social networks of PlayStation, explained that any game published since April 2018 to date should be compatible with this function, despite that the games have not been tested with this function in its entirety.

As a consequence, Sony manifested itself by publishing a provictional list that reflects those games that could cause difficulties in the event that the user changes their PSN IDs. Sony explains that "Large majority of PSP games support the feature," and to the extent that the change can be reversed, you will want to know the size of the problems present.

When users have changed their PSN IDs, you should consider that the games mentioned below can cause difficulties and these games are separated into those that have problems and those that have "critical problems".

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These titles with non-critical problems solvable when closing and re-entering your session, can present the following anomalies when changing their PSN IDs:

-Clients' accounts are disconnected and the configuration returns to the default configuration in these titles.

-It may happen that the previous ID remains visible or simply disappears.

 

These titles with critical problems may have the following anomalies when changing their PSN IDs:

-You can lose the progress and / or the game currency.

-Parts of the game can work correctly.

Sony advises these users not to change their PSN ID as it is "possible to incur permanent game errors or data loss".