PSN ID Change Feature May Have Issues Including Loss Of Save Data And Paid DLC - Sensationalist Headlines

PSN Online ID Change Feature May Have Issues Including Loss Of S.. We previously learned that older PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Vita games may not support the feature and could experience errors as a result. In the latest info provided from the beta testers, it’s been revealed that some of these problems include losing access to content including paid DLC that you have acquired for your games. Other possibilities include losing your progress within games, including save data, leaderboard data, and progress towards trophies. Parts of game applications might not function properly, both offline and online. Lastly, your previous online ID(s) may remain visible to you and other players in some places. Here are the highlights: Change Online ID Overview As part of the System Software 6.10 preview, we are rolling out the upcoming Change Online ID system feature. As a preview user you will be able to change your Online ID using the new system tools. To use this feature please ensure you have a clear understanding of the implications of changing your Online ID and the software’s restrictions – described in the following sections – before software installation. If you are unsure, do not download and install the Preview Programme software. Important Information Before Changing your Online ID: Not all games and applications for PS4™, PS3™, PS Vita, and other PlayStation® systems support the Online ID change feature. If you change your Online ID: You may lose access to content (including paid-for content) that you have acquired for your games, including content like add-ons and virtual currency. You may lose your progress within games, including game saved data, leaderboard data and progress toward trophies. Parts of your games and applications might not function properly, both online and offline. Your previous Online ID(s) may remain visible to you and other players in some places.

Even when they do right, Sony finds a way to do wrong.

I mean, there's a reason this feature is at the beta stage. You are also warned about the possible problems that may arise by changing your id and they even offer you the possibility to roll back.

This isn't an excuse. Open Betas should be for ironing out small bugs like crashes and typing errors. This is literally screwing you out of your paid products. This is supposed to be fixed in a closed testing environment, it's unacceptable.

How is it not a valid excuse when it's a beta and they literally warn you that this may occur: You may lose access to content (including paid-for content) that you have acquired for your games, including content like add-ons and virtual currency. You may lose your progress within games, including game saved data, leaderboard data and progress toward trophies. Parts of your games and applications might not function properly, both online and offline. Your previous Online ID(s) may remain visible to you and other players in some places. If you don't want it to happen to you then just don't sign up to the beta and wait until it's fully released without any bugs, it's not like changing ids is something you need to do right now or you won't be able to at a later date. I would also prefer being given the choice by it being an open beta fully knowing what i'm getting into rather than it being only available to a few users by being closed up.

"Hey guys here's a beta for a new feature. Oh by the way, it has the risk of bricking your ps4 so, don't say we didn't warn you". It shouldn't even be open to the public, I'm not talking a select few users. It should have been addressed by software testers before coming out. It's too big of a bug to be available like that.

How not to do accounts with public display names 101. It would have been so easy to just assign each account a static alpha-numeric string like g4i2gvsgdrh34 for each account, and that's the server side account "name" for purchases and shit, then outward facing they just have a display name that the user can easily change. Seriously, how do you fuck something so trivial up? Even Steam has this feature.

This is what happens when the only account identifier is a username and not a randomly generated, unique hash like how pretty much everyone else does it (Steam, XBL etc etc). I'd be surprised, but this is the same company who left a loophole in the PSN store which allowed you to swap out account IDs in the URL for someone else's so they'd get charged at the checkout page and not you (happened to me when some bastard charged me £250 in F2P currency which Sony was very reluctant to give back, even though they admitted fault and how that currency was on someone else's account not mine).

this is what happens when you get too cocky. Sony is really shitting the bed lately