When I signed up for PSN and selected my online ID, I pretty much thought my personal information was perfectly safe and my real identities remained anonymous to everyone I felt the need to keep it from.
Every Gamer at some point has refused friend invites from individuals to strange for their liking. I have had messages from sick gamer asking for my address so in his words 'he could rape my mum' because he got a beating on Tekken 6 or another example was a guy on Pro Evolution Soccer who claimed he was going to physically throttle me because I scored a goal(he later went on to win the game, but was still as abusive as ever).
There is a fine line between friendly trash talk and abuse, but again we have all encountered these strange beings at some point that go beyond acceptability, personally I've had several games were I have come away thinking a person is one disturbed individual.
Anyway with Sony recently hacked, I have a theoretical scenario that may justify Sony allowing gamers to change their online ID's :P
Most PlayStation user will know, that their personal information such as Name, address, phone number & email address hes been stolen, but furthermore their Gamer ID was also stolen.
Now theoretically as unlikely as it may be, has this breach put PlayStation gamers in danger?
Like other gamers I use my PS ID on serious other gaming websites and sometimes trolls cause arguments on PSN and gaming sites, leading to members (or the troll)being banned for numerous reasons.
However what if a gamer defeats a psychopathic hacker on PSN or outwits them on the web, if they hold your stolen details? Normally you would think, it does not matter, the only thing they know about me is my PSN ID or Username, butthis is no longer the case.
Could these people be sick enough to cross reference your username with the personal details stolen from Sony and hunt you down like a dog? (unlikely but it does happen).
Gamers travailing across the world to kill others over something most gamers would deem stupid or lame does and has happened, Google it.
You will be greeted with headlines such as 'Online game rivalry ends with real life murder', 'Video game fanatic hunts down and stabs rival player who killed character online' and 'Gamer kills rival game for selling virtual sword online'.
Again while it's unlikely to happen, it could. So as a precaution should Sony allow us to change our PSN ID as a further security measure?
This would further separate our PSN ID from our personal data. If our PSN ID could be changed, Hackers would not be able to match our PSN ID to our personal data and would again give gamers the anonymity they held before the breach.
What do you guys think?
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
You can change everything but your PSN id. I see no issue since a PSN id won't lead anyone to your house or your e-mail.
Otherwise, I think your idea that an angry hacker will somehow have your personal information is very paranoid.
What good is it to change you address when it has already been stolen?
Hacker do in fact have our gamer ID and personal details that could easily be cross referenced if a hacker had our gamer ID from a game/website. like I said unlikely but not impossible.
Allowing Gamers to change their ID would make any cross referencing useless and provide extra security
JUST CHANGE IT U CAN DO IT FOR FREE YOU CAN HAVE LIKE 20 DIFFRENT PSN IDs
Really.... Maybee people should just start communicating on the internet as if they were face to face with the person they are talking with. If everybody did that there would be a lot less trash talking and threats. It is easy to make arguments and threats when you know there is no recourse from the other side...
steps to changing your psn:
1. remove all personal data from current psn
2. change email address of current psn
3. make new psn