Sony explains why you can’t change PSN ID

President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America division “Shawn Layden” spoke in an interview about PSN service and why can’t users change their ID. looks like Sony don’t want players to go around changing names in every game they enter.

“We don’t want to make it so that you can go in, grief a bunch of people in Far Cry, change your avatar, change your username, go into CoD and grief everybody over there. We want to stop that,” he said.

“[We want to do name changing] in a way that’s transparent, but also don’t let people morph themselves, either.

“And yeah, it’s terrible that you have to make decisions on a service sometimes by optimizing around the bad actor. I hate that we have to do that. So we’re trying to balance that between… the 99 percent of users going to have a good experience, how can we help make that happen without giving one more tool to the bad actor to go in and ruin the experience for others?”

Layden confirmed that name-changing and other new features are on Sony’s roadmap for PSN future updates.