PS4 will launch with real name IDs
Yes, you can use your real name on PS4 at launch.
Although Microsoft plans on letting Xbox One owners eventually use their real names instead of their Xbox Live Gamertags, that feature has been delayed beyond launch. PS4, however, will launch with the option of using a real name ID.
Sony confirmed to Kotaku that the real-name option is exactly that: an option. "This isn't an all-or-nothing, named-or-anonymous proposition," the site says, pointing out that you'll still be able to play with your PlayStation Network ID if you don't want people to know who you really are.
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Yes, you can use your real name on PS4 at launch.-
Yeah but will they let us change our PSN IDs?
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Nope lol, hell I don't even like how the 3DS uses my first name.
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Why does you 3DS use your first name?
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They were introduced to each other.
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Back when the Battle.Net real name debate was raging, I remember Garnett Lee and Brian Leahy pushing hard for real names, as a source of accountability. Of course, as published personalitiesm they had less to fear about their real name being outed... because they were already known online and in the media as Garnett Lee and Brian Leahy.
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it's pretty easy to observe on any random blogs that use FB comments, I don't see a reason to think gaming forums would be any different
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Everyone that doesn't use their real name should be given a fake one by SONY a la MST3K - http://mst3krollfizzlebeef.ytmnd.com/
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Yes, absolutely.
Hell, I accidentally spelled my normal pseudonym wrong when signing up for my PSN account and have been using that ever since, so using my real name will negate that. -
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Why won't google stop this or just force everyone to use their real name?
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I wish it was only real name ID for any network play so people would be punished for being super racist assholes.
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Honestly I am kinda happy about this. Overall I don't say anything stupid when playing online, but occasionally I do have a habit of shooting my mouth off when I get to into the game. With my real name attached to my gamertag I will be more guarded in what I say in those situations
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Great things will happen when a prospective employer Googles your name.
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"This guy never beat God of War? Application Declined!"
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Why wouldn't you want this? The whole "make up a fake name" thing for using the internet is, IMO, pretty played out at this point now that it's a pretty central part of most people's daily lives, and they are frequently using it not to hide in their basement, but instead to socialize and organize in the real world as well.
I have no problem with this, and if anything, would love to see *everyone* on the internet forever identified by their real names from not until forever. Fuck this hiding behind anonymity shit.-
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Oh? What about those people in a horrible job, country, or situation that can hide behind anonymity and find some help out there? You sure would fuck them over with your great idea.
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I'm not speaking proscriptively, as though I think everyone should be *forced* to shed the veil of anonymity. And it's not like speaking anonymously was invented with the internet, people did it before and will continue to do it long after most people use their own names online.
I'm just saying I'd absolutely prefer it if (barring reasons of safety) everyone just used the internet as the person they actually are, instead of constructing these false personas/names to hide behind. It made sense to me in the 90s, and even the 2000's, but no? It just seems weird to insist upon not "getting with the times", as this attitude seems far more prevalent among older internet users. -
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it's not about hiding what I do, it's about keeping crazy motherfuckers from finding me
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So then if you have the name 'John Smith' You're practically anonymous on PSN but if your name is Pippen Gobsmack you're probably fucked?
Names have Jack Shit to do with anonymity simply because they aren't unique enough. In fact unique , made up names are a better method of identifying the person. -
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True. If it didn't mean losing damn near 50k posts, I'd switch. That's part of why I like initiatives like this, where your account doesn't change at all, you can just use your actual name now.
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I'm Ok with this.
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Of the people who are really against real names online, I bet 15% have legitimate concerns that make anonymity important to there web presence. 85% just want to keep there comment/porn/web history secret out of embarrassment.
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Agreed...I've had the same PSN ID since before PSN existed...I created it when I joined the Playstation Underground way back in the day, when I got my first Playstation 2 broadband adapter, along with Twisted Metal Black, and soon after the original S.O.C.O.M. and Everquest. I've never been able to change it, and the ability to just use my real name is actually a welcome prospect after having been stuck with the same handle for so long. At least on Xbox Live I can pay $10 to change it. Still no word from Sony on whether we will EVER be able to change our PSN nicknames :-(
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