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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tann" data-source="post: 280273" data-attributes="member: 2327">Agreed.I'm 80% digital on PS3 (60 games, only 12 physical) and the risk is wayyyyy too big (moreover on PS3, which is no more supported, except for the annual anti-hack system update <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /> )I would have liked to shorten my PSN ID, but possibly break everything (purchases, online login) for removing a few less letters in my ID... well, no.I found <a href="https://blog.us.playstation.com/2018/10/10/psn-online-id-change-feature-entering-playstation-preview-program-soon/#comment-1245174" target="_blank">an interesting post on the PS blog</a> about the Sony's possible workaround to finally allow the ID change. It seems a bit clunky, but there was a bad online architecture design right from the beginning (make the online ID the primary key is a pure nonsense), so we can not expect something very clean. ----------------------------"From what I’m gathering, it appears that the way the Playstation network was originally architected back when PS3 was announced, they failed to tie the PSN ID to a unique identifier on the back end.If you were to look at the backend server, you would see a folder structure consisting of PSN ID’s instead of numberic identifiers. For example, if your name was “SniperWolf”, your folder on the server would simply be named as /sniperwolf/trophies or /sniperwolf/cloud-data. Sony has been trying to figure out how they can rename/replace the server SQL data for years without people losing any of their information. Bad design IMO.What I believe they are doing now as a “workaround” to allow PSN ID changes, is they are essentially building an Active Directory tree, and adding whatever new PSN ID as an “alias” of your original. So therefore the core structure of their services stays the same, your data is still located in the folder /sniperwolf/trophies, however you have an alias that “points” to that folder structure and pulls all info relevant to your account."----------------------------Makes sense. The games older (or without an update) than the PSN ID change feature, won't know where to look if the PSN ID is modified.</blockquote>

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