DeathScythe1003 — 9 years ago(November 15, 2016 02:44 PM)

Today, NeoGAF member kirbasin dug up some interesting details about a PS4 SDK update that could possibly hint at the arrival of PSN ID changes in the future.
When kirbasin was reading notes for Unreal Engine 4.14 the NeoGAF user noticed the following:
Refactored the PlayStation 4 Online Subsystem engine plugin to support PlayStation 4 SDK version 4.008.061.
Deprecated the use of Sce Np Online Id, replacing it with Sce Np Account Id, as per Sonys recommendation. Online users are now exclusively identified by their Sce Np Account Id.
Simplified the handling of unique net IDs across the PS4 online subsystem.
Switched from Np Toolkit to Np Toolkit2, to support the new APIs which work with Sce Np Account Id.
Added asynchronous name resolution to convert between Sce Np Online Id and Sce Np Account Id, using Sonys ID mapper web interface.
For PlayStation 4 online users, the To String and Get Bytes functions in Unique Net Id now return the users Sce Np Account Id.
Previously these functions returned the users Sce Np Online Id. Any custom online code or services backend will need to handle identifying users by their Sce Np Account Id, as according to Sonys recommendations.
If required, the Sce Np Online Id for local users and friends can be obtained via the Get Display Name interface in Online User.
Now, this is far from anything concrete, but it appears that Sony is implementing changes that will make games retrieve PSN ID via internal account ID, which in turn would allow to unbind data from the display name.
Again, all of this should be taken with a grain of salt, but alas, its exciting news for all out there with horrible PSN names which is a lot of you.
http://www.dualshockers.com/2016/11/15/rumor-ps4-sdk-updates-hint-psn-id-changes-future/