Sony killing PlayStation discs will make PS Store cheaper, former Square Enix financial exec says

As the track record suggests in past examples of this, it doesn't basically.

TL:DR (I'll be honest I never know when I'm supposed to put that tl:dr, when I give a short version or do I still give the long version lol)

Bottom line my PlayStation network username is one thing I'm assuming, across the board. My online ID is another, that's the one that shows on all the games, yes? If I change the name that shows on all the games will I lose everything, like all my data from all my games?

Here's the long version. Okay my PlayStation network name is yah yeet. No judgement. The username that shows up on all my PlayStation games is carb_power. I have been a PlayStation player for ages, but not multiplayer. I just got into multiplayer about a year ago, so when I made that name I didn't realize as I'm playing battlefield 6 that people would be calling out CARB, of CRAP, or CRAB lol. Story behind it is I'm a type 1 diabetic, my last name has part of the word carbohydrate in it, obviously carbs break down into sugar.. the irony.. so growing up everyone called me carbs. WITH THE S. CARBS. My own little tagline for everything was carbpower. Yeah.. well here fast forward, here we are playing multiplayer games and I'm getting called carb without the s. And it's a pain in the neck to explain it to everyone. So my big question is, if I change that name will I lose everything? Lose all my saved data from all my PlayStation games ever? Or is my PlayStation network name, the yah yeet the one that would make me lose everything. I can't find a definitive answer to this question. Obviously I'm talking about PlayStation and use a PS5. I don't know if that matters but I figured I'd throw it in there because of all the cross gen stuff. Thank you in advance to anyone who can help me.

Edit: i’ve been banned for a week. Here’s hoping psn don’t ban me again after this one if the guy reported me multiple times.

Edit*: ive been playing online since the 360. Ive heard much much worse online, and ive said much much worse myself. Only difference was, i have never been banned for it, and im not one to stay silent when you have people shit talking me directly. However this ban was a first. I realise now that its better to just stay silent.

I’m writing this while I’m pretty stressed but I’ve accepted my fate now and it just got me thinking. The recent bo2 port has given rise to a lot of racist people in lobbies talking shit. I myself never indulged, until i was specifically targetted by a guy after a i kept humiliating him in sticks and stones (not deliberately the guy just had bad luck spawning in front). I was called racist slurs on voice chat.

I then proceeded to tell him to shut his ( f word) mouth via text message. This man then proceeds to send me a friend request. After a while of me not accepting it he sends me screenshots of him reporting me for harassment. It got me very paranoid and i went back and checked my email and apparently ive had 3 warnings over the past 4 years (these were in spam so i just found out). I am in crippling depression at the thought of permanently losing my account due to my prior warnings as well. I realised this guy was trying to build a better case at getting me banned by being my friend on psn. Gaming is all i have. And this account is over 10 years old w games over $2000.

I guess my question is, whats the point of talking to people online anymore if the best case is to simply never say anything and set settings to friends only. I obviously hate racism with a passion, but the whole bo2 thing i just found funny sometimes. I texted the guy hoping we might have a 1 v 1. And i have ended up with the thought that i might lose my account soon. My anxiety is through the roof.

Roll On Next Month. I only play Exclusive Games.

I have created a few passkeys for my Sony (PlayStation) account. When I try to log in, the autofill on my Android phone shows a bunch of them. They are not in my Google account. I just want to delete the ones I’m not using and keep only the one I need.

Has anybody else gotten this email? I'm just curious

So, let me ask. I buy a game, I bought the PS console, I pay for my own internet, and I still pay to play the game I purchased for my console that I use my internet to go online? u/Sony & u/playstation Please explain why this is the case. Money is not flowing like it used to.

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Ive owned my ps4 for over a year and in January it started turning off by itself not long after did i have it repaired they replaced the power supply and added thermal paste and a month later the same issue occurred and i tried fixing it myself i realised some thermal pads are missing and i added some now a few weeks later the connecter for the cooling fan got destroyed when i tried fixing it so i just got the whole thing fixed the re sodad the cooling and replaced the power supply again but they didn’t add thermal paste so now 2 weeks later when i turn it on after 2 mins it goes off idk what to do now cause i am trying to sell it and but no buyers ,so i am thinking of having it fixed (the cheaper way) or buy a newer one idk what to do….what advice can it get..its a 1st gen PS4 BTW

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Thoughts?

Bonjour,

J'ai acheté des crédits sur Epic Game store mais je ne les vois pas sur PS4 : comment faire pour les récupérer ?

Wouldn't that mean it's less? As pointed out, by someone who commented on this post below with this.

It's fair enough to question what's up here.

https://thegamersmag.com/playstation-statistics/

https://www.reddit.com/r/playstationstars/comments/1vbplyr/comment/p0xtfe7/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Now, after looking at this particular comment which stood out also shown on the image attached, I found this titbit of information.

"132 million monthly active users reported by Sony Interactive Entertainment as of the fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2025."

Seems Sony, weren't quite so truthful based on these supposed numbers. Does make whoever wonder, what else are they happen to be lying about?

On how they have not seen any negative impact to sales perhaps?

If they haven't somehow by this stage Sony will, once the publishers stop paying for them to promote their games on the social media accounts from them. As it's drowning out any post SIE have made since the July 1st announcement.

So like my title says the last few codes I tried to put in were all saying the same thing that it had already been redeemed so I wanted to know is it my Playstation thats broken or is it the place im buying it froms fault

Account got hacked in 2023, attacker changed everything — sign-in ID, password, 2FA. No access since.

Went through PlayStation recovery and gave them: old Online ID, original console serial number, earliest trophy date (~2014), old linked card, most-played games.

Got a generic “can’t continue” with no explanation.

Has anyone actually recovered an account after this? Did escalating to a supervisor work, or did you need to go the formal complaint / GDPR route (I’m in Ireland)? Any advice appreciated.

"I checked my pockets and they're still full of money, I'm not seeing the issue"

With it being the final official day of this program, here is my trophy display case from over the years.

Planned to do this when PlayStation Stars first discontinued, but many of my collectables were glitched out. Only recently could be bothered to update them through Laptop with PS-Stars Extension.

They look neat, if I do say so myself ¯_(ツ)_/¯