*** The Official Playstation 4 (PS4) Thread ***

beachBOYken said:
Until dawn is pretty awesome if you like interactive story driven games.

The order 1886, despite the mixed reviews is worth a playthrough and can be had cheap now.
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Bloodborne if you fancy a challenging game.

Resogun is a classic PS4 game, and there are some pretty cool smaller games like Everyone has gone to the rapture.

Drive club and now bike club
or maybe even rocket league?
 
Noxia said:
Thanks, only thing is my PS4 isn't set as primary one and I cant use the deactivate all function for 6 months I think as whoever accessed my account did that. Doesn't affect anything as far as I can see, can still play everything I own.
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you'd think Sony would let you reset that. Might be worth a call see if they'll do it, after all you get your account stolen, but least you got it back. Can fully understand why you was angry.
 
Noxia said:
Thanks, only thing is my PS4 isn't set as primary one and I cant use the deactivate all function for 6 months I think as whoever accessed my account did that. Doesn't affect anything as far as I can see, can still play everything I own.
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Likely to have put your account into negative balance for the money that was reversed so likely whatever was refunded was there to square your account.

Regards losing your PS4 as your primary, I don't think you'll get anywhere on the phone, best to email/tweet as far as Im aware. Problem you have is that if PSN goes down so does access to all your digital titles - Id be rather annoyed myself tbh...

I know they used to have tools to undo PS3 activations and even the website lets you revoke licenses, but don't think you can with PS4.

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
So both DC and GTS will support VR - might find it hard to resist first gen VR if that works well. Though I swear Sony killed the idea of DC supporting VR when that was originally delayed because it wasn't a good fit...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
Apparently Sony database engineers are looking into feasibility of changing psn ID. Not sure what the issues are with it, must be some issues with backend infrastructure and the psn ID if changed must effect other areas of the service they provide not visible to end users, but I for one hope they find a method to do it..

Which also makes me think, while they are working on this. Get some security guys in to consult on how to implement two step verification. PSN desperately needs this added, if they do work out how to change PSN IDs.
 
I bet they used your psn name as a primary key...

Agree on two step auth, personally it's on the top of my list on what should come next.
 
Zhokel said:
I bet they used your psn name as a primary key...

Agree on two step auth, personally it's on the top of my list on what should come next.
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Yes I bet they have... Instead of their databases using a sequenced generated number when you created your ID they just used the name you selected as the key hence why I think they are having issues with it.

Well anyhow, two step needs adding regardless of PSN ID change or not.
 
So spent nearly 7 hours backing data up to an external, whipped out the original HDD at lunch and put in a new 2TB. Installed the OS again, tried to restore the backup I made and it's failed twice now. Trying it one final time with a new USB cable before I commence the 430GB worth of games again... not impressed.
 
iv-tecman said:
Yes I bet they have... Instead of their databases using a sequenced generated number when you created your ID they just used the name you selected as the key hence why I think they are having issues with it.
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Whats wrong with doing "update table.field where id = psnid set id = newpsnid"

Obviously with the required validation in place to check for existing accounts etc.

I would do something a little more complex than that though, generate a UID or MD5 hash of their existing username going forward or even clone the entire PSNID database and generate a load of new ID's per account and run some queries to update any existing tables to link from old.id to new.id then swap over once its stable.
 
It could be a case of complexity with foreign keys etc, and maybe even older games or something architectural wise somewhere that relies on this (such as games grabbing this info). It's been a while since I've messed with databases though.

But just as an example as it has been brought up elsewhere when looking at this topic, UPlay allows you to change your name, but this wasn't always the case. If you play certain older games on UPlay, they will bring up your older name before you changed it as it seems to be the key and then another column for display name.

I guess they could do this for PSN as an alternative, especially as we now have real names on PS4, but they might not (and players will probably complain) if older names showed up in older games, which updating all of them is not really an option.
 
Anything is possible with databases. Of course they can allow you to change it.

The issue is whether they can make the required change of the DB without any having any adverse impact. Thats the key

They don't want to make a change to allow this to happen and break a load of people's accounts in the process.
 
Not sure how you do this, but me and my mate have ps4 systems. I go round his place for beers , parties etc regular, and I do end up taking my ps4 as I've got way more digital games, Spotify without advertisements etc so I just take my own ps4.

But I'm getting tried of this. I know you can log into his ps4 but is it possible we can both share each others games, for example can I play his Fifa 16 he got digitally and he can play my recent digital games for example, but would that mean if he's playing my digital copy if ac syndicate does this mean I can not play the game till he quits?

We both have ps+ subs. Would be nice to just log into his ps4 and not have to keep lugging mine about.. I'm maybe stuck in the dark ages, I'm sure these new online consoles can do this..
 
I've replaced both my L2 and R2 after they snapped, easy job to do but annoying having to do it. Had controllers from other consoles last years, so it should be no different with this controller.

I even had to replace my analogue sticks as they were falling apart, thankfully the Xbox One ones that i bought have lasted. Shame really love the DS4 it feels perfect to me but it's build quality is poop.
 
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