That’s right suckas, come February 7th (TOMORROW, in layman’s terms) our beloved
PSN is no more.
By way of a Terms of Service, User Agreement and Privacy Policy update, it will be replaced, now and forever, by a network absolutely identical* to the current model, but with a jazzy new title: the
Sony Entertainment Network.
*Yes, I could have simply stated the
PSN is undergoing a simple name-change, but what is life without the flair of drama?
According to
Eurogamer, a spokesperson from
Sony explained that renaming our
beloved FREE online network (ahem,
Xbox Live, ahem) will make it "clearer and easier" for users to relate the service, inside their brains, with "all
Sony products", reducing confusion and log-ins.
Now I know, as gamers, it is our god-given right to bitch and moan. But apart from remembering to type
SEN and not
PSN, the disruption is fairly minimal.
"The rebranding of
PlayStation Network accounts to
Sony Entertainment Network accounts is a change in name only...Your username or password will not change, nor are we asking you to change them.”