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Shawn Layden has spoken to IGN, on a number of issues one of the biggest being reported was his comments on name changes. An option lacking on Sony's Playstation network. Shawn Layden is the current Sony Computer Entertainment America's President and CEO. European and America arms of Sony are far more public compared to the Japanese arms providing interviews far more often.
Shawn Layden own words from the IGN interview transcript.
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"The road map for feature extension is very long. It goes from here to Hangzhou in China,"
"And all of those things are on there. Yeah, we want to give you more control across your experience and your profile and your presence on the network."
"At the same time, as you'll understand, we don't want to make it so that you can go in, grief a bunch of people in Far Cry, change your avatar, change your username, go into CoD and grief everybody over there. We want to stop that."
"[We want to do name changing] in a way that's transparent, but also don't let people morph themselves, either. And yeah, it's terrible that you have to make decisions on a service sometimes by optimizing around the bad actor. I hate that we have to do that. So we're trying to balance that between