PSN Avatar resetting?

[JohnCenaSong-]

I've seen a few friends avatars go back to the grey smiley face over the last few months and just today it happened to me, anyone know why this is or have had it happen themselves?

[HusKy]

Happened with my alt twice in about 12 months. No idea why it happens though.

[cris3f]

It has happened to me 2 times in the last few months. I would guess it's something related to the supposedly forthcoming name change feature.

[Guest]

Hmm. That’s interesting. The idea is that should anyone change their avatar from the default set up upon creating their PSN Account, they cannot revert it back. This intrigues me as to how this is happening. I would only think as @cris3f said it has something to do with the name change beta implimention.

 

Speaking of the Online ID name changing, why hasn’t any additional information been released by Sony since the beta was introduced? Is this like Diablo: Immortal where the “game” (online casino?) was revealed with much objective appaul and has not been further discussed since believed as a direct result of this? The name change “loss of data” fiasco may have prompted Sony to drop out all together with this and let’s face it, there was no way they could’ve executed this flawlessly as the PSN was not created to to support name changing from the very beginning. So that’s Sony’s fault they couldn’t deliver the idea properly 12 years after the PSN was introduced with the rough launch of Sony’s installment to the 7th Generation.

 

 

Edited February 15, 2019 by Skeptical69

[Lava_Yuki]

its happened to me once about 2 weeks ago, i dont know why. I just reverted it back

[Eyjabria]

Same has happened with all the accounts on my consoles multiple times already, and it's occurring again right now. Seems like an issue with PSN. Both paid and free avatars that are part of the default set reset to the default "no avatar chosen smiley face" image for no reason. A bit annoying as it gets old to be choosing the avatars again on each account.

[Isa]

On 15/02/2019 at 7:39 PM, JohnCenaSong- said:

I've seen a few friends avatars go back to the grey smiley face over the last few months and just today it happened to me, anyone know why this is or have had it happen themselves?

Think its due to server work、 it's happen to 3 of my account's and in 2 of the cases it went back to normal after 1 - 2 months. It's werid though because if you don't sign into them it shows normally in preview then default once clicked、 but once logged in show's  default for both. But it's not permanent

One of the EU little big planet avatars are mis-assigned and show differently in two preview and profile、 not sure if that was fixed

Edited February 23, 2019 by Isa

[Xorhi]

On 2019/2/23 at 8:09 PM, Isa said:

Think its due to server work、 it's happen to 3 of my account's and in 2 of the cases it went back to normal after 1 - 2 months. It's werid though because if you don't sign into them it shows normally in preview then default once clicked、 but once logged in show's  default for both. But it's not permanent

One of the EU little big planet avatars are mis-assigned and show differently in two preview and profile、 not sure if that was fixed

 

Yeah、 just happen to mine today. Can't be bothered setting it again.

[Wikkibur]

Happened to me too. Week ago. Gotta put it back soon. This is the first time it is happening.

[Vorlon]

Mine has not only turned into a white smiley, but also disappeared from my collection.