PlayStation Stars is Returning After Nearly a Month of Being Down - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 July 2024 / 5,867 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced the PlayStation Stars loyalty program will be returning after being down since early June.
"PlayStation Stars will be returning soon in phased regional rollouts," said the company. "Thank you for your patience and we look forward to welcoming you back."
PlayStation Stars released in October 2022 for free with members able to earn rewards by completing campaigns and activities.
Members are able to earn loyalty points that can be redeemed in a catalog that may include PlayStation Store products and PSN wallet funds, as well as the ability to earn digital collectibles.
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I hope this gave them time to increase the region size. It's not even available in every region PSN operates.
So true I really like playstation stars and happy they did not elminate it.
Pretty pathetic to be honest.
Well it's free cool collectables at least.
I didn't even know it was down. I wonder what caused it in the first place. Maybe it got a big overhaul or something.
Or a server issue.
Yeah that could be it. It seems strange to me that it would take them almost a full month to fix it though.
its terrible i dont care about digital collectibles its more or less impossible to get any psn credit without spending money i signed upto it but didn't seem worth going back on it regular so ive forgot about it but with Microsoft can get points for just clicking on links searches and playing games ive redeemed 1/4 of a million points over the few years i started using it thats alot of store credit towards games (5700 for £5)
You get no rewards from Sainsbury's if you don't spend money in their store (of which btw is a terrible conversion compared some reward schemes). MS reward you to click on a link to view an ad which generates them money, across all their entire network. This is a PS only rewards scheme where you get money back based on purchases. What are Sony going to do? Setup links to go to their search engine?
The outage is bad press for it for sure but they could offer nothing.
It's not only clicking ads and purchases to earn MS points. Points are offered by playing any and specific Game Pass titles, earning achievements, simply checking out games in their store, and earning streaks of these gives you weekly and monthly rewards. I earn about $2 a month just playing games. Sony could easily beef up their rewards system if they wanted to.
PS Stars does do that, it gives you bonus coins for playing games (some just really old) or just "playing" PS+ monthly games.
And of course but then so could a lot of companies. In honestly, I think Nintendo, Sony and MS are slacking, they should give me 100% cashback on all my purchases plus points for free money in the future too.
Is the program mandatory or something? If it's not worth it, then don't use it Karen.
It's pretty ridiculous it took this long. Microsoft Rewards is better.
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