You can earn rewards, loyalty points and digital collectables.

Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced on the PlayStation Blog that it will launch the PlayStation Stars loyalty programme later this year, which will be free to join. As the name suggests, Monthly Check-In is pretty simple: play any game monthly to get something. Members can earn rewards through a variety of campaigns and activities.

Other challenges are more advanced. For example, there will be some where you have to win a championship or achieve specific trophies. There will also be some where we have to be the first in your local time zone to earn the Platinum trophy for a significant game. Loyalty points can be redeemed in a catalogue, giving you a PlayStation Network wallet balance and various PlayStation Store items. PlayStation Plus subscribers, regardless of their tier, will automatically earn points if they make purchases on PlayStation Store and are signed up to PlayStation Stars.

PlayStation Stars will also offer digital collectables. These will be things that PlayStation fans will enjoy, only in digital format: for example, characters from games or other entertainment formats, or perhaps devices that Sony may have a historical connection to. It sounds like the company is going NFT, so it’s no wonder this was disputed in no time.

Grace Chen, Sony Interactive Entertainment’s vice president of network advertising, told the Washington Post that these digital collectables will not be NFTs. They cannot be traded, they cannot be sold, nor does it employ any blockchain technology, and then reiterated that they are indeed not NFTs. So, therefore, they can be new kinds of trophies.

Sony did not give any further details, only spelling out at the end that we should expect this in the future. So until then, we can only speculate what it might be, but the fact is that all the major supermarkets and discount chains now have such a card-based loyalty point system.

Source: Gematsu