PlayStation now has a loyalty programme - PlayStation Stars.
It’s a multi-tiered scheme that is designed to makePlayStationconsole and service use more engaging for players, and is now available in Europe, Asia, the US, Canada, and South America.
But what is the PlayStation Stars programme and how can you get involved? Read on.
What is PlayStation Stars?
For now, there are no hardware limitations, so you don’t even need aPlayStation 5or PlayStation 4 to join.
PlayStation Stars availability
That should cover just about every region, but if you’re not able to access it that might mean it won’t come to your area immediately.
How to join PlayStation Stars
You can also do so through themain PlayStation website, in case you’d rather do it on your desktop or laptop.
How do I earn rewards on PlayStation Stars?
Stars offers up regular challenges and missions to take part in, some of which are as simple as playing any game once per month. Others will be more involved, asking you to solve riddles to work out which games you have to play in which order, for example.
Completing missions can earn you a variety of rewards, which you can find out more about down below.
PlayStation says that new campaigns to take part in will be added to Stars pretty regularly, so you should have things to do all the time.
On top of that, you’ll also be assigned one of four Status Levels based on how many games you own and how many trophies you’ve earned in them.
What PlayStations Stars rewards are there?
Sony has detailed three major types of rewards that are earnable through PlayStation Stars.
The first is the simplest - points that you can spend in the PlayStation Store to get small discounts on any games or DLC that you’re buying.
The second is access to actual products in the PlayStation Store, including full games.
Finally, the third option consists of digital collectables, assets that are (to be clear)nothing to do with NFTsor blockchain technology. Rather, they’re just cool little digital items that you may look at and enjoy based on your favourite PlayStation franchises.
You can display these in a section of the PlayStation app, but they’re not tradeable or in any way redeemable, so they’re just for you to privately enjoy and publicly show off.
How do I redeem my PlayStation Stars points for rewards?
PlayStation Stars is primarily accessed through the PlayStation app on your phone, although a console app will eventually follow.
You can check on your points total, and redeem it for rewards, by opening the app and following the steps below.
This will let you see all the rewards available to you.
If you’re searching for more to do on your PlayStation 5,check out our list of the best games available on the beefy console.
What are PlayStation Stars
Finally, one quick clarification - PlayStation Stars is simply the name of the loyalty programme. That means you don’t actually earn any currency or reward called “Stars”, at this point.
