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#PlayStation Stars Rewards Program Shutting Down, Sony Confirms

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PlayStation Stars Rewards Program Shutting Down, Sony Confirms

Sony has shared its PlayStation Stars rewards program, which never made it off phones and actually onto PS5 and PS4 consoles, will be shutting down. The full closure will take place in November 2026, but the program won’t be accepting any new members, effective immediately.

The news has been confirmed in a PlayStation Blog post, where it’s revealed the firm wants to “refocus” its efforts after learning “a lot from evaluating the types of activities our players respond best to”. These are the key details, as per the blog post:

Starting today, PlayStation Stars will no longer accept new members for this version of the program.
If members choose to cancel their PlayStation Stars membership starting today, it will not be possible to rejoin this version of the program, and members will lose all earned Points.
Current PlayStation Stars members can still earn Digital Collectibles, Points and level up their status until July 23, 2025 at 7:59AM PDT | 3:59PM BST | 11:59PM JST. After this date, there will be no new PlayStation Stars Campaigns available, or any additional rewards or status benefits to earn.
This version of the PlayStation Stars program will fully end on November 2, 2026 and current PlayStation Stars members can continue to redeem Points as long as their Points don’t expire before then.

After signing up to the service, PS5 and PS4 users were able to earn digital collectibles by completing challenges, which could be displayed on their Profile page. In addition, reward points were earned from buying digital games on the PS Store, which could be exchanged for full games or PS Store credit. There won’t be any more rewards uploaded to PS Stars after 23rd July of this year.

PS Stars always flew under the radar, but the PS Store credit rewards it offered were a nice benefit to redeem every so often. The options mysteriously disappeared from the service last year, but then reappeared a month later. PS Stars was mainly tied to the PS App on smartphones and was never properly integrated into the console UI.

“We want to thank all of our players for supporting PlayStation Stars since the launch in 2022,” Sony said. “As we explore new ways to evolve our loyalty program efforts for the future, we’ll continue to celebrate all of our players through the various community activities we have planned.”

Sony isn’t actually the only company to shut its rewards system down, as Nintendo has also recently closed its Gold Points system ahead of Switch 2 releasing.

Will you miss PS Stars? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

[source blog.playstation.com]

Liam grew up with a PlayStation controller in his hands and a love for Metal Gear Solid. Nowadays, he’s found playing the latest and greatest PS5 games as well as supporting Derby County. That last detail is his downfall.

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DonJorginho
11m ago

Sony this generation seem to be allergic to taking any Ws, what a disappointment this has been so far, yet another anti consumer choice that’s most likely on the eve before raising game prices, they probably realised they’d give more points than they wanted with £80 digital games and didn’t want to lose out on the profits, laughable to the core.

If it wasn’t for DS2, Ghost of Yotei and Intergalactic as well as my existing game library I’d probably have fully emigrated to PC this gen after great experiences with the Steam Deck, too many clanger own goals from Sony, need to get their act together and go back to what made the PS4 generation such a home run.

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Ajfennell77
7m ago

@DonJorginho my thoughts exactly if my partner didn’t convince me to go digital game library id fully go pc myself

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Ravix
4m ago

It was nice to get some kind of reward bonus for spending lots of money on their store! But the campaigns were terrible and it wasn’t exactly implemented well unless you already use the app. Not surprised they don’t want to cost themselves a teeny tiny percentage of profits on digital game sales after they wasted a bunch of money in the last few years on those types of game that shall not be named though!

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IOI
4m ago

Lmao I knew it, Sony really is terrible with any type of Rewards system but at least I got around $15 from it

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DonJorginho
4m ago

@Ajfennell77 it stinks as I’ve been a Sony console owner since the PS2 launch, never wanted to play anywhere else but I fear these anti consumer choices will only become more frequent and severe as we move into new territory.

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Titntin
1m ago

Thats a shame! While I didnt care for the collectables and levels, I did enjoy getting a little ‘cash back’ from points trade ins and this helped me fund new purchases.
I guess it was not used so much as it never made it onto the console itself and relied on the PS app.
Still I didnt feel entitled to it and its removal will not affect me much. I don’t see its removal as anti consumer – that’s represented well by putting your game prices up to £80 😊

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RagnarLothbrok
37s ago

Can’t even reward people who spend alot on their platform with the occasional $5 reward.

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MARl0
33s ago

Same crap that Nintendo just pulled as well when they got rid of the gold coins you could use towards eShop purchases. These companies just refuse to give their customers any kind of benefits.