Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Sony Pays YOU to Play?”.
Pretty cool uh sony announces playstation, star’s loyalty program. This is launching apparently later this year and is free to join and you can earn rewards by completing campaigns and activities. So an example would be a monthly check-in campaign that requires you to play just any game to receive a reward kind of smacks of desperation. But okay, here we go there’s other campaigns and activities, including competing in tournaments, earning specific trophies or being the first player in a particular time zone to platinum, a blockbuster title, that’s cool, playstation, plus members earn more rewards than non-subscribers and it does not replace sony rewards. The idea was to create a program that honors the role playstation may have had in someone’s life. Well, that’s a really weird note, no idea what stars, because stars are apparently unbound and limitless. Okay lining up with sony’s slogan play, has no limits all right. Frankly, this is feeling kind of cringe. This is weird uh all playstation stars members will have the opportunity to earn loyalty points and they can redeem them in a catalog which may include psn wallet, funds and select playstation store products. So in-game achievements essentially now have real value tied to them. Is it a matter of time until you can buy achievements, so we have a cash achievement, store that you can then redeem for for psn wallet funds and then, oh, my goodness, and all the currencies are just inter we’re going to have like a like a real Time like sony currency exchange, you know market. I think some of the marketing around this is is weird and cringe like you said earlier uh, but i don’t think it’s a bad idea. I think rewarding like they’re talking about like a speed run to get to platinum a game in a certain time zone like rewarding players that are gon na, be that enthusiastic for your games.
I guess so it doesn’t seem very scalable, like maybe reward the first thousand or something like i don’t know, but you just make a race, and i mean they could do that in the future. They could scale it up, yeah sure and they they talked about. How, like there’s, there’s, i suspect, there’s going to be a variety of different types of rewards and those types of things um, but they’re they’re, they’re, rewarding they’re super hardcores, which makes sense to me. Floatplane chat, speculating that it’s a matter of time before these they’re. They just are all nfts um, there’s no indication if uh these digital collectibles, that they are going to be able to reward people with can be traded or sold. Language used makes them sound a little bit like nfts, but sony vp, grace chen says it is not leveraging any blockchain technology and definitely is not nfts. I mean we’ve talked about this before you can accomplish a lot of the the things that people think about when they think of an nft, yes, without using blockchain or anything like that and being way more energy efficient and all that type of stuff. But just not using those types of security methods and i mean yeah totally unnecessary.
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