Sony Rewards Program Is Coming To An End on Dec. 31, 2024

Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced that it is ending the Sony Rewards program on December 31, 2024, and as a result that date will be the last time possible to redeem points and access your account.

[helicoptergirl]

This is a shame. I've been using it since the start. It had a few problems and issues but overall I did end up saving a little bit over 60 dollars using this program. There was probably not enough people using it.

[Cacabunga]

Is it playstation stars?? I really never understood it. I am still level 1

[PS_HCT]

This is not playstation stars. Sony Rewards is a US rewards program linked to a visa credit card.

[darthv72]

I just checked... I have 144 points at the moment. Not even enough to get a $5 PS card. I can get a $1 digital gift card to Target or home Depot though.

[blackblades]

I thought they were been done with this, I redeem some good stuff with this in the past. Wonder how much i got its been awhile

[OtterX]

I've gotten so many free games throughout the years w this program, this sucks. I've been with it since the beginning.

I just run a majority of my needed purchases through it and pay it off immediately instead of using cash or debit. The most recent was on Tuesday I got a $10 dlc free. It was great as long you're not borrowing out large amounts of money that you don't have.

[ChasterMies]

Realistically, those weren’t free games. You could have used another cards rewards points or bought Sony products on sale and then used the savings to buy PlayStation games.

[OtterX]

Well there was a large boost on any purchase made on PSN, so there was an incentive to use over other cards' rewards. It used to be better, then they lowered it. I forget the exact multiplier though.

I pretty much got this $10 DLC free this week just by resubbing my PS+ Premium. (On sale during Days of Play) Not a lot of other cards would give that much back

[dumahim]

Right. I can do the same thing with my credit card rewards, but I have much more flexibility in what I can redeem those points for, including buying PS games.

[shadowT]

I never owned the credit card. Was this program available in Europe and Asia?

[Profchaos]

Seriously it was awesome Ive gotten a few free psn vouchers out of it.

[FPSRUSSIA]

i remember getting Assassin creed black flag for free with Redeeming my Points for 10 dollars when it was on sale this is very sad news.

[OtterX]

I actually believe that was one of my first cashouts on the program! haha

I remember I had just gotten the PS4 and I used it on Black Flag or Battlefield 4 to go with it.
I'm pretty sure I remember it being Black Flag though! (Great choice, as it became my favorite AC of all time)

[Daver]

I did not even know you could redeem points for money until few months ago. I thought it was only useless collectibles.

[OtterX]

That's a completely different program, that is Playstation Stars which operates right in the PS App.

Sony Rewards ran through credit cards, or just by making qualified Sony Store purchases. (Also stuff like movie ticket proof brought points)

[Daver]

Oh alright my mistake I misread.. since stars program is broken at the moment I thought it was related

[OtterX]

@Daver yea, no worries.

I hope Sony gives everyone some Playstation Star points for all this inconvenience, like 1200 ($5 store credit)

Many of us wanted to cash out those points during these great Summer sales. I was going to use mine on the DLC that I just bought, but thankfully resubbing PS+ Premium allowed me to get it w no cash out of pocket instead on the Sony Rewards program.

[repsahj]

why!?!?!?!?

[OhReginald]

Lol I literally found out about it last month and signed up....only to find out it was down for the majority of playstations biggest digital store sale.......and now they are shutting it down...thanks sony....

[Psychonaut85]

Well that sucks.

[Ethereal]

This is terrible news. Great program and been happy with a free game or two here and there and I have a good chunk of points stashed away. REALLY unhappy about them removing all physical games from the catalog without warning about a week ago. Fingers crossed the new program keeps the card relevant...

[mastershredder]

Unfortunately Sony has no loyalty to their established client base. That goes across all products (except for pro video and audio {and celebrities}). Playstation Rewards, Sony Rewards/Stars were basically the same half cocked bs project thought up as someone's year-in-planning project that flopped due to them not just reading the client base and asking what they want or listening to them. Instead they just dropped another random lopsided incentive program that no one asked for. They need to revise the interations and offerings like the classic PS GAP via a channel on PSN, OR Track all your current and previous history via your established online play history/login history/disk ID capture and retroactively establish a RECOGNIZED long term client relationship and offer incentives based upon that.

[jznrpg]

This is for digital games through PSN and since I don’t buy digital games I don’t care personally but I’m sure some will be disappointed l. I do believe you could get points without the credit card but I may be mistaken. I do have 5$ credit and I’ve only bought 2 games for my kids digitally while out of town but I’m never had the card so I assume it was for those digits games

[Skuletor]

Stingy

[Yppupdam]

I used my Sony card for everything, including fueling up my work vehicle, got a lot of gift cards to Home Depot and even grabbed a dualsense or two from the points. With this announcement, I removed it from Gpay and threw the card in a Drawer.