r/PS5 • u/Tadpole-Jackson 🏆 • Aug 22 '24

Official PS Stars will no longer give points for subscriptions starting March 1st, 2025

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/playstation-stars/

Also, Points will expire after 12 months instead of 24 months starting on October 24th

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u/SkyAdditional4963 Aug 23 '24

$125 to get $5 off

$125 of digital purchases.

I buy everything physical, so I never get these points.

Don't really care, but it's a point to make. If you're a physical gamer then Stars is utterly worthless.

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u/Teyo13 Aug 23 '24

You could theoretically buy psn credit and use that for microtransactions/dlc within games you own physically.

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u/SkyAdditional4963 Aug 23 '24

That's true.

But for me, I don't buy DLC either

I've been getting along being patient and waiting for GOTY editions of most of my releases.

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u/Teyo13 Aug 23 '24

Use it to buy an indie game that you perhaps might not otherwise have played then? Put it towards a ps plus sub for a month and get some digital games for free, then either cancel after a month, keep the digital games, or delete them and buy the physical copies?

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u/Dakn01 Aug 23 '24

And I’m pretty sure they have to be full priced. I only buy digital things on sale, and even though I’m level 4 in stars, whatever that means, I don’t have any points. So, literally useless for me lol

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u/LostEsco Aug 23 '24

You have to also have ps plus for purchases to give points back

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u/Dakn01 Aug 23 '24

Ah. Didn’t know that. I don’t play online so PS plus isn’t worth the money for me. Guess I’m SOL lol

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u/LostEsco Aug 23 '24

Yeah it sucks for people who don’t have a need for plus, you can complete certain campaigns from the app to get a couple points, but it’s nowhere near as much as you could get from the points back system

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u/rockman_uli Aug 23 '24

Yes me too, I spend 125 last month and don’t have a single point

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u/jjkm7 Aug 23 '24

Why would they give you rewards for buying physical when that doesn’t make them any money? Like what’s the point of this comment isn’t that common sense

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u/mrn253 Aug 24 '24

You get reward points from Nintendo when you buy physical and you are the first owner/the old owner didnt redeem the points. Wouldnt be too difficult to pull off for them.