After a nearly one-and-a-half month-long outage, PlayStation Stars is finally back online for members worldwide. The loyalty program for PlayStation users initially went down in early June for unexplained reasons and started returning on a region-by-region basis three weeks later.
As Sony's equivalent to Microsoft Rewards, PlayStation Stars operates in a very similar fashion. Members in eligible regions can sign up to the program for free on the PlayStation mobile app, and earn points from game purchases and completing tasks, which can then be redeemed to buy content on the PlayStation Store. However, the program started facing major issues during the 2024 Days of Play promotional period around June 5, eventually leading to a full-blown outage. Sony didn't confirm the reasons behind it, but the outage lasted over 25 days, exceeding even the PlayStation Network blackout in 2011.
Sony's loyalty program, PlayStation Stars, has recently been dealing with some major issues that are yet to be resolved as of mid-June 2024.
After the 25-day long service disruption, Sony finally confirmed in early July that PlayStation Stars would return via a staggered regional rollout. The loyalty programs' operations were first resumed in Asia,...
