Update (4th March): And just like that, players have completed the PlayStation Player Celebration event by unlocking a final dynamic theme. This means collectively the community has started 675,000 PS4 games and unlocked 2.7 million Trophies.
Update (2nd March): The second goal has been achieved, with participating players unlocking a set of five avatars. You can learn more through here.
Update (27th February): It didn't take long for players to hit the first PlayStation Player Celebration goal, with the target being reached within 72 hours.
Original Article: After the excellent Ghost of Tsushima and The Last of Us: Part II themes handed out over the past couple of months, Sony is set to continue its hot streak of free content with the PlayStation Player Celebration. Sign-ups start today, and you can earn free PlayStation 4 themes, avatars, and even enter a contest to win some of the console's best games.
And quite literally all you'll need to do is keep playing PS4 games. The scheme itself starts on 24th February with Stage One of the community-driven contest, where contestants will need to play 125,000 titles and earn 500,000 Trophies. This is accumulatively across every PSN member who signs up, and if achieved, unlocks a static PS4 theme and an exclusive PSN avatar.
Goal Two unlocks as soon as those statistics have been reached, at which point players will then need to start 375,000 games and unlock 1.5 million Trophies. This goal comes with the reward of five exclusive PSN avatars, while the third and final goal comes with an exclusive PS4 dynamic theme featuring some of the console's best exclusive games. 675,000 games will need to be played and 2.7 million Trophies unlocked to reach that stage.
Better yet, you'll also be able to enter a contest on 17th March 2020 which will hand out some fancy prizes to the winners. There's a real-life PlayStation Platinum Trophy up for grabs, a PlayStation Store voucher, and vouchers codes for a number of PS4 games. You'll need to sign up for the PlayStation Player celebration in order to enter, however.
Will you be banding together with the community and trying to reach the three goals PlayStation has put in front of us? Let us know which one of the new avatars is your favourite in the comments below.
[source blog.us.playstation.com, via youtube.com]
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This is super cool, I hope they do more of this kind of community engagement stuff moving forwards.
If only players from outside of UK could participate...
@the_pathos
I just checked the T&Cs -
“Participating Countries/Regions” include: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, UK, and US.
@the_pathos I signed up just now, worked for me and I'm in the UK.
Neato. Yeah, this is the sort of engagement I want to see from these companies.
Hopefully Nintendo and Microsoft do something similar on a system-wide level with their platforms.
Pretty cool.
Also, I want that real life platinum trophy.
This is awesome! Hope they can continue events like this!!
Great stuff. Not sure why anyone that can wouldn’t sign up TBH
@KALofKRYPTON
Well, thanks. I can't even open the T&Cs.
In any case, my country obviously isn't on the list.
@Deadlyblack yeah that trophy with your name is pretty awesome a really good idea from Sony.
@Ralizah Microsoft actually does a lot of it with Game Pass Quests and its Microsoft Rewards system should you use Edge and Bing everywhere.
I made the transition two days ago and there's virtually no difference between Edge and Chrome. Installed every single extension I had and you can easily port passwords and what not to Edge. Bing isn't bat either, especially when you passively make points off of it.
Of course, it takes a lot to earn the points, but if you forget about it you'll rack up a lot passively. You can use them for sweepstakes, gift cards, Game Pass subs or charities.
Sounds like a pretty good idea! That dynamic theme for the final tier looks pretty nice!
@KALofKRYPTON Thanks for the info. Got an error every time I clicked on the T&C.
Btw, what's the difference between the first "Sign up here" that's at the top and the one at the bottom which says "Sign up now"?
PS5 reveal at the end of this as a reward? 🤔🤔🤔
@WanderingBullet Probably none...
@KALofKRYPTON Thanks. Having double signing up now. Will try again later or tomorrow.
Might as well sign up, got nothing to lose really.
Nice, I’ll sign up and get some themes. Plus that trophy I won’t get looks cool. Though I have to say, the free games I already own if I want them.... it’s not like they’re giving a good selection of you’re a longtime PS fan, which is likely Simone who will he signed up for that.
Just singed up, that plat would be amazing looks good, even the themes are pretty sweet too. So do we contribute as soon as we sign up or do we have to wait untill it actually starts? And when does it finish, it says prize draw on 17th of march so am assuming its got to close b4 then? Hopefully they will do this every month, or at least a prize draw for some goodies. They should have done this a long time ago, just something to give those trophies some meaning. They could do challenges like earn x amount of plats and all ppl who achieved one gets entered into plat prize draw for something good, then gold and so on, then just overall challenges.
Done! Bring 'em on!
I like this idea I think it is very cool!
I’m in. I still have the third series of Walking dead in my backlog so will play that when it kicks off. Apparently Concrete Genie is an easy Platinum too.
Nice, signed up. This was unknown to me, good journalism and information right here.
Would probably of missed this.
this is a great idea Sony & thanks for the heads up guys will sign up now.
I find it very hard to get excited about this. It’s an ok concept, but the rewards are kind of lame.
I already have the drake avatar and Joel's but all good still cool to receive those items.
This is progressing nicely. March 3rd and the Goal 3 games played number has been reached...and the trophies earned is almost there at 83%:
2,184,982/2,700,000 Trophies Earned
That’s 2.1 million trophies earned by REGISTERED participants in 9 days. Put that in your metrics pipe and smoke it.
@Arnna
I would agree that the rewards are nowhere near as enticing as what was offered with the trophy auction and raffle campaigns as this generation was getting ready to launch. Those were awesome! Unfortunately, as someone who isn't a trophy hunter, my chances were very slim.
This new generation ramp-up, we can't seem to get any information, much less decent promotions.
Edit:
I decided to look back at my gold trophies since those were the ones used for the auction and raffle campaigns. At the start of this generation I had a mere 13 golds. That seems low, but then I never went after the trophies. I now have 86 golds.
Got both of mine today 👍😀
That's stage 3 completed now.
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