Sony is once again bringing back its Days of Play community event for 2021, rewarding those who take part with many PlayStation 4 themes and exclusive avatars. Split across three stages, you'll need to play lots of PS5 and PS4 games (not too difficult) and then earn Trophies (again, not difficult for us lot). The event begins on 18th May 2021, and you can sign up through here. Registration is open until the end of this month, but you must have passed over your PSN details before a stage begins to earn the associated rewards.
For stage one, the community must play 2.4 million games and unlock 7.2 million Trophies. Doing so will reward a PS4 theme, but reach the first stretch goal of 3 million games played and 8.8 million Trophies unlocked and you'll be given three bonus PSN avatars. Stage two then tasks everyone with playing 2.9 million games and earning 8.5 million Trophies, which unlocks a further five PSN avatars themed around iconic PlayStation characters. Another bonus goal comes with three more PSN avatars.
Finally, stage three requires three million games to be played and nine million Trophies to be earned. Reaching these lofty goals unlocks one more PSN avatar and a PS4 dynamic theme. However, play 3.7 million games and earn 11 million Trophies and three more PSN avatars will be yours to keep. "Keep your eyes on the goal tracker to see the community progress towards each goal. Rewards for reaching the community goals of each stage will be delivered via PS4 and PS5 system notifications approximately 1-2 days after the stage ends."
Sony will also celebrate the community event with a Days of Play PS Store sale later this month. Will you be taking part? Start scribbling your plan of action down in the comments below.
[source blog.playstation.com]
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This is smart marketing, but definitely really cool stuff. Celebrating play is such a dope thing to see. So far removed from the gamer stigma, this made my morning! Yes!!! I am a gamer!!
Already signed up.
What about ps5 themes ?
I can't use a PS4 theme on my PS5, sunshine.
Looks like even though Sony aren't at E3 they're planning a June event around E3 time. PS5 - The Future of Gaming took place during Days of Play 2020, etc.
Looks like a lot of fun! I'm in!
@AJ1 What are those?
It would be cool if at the end every goal is met that everyone who took part got a specialised platinum trophy.
@LiamCroft 😂 I'm sure they exist in some universe, one can hope.
Waiting for that sweet ps plus discount
@Xenomorph_79 Avatars work on PS5. You wouldn’t get the couple themes though.
@luminous117 @Xenomorph_79 why assume that since you can’t use them now it will always be the case?
No harm in signing up and making everyone's chances of getting the themes a little better.
@Xenomorph_79 What’s not worth it? All you do is sign up and will get some avatars....
@Xenomorph_79 To each their own I guess. I liked themes but I like having a PS5 more and I’ll always take more avatars.
wtf why is South Africa excluded
EDIT: It let me sign up anyway
I can't sign up. It tells me to log in or sign up (I am already logged in...)
Sony should offer something like Microsoft rewards this is poor in comparison
@ i am in
@Alexface I have the exact same thing. It says I need to log in or sign up with Playstation and I'm alread signed in. Even changing to 'en-gb' won't work (my link automatically changed).
@Xenomorph_79 definitely think it will be an option to have custom themes in a future firmware update
This sort of thing is a fun way to increase engagement, IMO. I'm in. Thankfully, I have a PS4, so I'll benefit from the themes.
Just signed up, I will do my best to contribute to the goals set before us all.
@Mysterio thanks that worked!
Cool that Sony brought Days of Play back. Kind of a shame the PS5 doesn't have theme support but I can always use them on my PS4.
@Alexface I was running into the same problem. Just keep trying. After about the third or fourth time I was able to sign up.
@Xenomorph_79 Pretty sure VP of Platform Planning, Hideaki Nishino, mentions in some interview that they'd like to implement more customization options like themes.
In any case, not sure where you've seen they weren't going to do it. I thought it was more, "it'll have nothing like that at launch."
Right in the middle of a move and now they pull this. Sigh.
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interested in the sales, the rest not at all
I want a resident evil village theme & the avatar that was region locked
Wynaaaaaut? Platinums should count as 2 I'm about 3 hours away from getting FF8's though
Some (2) of the avatars are for ps5. Also, there's a limit of 6 trophies per day. Each game played must be played for at least 1 hour to count. @LiamCroft Read this in the rules if you wanted to add this?
So you win a theme and an avatar. Can't wait..!
I hope PS4 dual shock controller's go on sale. I'll buy one more.
With PS5 every games comes with its own theme!
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