Not to skip on Sony, as they also have announced a rewards program, but their system is in a beta status currently and the majority of its gamers are still waiting to hear updates on details and a launch date. Their beta actually opened in late October, but it didn't come out guns blazing and has been pretty quiet, even with MS going live with their program.
When you visit the link to http://rewards.xbox.com you can view the different ways you can earn points on your account through specific account level activities. Its a nice set up for the kick off of this program rewarding gamers for doing some simple tasks such as signing up or renewing a gold membership, purchasing an item from the Xbox Marketplace, or even just activating and using Netflix on their Xbox console.
I'm sure many gamers, including myself, had hoped a system would be put in place where we get rewards for not just the list above, but even better things such as just gaming in general. As there is already an established community of gamers chasing achievements and gamerscore, there have been discussions and hopes that gamers would be rewarded for these things as well. Wouldn't it be cool if you were a loyal gamer to a specific publisher and when you amassed 100% completion on 3 games you were awarded 400 MS points? This is just a simple thought, but I'm sure many players have had that thought at some point. It could happen one day with publishers collaborating with Microsoft to work this out. Until then though, we have the U-play reward system from Ubisoft and now the Microsoft Xbox Rewards.
As Sony is 2nd to the table for a rewards program, they can at least see what Microsoft is offering and possibly come up with something new and better to trump Xbox Rewards. Sony is in an interesting position and I would not consider it to be a bad one.
What would readers of this blog and gamers like to see in a rewards program?
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