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[Hudo]

I guess ff11 from 2002 still more profitable coz square keeps it going.

News  Thread 'Square Enix considered ending Final Fantasy 11 in 2024, but player interest was high enough to keep it alive even after 20+ years'

May 19, 2025

Square Enix recently celebrated Final Fantasy XI's 23rd anniversary by announcing big updates planned for 2025 and beyond. Among other tweaks and additions, the MMORPG will be getting a much-requested character race change feature, as well as adjustments meant to make solo-play more comfortable. Although these announcements paint an optimistic picture of the game's future, FFXI producer and director Yoji Fujito says that in another timeline, the game could have ended in 2024...

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Dat longevity

FF11 is also more fun than the entirety of Sony's PS5 first-party lineup.

 

[Bojanglez]

Shame it's over, but to be honest I have gotten a bit tired and lazy in going into the app to opt-in to everything manually. Would have been better to have auto opt-in and have it available in their console. But I guess the whole point of this is to drive app usage and give them another marketing vector, maybe they have got people habitually using it to the point where it has served its purpose.

 

[Forsete]

RIP

 

[nikos]

EDIT: Wrong thread.

 

[Valonquar]

LOL I hadn't checked my stars points in a loooong time. Had 17k points which I redeemed into $65 wallet credit!

 

[Sweden85]

Well I've gotten some hundreds of dollars back from purchases..sorry to see it go.

 

[Generic]

If Sony is moving away from exclusive games , the very thing that kept people in their ecosystem, you'd expect them to invest more heavily in services that build long-term loyalty. But instead, they're failing to offer compelling services, or even scaling back the few they have. It seems completely irrational.

How much time until they cancel PS+ Extra/Premium?

 

[ComputerBlue]

Scumbag Sony at it again.

 

[hououinkyouma00]

Another garbage feature bites the dust. Creating FOMO so you can collect useless trinkets and collectibles. They were stingy as fuck with the coins too.

So free money is garbage?

 

[Coconutt]

I actually liked Playstation stars managed to get some psn credit with it, truly a sad day.

 

[Mr Hyde]

So free money is garbage?

No. Free money is great. PS stars however, is garbage. Which the majority seems to think too, hence Sony is shutting it down.

 

[Begleiter]

I got decent use out of it but no one else of my friend list did, from what I could tell. Probably didn't have the engagement they wanted. There were some especially pathetic campaigns for pushing Veilguard and Assassin's Creed that will run a while yet that struck me as an odd sort of desperate.

 

[GHound]

Gotta make sure people can't redeem a massive $5 credit for their PS wallet for every $125 they spend.

 

[DeepEnigma]

FF11 is also more fun than the entirety of Sony's PS5 first-party lineup.

Helldivers 2 slaps on the daily.

 

[DeVeAn]

Closed that shit so fast. What a waste besides a few few gift cards.

 

[ToneyJ]

Can't really relate to the people calling this garbage. I don't care about trophies or those weekly assignments and stuff, put I still managed to get two €5 psn vouchers through the stars program. No idea why one would complain about that.

those people are idiots basically.

 

[hemo memo]

It's not available here anyway, so nothing really changed.

 

[MiguelItUp]

Lmao, I forgot this even existed.

 

[Hudo]

Helldivers 2 slaps on the daily.

FF 11 has cat girls, tho.

 

[DeepEnigma]

FF 11 has dudes pretending to be cat girls, tho.

FTFY

 

[Hudo]

FTFY

My favorite hentai artist is some 40+ year old balding dude.

Separate the art from the artist, my friend.

 

[Shockwave_Fox]

Damn, I am 300 points away from a £5 voucher with nothing I want to buy.....

Only reason I got PS+ essentials again after the price rise was because I had store credit from this.

 

[DeepEnigma]

My favorite hentai artist is some 40+ year old balding dude.

Separate the art from the artist, my friend.

I'm talking about the gamers behind their cute ewu avatars.

 

[SyberWolf]

"As the current version of the program is ending, there will be changes to the PlayStation Stars program over the coming months. For current PlayStation Stars members, this means:

PlayStation Stars End Date:
This version of PlayStation Stars officially ends on November 2, 2026 and will no longer be available after this date.

Digital Collectibles:
You can still keep your digital collectibles even if you cancel your PlayStation Stars membership and after this version of PlayStation Stars ends."

to me it looks like they will do a full reboot of "playstation stars" they keep mentioning this version.

 

[tanners]

because it actually first meant for NFT's
But NFT quickly becomes dumpster fire so theres no point keeping PS stars

 

[robotman5]

Barely ever used it but R.I.P

 

[onQ123]

When your Loyalty Program isn't loyal

 

[CLW]

 

[Punished Miku]

You guys really had to soften the headline again lol?

 

[Giallo Corsa]

You guys really had to soften the headline again lol?

 

[mitch1971]

I had a few £5 off vouchers for this stars program. I bet the nerds on the reddit forums are pulling their hair out over this. Some of the people would spend hours even days following up with customer service about a virtual trinket. I bet this was one of the reasons they got rid.

 

[Mod of War]

You guys really had to soften the headline again lol?

It was copied directly from the article.

How about we don't manipulate the headlines? Deal?

 

[Punished Miku]

It was copied directly from the article.

How about we don't manipulate the headlines? Deal?

Fair point. I just thought it was funny. Whatever you say goes obviously.

 

[Super Lemon Drop]

I have some questions, if I may...

How much money did you have to spend to earn that $5 here and $5 there?
How much money did you spend to earn $60 or $70 in your wallet?
Why couldn't people engage with the program through the console? To my understanding, it was app based or site based only.

 

[MacReady13]

If Sony is moving away from exclusive games , the very thing that kept people in their ecosystem, you'd expect them to invest more heavily in services that build long-term loyalty. But instead, they're failing to offer compelling services, or even scaling back the few they have. It seems completely irrational.

The Playstation arrogance is back, and I'm not looking at sticking around if this is the case going forward. This was a nice little incentive to buy games digitally. Using that voucher was OK when you had built up enough points but now they wanna take it away? Fucking stupid.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

See?, PlayStation doesn't need "loyalty Programs". PlayStation fans are loyal just because PlayStation is that good.

 

[Mod of War]

Fair point. I just thought it was funny. Whatever you say goes obviously.

I changed this one from the "manchild rages" bait at the same time.

Funny too or naw? Need pointers for my stand up.

 

[consoul]

I look forward to the next loyalty program:
PlayStation Crypto Coin

 

[Punished Miku]

I changed this one from the "manchild rages" bait at the same time.

Funny too or naw? Need pointers for my stand up.

I didnt see that one. Sounds fair?

 

[falling into hell]

I won't miss it I just got one or two dlc for free. It was only worth it if you bought many digital games.

 

[lh032]

i dont understand why you launch a new loyalty program but show half ass effort.


remove always online PSN requirement and you will attract and retain more people

 

[DenchDeckard]

Didn't this only just get introduced like a year or two ago?

 

[lillars]

How is people saying it was garbage? I redeemed Many $5 psn credits with this program.

Agreed. I think it equated to 4% cash back if you redeemed it for the PSN credit. It will suck if they just never replace it. I used it quite a bit.

 

[Pasta la Vista]

Didn't this only just get introduced like a year or two ago?

2022 I believe. Yeah so not very long at all. They never really advertised it either, it was like introduced I think in like some blog post. Very low effort, probably why so many people didn't even know it existed.

 

[Shaki12345]

It's a shit system compared to Microsoft Rewards anyway.

Lots of missions don't even work anyway. It's time consuming, slow and unreliable.

They should look at what Microsoft is doing and also reward purchases.

 

[LavitzSlambert]

Just redeemed my points like a week ago for some store funds, this sucks. Gave me at least some extra incentive to purchase digitally.

I suggest anyone that hasn't downloaded it to try to see if you got some points for your digital purchases to get some store credit.

EDIT: nevermind guess they are ending new sign ups TODAY, well fuck thanks for the warning Sony, shitbag company

The new trend is to announce things with zero warning, especially with how fast news travels. Companies are afraid to give a heads up because they know people will take advantage of a good deal. Giving them a timeline just creates urgency and draws attention when they'd rather bury this news.


For some reason I thought this happened last year, so I've been redeeming $5 credits as soon as possible in case they canned it. It was a good program but along with Nintendo, it seems like they don't feel they need extra encouragement to push digital. My guess is the administration costs of the program is significantly more than the credits people are earning.

 

[adamsapple]

I changed this one from the "manchild rages" bait at the same time.

Funny too or naw? Need pointers for my stand up.

As a rule of thumb, folks should just straight up avoid using childish / fanboy rhetoric kind of headlines, just very off-putting.

 

[rkofan87]

as a fan who used the wallet funds i say booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

 

[Conflict NZ]

How is people saying it was garbage? I redeemed Many $5 psn credits with this program.

Because it wasn't a return for every dollar spend and the games I buy on PS were essentially never a part of it. Compared to Nintendo and MS which reward you for every purchase it was by far the worst. MS rewards you just for playing games. I earn ~$25 in rewards per month just for playing gamepass games.

 

[ReBurn]

I've claimed several $5 PS gift cards with this so it's been ok for me.