Nearly
one
month
after
suddenly
going
offline,
the
PlayStation
Stars
reward
scheme
is
coming
back.
We
still
don’t
know
what
happened,
though.

The
PlayStation
Stars
system,
which
offers
rewards
for
completing
tasks
and
buying
games,
randomly
went
down
nearly
a
month
ago.
What’s
strange
about
this
is
that
Sony
didn’t
actually
address
its
disappearance
The
closest
thing
to
an
official
comment
that
the
community
got
came
from
a
few
Sony
engineers
on
X/Twitter
who
replied
to
eager
gamers
asking
them
about
the
issue.
Even
the
engineers
haven’t
stated
what
the
problem
is,
however,
and
have
offered
contradictory
information
on
whether
customers
Points
totals
will
be
intact
and
whether
purchases
made
over
the
last
month
will
be
counted.

Some
smart
folk
did
manage
to
find
a
few
ways
to
check
if
Stars
was
running
in
the
background
and
seemingly
confirmed
that
purchases
and
even
campaigns
were
still
be
counted.

Which
brings
us
to
today.
Sony
has
finally
addressed
the
PS
Stars
outage
in
rather
lowkey
fashion,

updating
the
official
PS
Stars
page
with
the
following
message:
“PlayStation
Stars
will
be
returning
soon
in
phased
regional
rollouts.
Thank
you
for
your
patience
and
we
look
forward
to
welcoming
you
back.”

The
phase
rollout
portion
of
the
plan
is
odd,
and
to
me
suggests
that
they
aren’t
fully
confident
of
having
fixed
the
issue.

Following
the
update,
users
in
Asia
have
reported
that
PS
Stars
has
come
back
online
for
them.
They
haven’t
noted
any
major
changes
to
the
system,
but
have
commented
that
their
purchases
while
Stars
was
offline
seem
to
have
been
counted.