Update: Before we grant rewards through our Bid for Greatness program, we authenticate the eligibility and Trophy count of all potential winning bidders, and if we believe that any potential winner did not comply with the terms and conditions of the program or that the potential winner’s trophies were not properly earned, we will disqualify that individual and award the item to the next highest, eligible bidder.
You know that Greatness Awaits, but did you know that you can bid on it? Today sees the launch of BidForGreatness.com, a one-of-a-kind auction house showcasing ultra-rare PlayStation memorabilia seen in PlayStation’s Greatness Awaits brand film during E3. If you win a bid, you’ll be the owner of an exclusive, real-life piece of PlayStation history.
Here’s how it works: You’ll log into BidForGreatness.com using your PSN ID. The site will tally all of your hard-earned Gold Trophies, and you’ll use them to bid on 15 unique items (don’t worry, you’ll keep the actual Trophies associated with your PSN ID). You’ll bid on the items you want using Gold Trophies and skip the ones you don’t. Each day will see a new item go up for bid for just 24 hours, so be sure to check back often!
Of course, you’ll want to think strategically. Spend all your Gold Trophies in one shot to try and score your dream item, or split your proceeds and go for several? The choice is yours. And the best part is, if you’re short on Gold Trophies you can earn some on your PS3 and PS Vita then come back to bid again.
Bid For Greatness runs until July 30th, and a new item will open (and close!) each day at 1:00pm Pacific Time. See below for a full list of all the epic loot. What are you going for?
| Day | Winner | Item | Game |
| Day 1 (7/16) | robg691 | Killzone: Shadow Fall | |
| Day 2 (7/17) | EDICIUS17 | The Last of Us | |
| Day 3 (7/18) | ARCHCHIMAIRA | PlayStation | |
| Day 4 (7/19) | MIKEKEESE | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | |
| Day 5 (7/22) | ROUGHDAWG4 | Diablo III | |
| Day 6 (7/23) | SHARKSFAN24 | PlayStation | |
| Day 7 (7/24) | ROUGHDAWG4 | Diablo III | |
| Day 8 (7/25) | M-EASY | inFAMOUS: Second Son | |
| Day 9 (7/26) | CAUCHY-SCHWARZ | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | |
| Day 10 (7/29) | PRINCE_AZRAK | Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag | |
| Day 11 (7/30) | BALLIN404 | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | |
| Day 12 (7/31) | DERDEUTSCHER | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | |
| Day 13 (8/1) | SHOE478 | Diablo III | |
| Day 14 (8/2) | HAKOOM | Killzone: Shadow Fall | |
| Day 15 (8/5) | ANDREW52286 | Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag | |
Can’t log in from Canada.
Seems that Day 1 is a loss for anyone in Canada. Hopefully Sony can rectify this before we lose too many bidding days/hours!
The item I want to bid on is a few days away, Sony please respond to these inquiries and fix this please =)
Errors aside, this is a great idea and I hope that you guys do this more often. Give some people who aren’t trophy lvl 40 a chance :)
Hi! I’m from Canada and i get this message when i try to participate We are sorry but, you are not eligible to participate based on your location. Bidding is only available to users in North American territories (USA, Canada, Mexico… My canadian money is good when i buy things from Sony so why can i participate then? I’m a very loyal fan who’s getting sad right now…
Aw lame. Very bad idea giving back the trophies of the losing bidders. Very poorly thought out.
Since the first auction is already over the 550 mark in bids I’m guessing that the minimum that any of these items will go for is now 750 trophies. There are 15 items up for auction and just glancing at leader board on PSN profiles there are over 50 US residents with at least 700 trophies. There are several with over 1,100 and three with over 2,000 and the leader has over 2,800.
I guess I’ll be keeping my 103…
this is an awesome idea that is poorly executed.
You will reward those same type of people that affected millions of your true die hard fans…hackers.
Trophy Hacking is rampant and I bet it will be those trophy hackers that win.
Also, being a mature gamer, I probably spend more money and less time actually being able to game to attain high levels. Case in point, I have bought 3 PS3s, two PSPs, and a Vita, hundreds of dollars on accessories, and own about 300 games. I also have to work full time and raise a family, so even though I love gaming and fully support this company with thousands of my hard earned money, I CANNOT PLAY GAMES 10 hours a day.
Great contest, but completely unfair.
A better option would be to do this randomly, or raffle style. I love Sony and everything they do, but this contest is not going to reward true Playstation fans….its going to reward hackers and cheaters who will then profit on EBay when one of your true fans buys what the cheater won.
Very disappointing that it is US only… ?
@104 Warfigher was banned from the PSN for hacking his trophies. I doubt he’ll be eligible.
This is a really clever promotion. It would be amazing if this became a permanent staple of the PSN community and included smaller, less bombastic items to give us non-hardcore trophy hunters a chance at winning something and giving everyone just one more reason to keep buying Playstation games.
“Of course, you’ll want to think strategically. Spend all your Gold Trophies in one shot to try and score your dream item, or split your proceeds and go for several?”
According to the terms, this is not the case. Losers will get back all their trophies to bid on the next item. Seriously? No penalty for bidding all of your trophies every day? Better get out your thinking caps, strategy fans.
@ 90
I bid 400, got outbid and got 400 trophies back. They don’t need to say it, cause it happened to me.
@ 96
HI MIKE!!!
@107 I think my point still stands. There are still way more people with 700+ trophies to keep this out of the reach of your average player.
Great promo, really a shame there couldn’t be a sweepstakes like option, those of us without a few hundred gold trophies will have no chance, it would be fun if each of our trophies was an entry and the items were given away raffle style. Us poor gamers with kids don’t have the time to rack up a few hundred gold trophies… ;-) But still, a very cool promotion.
Awesome idea, but I agree, a bit poorly executed. I consider myself about as hardcore as they come, and am a pretty staunch supporter of Sony themselves. I’ve made multiple PS3/PSP purchases, as well as being a day 1 Vita owner and own hundreds of games across all platforms. I probably game more than most, and am approaching 5k trophies. All that being said I only have 155 golds which means I shouldn’t have even bothered with opening the website. They should have made it incremental bids( i.e. you bid 5 golds, you’re now in front). I realize that would cause a sniping war, but honestly, at least that would have given the vast majority of us an actual chance. *sigh*
At any rate, good luck @Admiralvic!
Just so people know, this is for US only and not NA as you may see in an error message.
Also, as feedback, this doesn’t really end up being much of auction. According to the terms, if you bid all your Gold trophies on an item one day, if you don’t win the auction, you can bid those trophies again. Since the items are not sold concurrently, this basically means you should always bid your max trophies each day until you win. So this is less of an auction than an opportunity for the highest trophy earners to win something just by participating.
I try to log in to the site and get this message,
“We are sorry but, you are not eligible to participate based on your location. Bidding is only available to users in North American territories (USA, Canada, Mexico).”
I am located in Canada! My PSN account is located in Canada! Why can’t I bid :(
I DON’T GAME FOR TROPHIES..GOLD ONES IN THE LEAST!….I GAME FOR FUN!…. TROPHIES BLEHHHH!!!!
Until I read these comments, I didn’t know there was such a thing as hacking to create trophies. How the heck do they do that so that it actually syncs to the server?
I hope Sony thought about that aspect when they designed this and found ways to circumvent any of those limp phonies. The rules state the winner has to verify their identity and address so I’m guessing that 90% of the cheaters use fake names and addresses anyway. As for game sharers, yes, those cheaters will probably be able to get in, but hopefully they’ll end up beating each other into oblivion trying to keep the reward.
I think SCEA will rethink their methodologies and retool should they ever offer another contest like this.
SADLY WHAT THIS IS …IS ELITIST CLASS CRAPOLA!
Damn my year of going in hard on the trophy hunt does not look like it yielded me enough trophies to bid on anything.. **sad face**
This is BRILLIANT!
Can we please continue this bidding system well into the future??
I don’t think they should take the trophies away indefinitely if one gets outbid but perhaps implement a number of auctions completed or an amount of time lapsed before that person can bid again.
If they keep track of who spends however many trophies and keep the auction alive with future events, this could be a really cool incentive for earning trophies and it would include a lot more people because you wouldn’t just have the people in the top 300 only being able to win bids. I really hope this isn’t just a 1 time thing because it’s a really cool idea.
Intensely lame.
Why not bring back the old User Rewards Program that was scrapped?
Ok so the site won’t let me sign in or bid because it says it’s only available in North America and lists US, Canada, and Mexico as the eligible countries. Problem is I’m Canadian, in Canada, and my account is Canadian.
Just like the rest of the Canadians here, can’t log in =(
I’m also getting the message that I’m not eligible for bidding but I live in Canada.
I hope they will fix it before tom cause I want to bid for the infected costume.
Awesome idea, bit my 63 seems to be useless when people are blowing 300 on the first item which seems stupid to me. With people like Duck 360 that has 2131 more Gold Trophies for bidding, its kind of annoying that people with no lives benefit from this.
Well, to put a positive spin on all this, at least nobody is whining/threatening about “where is the store update, Grace?!!!” Lol.
Here, let’s try this again.
CANADIAN PLAYSTATION GAMERS:
See post 84. It is ONLY U.S. GAMERS.
There is nothing for Sony to fix. I don’t like to be mean, but this is a perfect example of what’s wrong with society.
PEOPLE DON’T READ.
Oh great seem like nobody in Canada can participate… cause you know, Canada it not part of NA only US is -_- Was really happy to finally have some use for trophy, got 485 gold trophy so was really hype to bid on something, but no got c*** block by Sony on this one. Really hope they fix it for Canada or change their crap for this been for all NA really been only US,
I’m giving up. If you people want to waste your time and try to get into the site/contest and you’re from Canada, then go ahead. I’ve made two posts now saying to read the terms of service and I’ve copied and pasted the appropriate paragraph for even easier use.
Don’t say I didn’t tell you so.
Getting this message when I tried to log in now:
We are sorry but, you are not eligible to participate based on your location. Bidding is only available to users in the United States of America.
Looks like it is USA only. Not a big deal since only like the top 3 Canadians had a snowball’s chance in hell to win anyways.
Great idea…but extremely disappointing that its only for the USA. I love you Sony but wheres the Canada love…feeling a little left out here. I’m sure the rest of the planet does too.
Nice promo, too bad just those who have 50+ plats can get a real chance to win anything. =/
Hey SLY12, Apparently you don’t read either. They are giving us two different, contradictory message. When attempting to log in with a Canadian PSN account, it says the following.
“We are sorry but, you are not eligible to participate based on your location. Bidding is only available to users in North American territories (USA, Canada, Mexico).”
People can read, but the message is inconsistent. It isn’t as simple as you choose to believe.
Never mind. They’ve fixed it. Now you can be smug Sly.
Another reason why I wish I had tried to get more trophies than achievements… :\
@132, Sly12, lol! Might as well give up. You should know by now that the only people who read don’t need help and the people who need help don’t read, hence always needing help I learned that by reading this blog every day for years.
People need to game less, read more. But then they wouldn’t qualify for this contest anyway, lol.
@SLY12 It’s just like others have said, at first it was for NA but now they changed it to US only. It’s just suck, instead of just allowing us to participate they AGAIN decide to block us out. Really is it that hard to accept ALL of NA in Sony contest? Sony is to cheap to pay shipping charge? Cmon most people in canada would pay them just to participate lol
This is a good idea, but not implemented very well. There are only fifteen items. You have to be one of those people that plays video games all day, every day to even have a shot. Or you have to have a bunch of trophies that you hacked.
@ 139: An earlier comment by another poster said all along it said North America, but if you read the terms of service, its says:
2. PARTICIPATION ELIGIBILITY
The Bid for Greatness program is an auction based rewards program (“Program”) through which PlayStation gamers can redeem trophies, earned during gameplay, to bid for exclusive items and rewards available only on this Site (“Rewards”). The Program is open only to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia. Individuals must be 18 years of age or older participate in the Program. Employees of SCEA, its affiliates and related parties, along with members of their household, are not eligible to participate in the Program. The use of automated services, scripts, or other machines is strictly prohibited and will result in the termination of that account holder’s access to the Site.
I’m out. Peace.
if only i could use my bronze trophies
From the Tems:
“Gold trophies that are being used to bid on a certain Reward will be frozen from the time that the auction for that Reward has commenced until the conclusion of the bidding period for that Reward. After an auction has concluded, the number of gold trophies of the winning bidder that were bid on the Reward will be subtracted from that bidder’s bid-eligible trophy count, and may not be used again for bidding on any future auction. The gold trophies of bidders who did not win the auction will be released back into their bid-eligible trophy count for use in future auctions.”
So there is no penalty for just going all-in with your trophies.. except that you may win something and not use them for the rest of the auction.
So us normal folk with a mere 30 trophies just need to walk away and hope next time Sony:
– makes it a raffle
– makes all items up for bid at the same time so bids must be spread out
I guess I’m one of the few who doesn’t have a prayer, but is not exhibiting sour grapes? This one-time contest is to reward excellence. I know we don’t do that much anymore in America, but once upon a time we believed in winners and losers and losers then strove harder. This was before they gave awards to people for “just participating.”
Almost everyone who ever sent me a friend request was several levels higher than me, which made me mad and made me try to be a better gamer and I’m getting there, although still too paltry for this contest. But I admire the gamers with high trophy levels and 100 or more plats, if they got them the old-fashioned way.
This is a wonderful idea for the community but could have been set up a lot better. Here’s an idea. instead of bidding it should be done with a weekly contest of trophies, either by trophy count or trophy points. Every week a item will up for grabs and it’s up to the players to earn as many trophies as he/she can. When one week elapse, the contest will be over and the trophy count/points get reset to zero thus starting a new contest with the same procedure. That way everyone will have a fair chance at winning these prizes no matter what stats they are.
Here’s the trophy point legend
Bronze 1 Point
Silver 3 Points
Gold 5 Points
Platinum 10 Points
I have more trophies than you lot and it’s just U.S ONLY???
LAME!
@ 144
Trophy count =/= skill. Like if you stick to movie games, sports games, children’s games, and buy them in bulk, then you can be a high trophy level. In fact play Terminator Salvation is worth more in this contest (since there are like 11 golds), than playing say Fat Princess (0 golds) or CoD Black Ops 1 (71 trophies, but only 1 gold). Winning a prize is just a testate to how much time you have to game, which is perfectly alright, though don’t mistake this for a difference in skill.
Canadian participation in this might partially be limited because of Canadian gaming laws. Just like the Millennium ACT in the US prevents Canadians from using many of the entertainment apps on the PS3.(DRM) sad state of affairs but Americans like control of their stuff just like we Canadians like control of our stuff.
@148, although that is true in theory, is it really true in practice? How many people who play hundreds of games to get thousands of trophies are going to just play stupid little games? At the lower levels, sure. But people who have 100 + plats? I don’t think so.
But thanks for the tip on Terminator Salvation ;-)