Bid for Greatness Opens, Own a Piece of PlayStation History

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Bid for Greatness Opens, Own a Piece of PlayStation History

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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 Black Hand Outfit Killzone: Shadow Fall
Day 2 (7/17) EDICIUS17 Infected “Clicker” Costume The Last of Us
Day 3 (7/18) ARCHCHIMAIRA End Scene Concept Art PlayStation
Day 4 (7/19) MIKEKEESE Dragonborn Dagger The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Day 5 (7/22) ROUGHDAWG4 Witch Doctor Mojo Diablo III
Day 6 (7/23) SHARKSFAN24 Crane Scene Concept Art PlayStation
Day 7 (7/24) ROUGHDAWG4 Witch Doctor Cursed Skull Diablo III
Day 8 (7/25) M-EASY Delsin Rowe’s Outfit inFAMOUS: Second Son
Day 9 (7/26) CAUCHY-SCHWARZ Dragonborn Shield The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Day 10 (7/29) PRINCE_AZRAK Captain Kenway’s Cutlass Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag
Day 11 (7/30) BALLIN404 Dragonborn Sword The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Day 12 (7/31) DERDEUTSCHER Dragonborn Stalhrim Mace The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Day 13 (8/1) SHOE478 Witch Doctor Ceremonial Garb Diablo III
Day 14 (8/2) HAKOOM Helghast Sniper Outfit Killzone: Shadow Fall
Day 15 (8/5) ANDREW52286 Captain Kenway’s Outfit Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag

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  • Very Interesting I like the clicker costume the most. But all of them look really cool I wonder which ones I qualify for. with the amount of trophys I have.

  • @5. I can relate. I don’t have nearly enough trophies to win anything. :p

  • WHATS UP THAT THE ONLY US BILLSHEET
    I’m an very easy going person. But this.. we get ripped on everything!
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    I’m LITERALLY 5 minutes from the border!!!!!

    If you guys are going to do keep doing this like you have, give Canada our own friggin blog.

  • @149, omigosh, you win smartest commenter of the day award. Of course that’s the reason. If you do even limited reading on various developer forums (like Bethesda) you’ll learn that people in other countries are always complaining because they have different laws about gaming and contests. Or read the EU Playstation blog. People in, say Latvia, complain because they can’t participate in contests like the UK can.

  • Do Playstation hate canadian? I suppose so… this is lame as hell, why can’t we participe? Frankly, I don’t mind paying the shipping, this is really lame and frustrating. It seems they couldn’t care less about us…

  • Another US only contest

    Awesome idea though. Those are really awesome things up for grabs.

  • its a new age when digital rewards for a video game can be used to obtain REAL things,

  • Hey Morgan, I’ve tried several times unlocking the secret items on the PS4 “Greatness Awaits” YouTube page, in which the prize for doing it is getting a free PS3 Dynamic Theme. Both times I received the same PSN code, and both times the code doesn’t work (I get the error: “This Prepaid Card has already been consumed.”) The comments on this YouTube page is flooded with everyone else having problems like this as well. Any help?

  • Lol, I’m amazed at how many Canadians are outraged by this.

  • @ 149

    It is. Look at Hakoom and you’ll see what I am getting at. If you count all of Hakoom’s movie, children’s, point and click, trivia, known easy (like platinuming Sly 1), light novel 100%’s, then you’ll come up with a sum of roughly 178 (I counted this just now, though others might think some games are easier and might come up with a higher total) of his nearly 600 100%’s fall under this bracket. That is nearly 33% of all the games he has done have been of this grouping of games that don’t really take skill to beef up your trophy score.

    Look at enough people and you’ll see a lot of higher level people with movie games and “bad” games they simply played for trophies.

  • Oh how sad, I only have 51 gold trophies, not even close to the minimum bid. :(

  • I never though I could have so much gold….and still feel poor. I fear this may have a negative drawback on Sony. Its a neat idea…but odd. Sad to think most of these items will rot away in some older woman’s basement. (Insert joke about middle aged single virign men living with their mothers, for those who missed it)

    still. Really cool idea. Just would be nice to make it More accessible to those of us with no hope. Maybe some in game content for littlbe big planet? Just as a thought. For anyone who puts a bid in but doesnt win. Because with SO MANY people bidding, and SO FEW rewards….the widespread frustration may be a bit backlash. High hopes though, just…worried for you sony

  • BladeZ_L_StrykeR

    Well the outfit now is at 975, and I thought I had quite a lot with 443. Hoping that non winning bidders cannot reuse those trophies again on another bid, or I dont have a shot at anything.

  • Im going to take it these auctions are only for hardcore gamers. Us casual players are left in the dust. 975 gold trophies on first auction, with 20 hrs left. I need to quit my job to become playstation rich, lol.

  • Oh Lord!
    the current bidding item (not interested, but for reference) is almost at 1,000 gold trophies!
    I only have 36! And I thought that was a lot!

  • LMAO, I have 85 gold trophies, the first item is going on bid for 975. The only people that are going to win any of this swag are those without lives. This should have been a raffle system…

  • Canadian gold is clearly without value.

  • Canadian, canadian, and the rest of the world? :(

  • Once again Canadians get screwed. How disappointing. Maybe one day those running these contests will learn that there are people beyond the U.S. boarders.

  • As many have already said, it’s a great idea, but horribly implemented. I love playing video games as much as anybody else does. The problem is, I’m a college student who has a job… and a life! I can’t sit there and spend 8 or 10 hours a day playing video games for trophies that, until now, meant nothing.

    I would absolutely love to own some of those items. I’m crazy about video games if you get me on the right ones. But I have… maybe 50 gold trophies if I’m lucky. Thanks for throwing the idea out there. My bet is that most of these items will go to losers who spend 10 hours a day playing bleh games to boost their trophy scores–people who probably won’t even care for the items, or turn around and sell them for real money!

  • Sony, its not too late to change this to a raffle system. Those of us with a small number of gold trophies should at least have a small chance of winning. Everyone would still have to decide which items to put their limited number of gold trophies into. the auction idea is awesome but it just needs a small tweak.

  • @169, if you can’t do it then don’t complain. The contest is meant to reward those who take the time to play Playstation games. People do not become great at something by not investing the time. Just like you invest 4 years for an undergrad the trophy hunters invest for gaming. They prefer gaming to other activities. It’s harsh to call them losers for doing what they love.

  • I guess this is one way to reward Greatness — that is the top 1% of the PS population sans those with trophy hacks. Personally, I think from a promotional standpoint Sony is better off sponsoring a gaming competition for those prizes; maybe in combination with the old Rewards Program. At least those of us who stand no chance of winning can participate from the start and at the very least spectate and cheer on our favorites. As it stands with this auction, only a small handful can really actively participate, the rest of us are turned off after seeing the current bid, I know I was.

  • smoothboarder540

    @171 It definitely is harsh to call these people losers. But what they do is pretty unhealthy. Especially if they have jobs. That leaves basically no time to do anything else. How can you get exercise or be social in real life when you play video games all day. I mean, comparing years of College to years of gaming is just a little crazy. There is no denying which one betters your life. I prefer to play video games over other things too, but these people take it to a ridiculous level.

  • this would be really cool if I knew people weren’t hacking trophies .. I saw guy on psnprofiles with a ton of platinums so checked his list.. he had a game in three different languages and all 3 platinums occurred at the same time … man do I hate cheaters

  • alot of people have trophies they cheated for before the glitch was fixed longg ago, i see a bid of almost 1000 gold trophies, never seen anyone with that amount, i think only cheaters will win anything, i have 5 plat trophies and 42 gold ones, and i have more than anyone on my friends list

  • seriously, im a trophy whore, it took me over 50 hours to get a plat trophy for assassins creed 3, i hunt trophies, really for games i like, and im not even close to that many gold ones lol, well every go out and buy tons of crap used kids games and get to trophy hunting quick if you want to stand a chance with these hackers, i really hope they check the person’s profile and etc for any funny activity or weird trophy lists, ive seen tons of these hackers not even have 100% of trophies on games but still have a plat on it and the game has no dlc so thats not why its not 100%

  • Surprise surprise, another sweet contest that’s only available in the states. Why is this not open to Canadian residents? Did you know that people have Playstations in other countries? People in other countries game, I myself have over 2000 trophies and there are more Canadians on my friends list with even more. I would really like to know why we are excluded from the good contests, because quite frankly we’re starting to feel a little unappreciated up here!

  • Love it. Great job Sony! Wish I hadn’t quit gaming in ’09 now. Guess I haven’t quit but sure don’t play much if anything these last 4 years. Hopefully we’ll see more promotions similar to this. Love the idea!

  • It’s is a cool idea, but almost impossible for the majority of people. Minimum bid is 975 trophies? Seriously? That’s insane!

  • Cool idea but Canada is getting shafted. I can’t even sign in on the website to tell me I’m ineligible. Sorry you have to pay for shipping Sony but you really shouldn’t exclude us since we support you as well.

  • I guess this auction is more for the Hackers and Importers with no life.

  • I think its a bogus promotion.. it only really caters to those who are trophy hounds and that rules out a large majority of gamers… thanks for giving the rest of us a chance at winning, Sony… i’ve had all Sony systems almost since Day One and i’m pretty much ruled out of anything like this… trophies should be a key to getting stuff for everyone, like themes or avatars or DLCs, not just for those who go after them exclusively… Some of us don’t have 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to go after trophies… just terrible….

  • If Sony gave any concern to banning active PSN ID’s with hacked trophy lists/ saves then this auction might actually mean something.

    I play the games I wanna play. The people playing kid games they normally wouldn’t or double dipping with VITA games just to increase their level makes me laugh AT them. It’s pointless and its become a big time wasting addiction for those obsessed with showcasing their e-rep/ e-peens. Newsflash: only other trophy addicts care and 10-20+ years from now, when these don’t mean jack because another better console has come out or Sony ceases to exist, you will regret the time you spent achieving the platinum for Hannah Montana.

  • dont care for whats being offered but Im happy trophies actually have purpose now.. i hope stuff like this is done in the future again

  • this is amazing and hope they continue doing things like this that actually give trophies more value

  • there is a notation that not all gold trophiues will be reflected on the site, idk if that means duplicate games from imports dont count, that would be a great idea, but I know for a fact that people levels above me have messaged me asing me for my save files because a game was too hard, and Im sure they got some guy taht was willing to sell it to them. Thought I might even have a chance with 443, if they wanted to amke it more fair, they could not allow you to reuse your trophies after bidding on something and not winning, would give others more of a chance to snag something after say someone bids 975 and winning bid is 1000 well thats the item they went after, but they will jsut continute on down, so really its the top 16 people who know about it will get items.

  • Great Idea, too bad there is no “love” for Norwegian users :(

  • This only for US residents or US PSN accounts and EU residents? :D

  • Yeah the system is really broken, I’ve spent thousands of hours gaming on the PS3 but it doesn’t mean I’ve unlocked 1000 gold trophies. I only have 103. Should definitely have been a raffle system instead.

  • I have dreamed of this day where our Playstation trophies Is going to come in handy. Thank you Plastation & Sony!!!!!

  • Huh. Sony hasn’t come out and said anything? No replays? Really. Guess its a tails between their legs approach. Still a loyal Sony fan. But they pull stunts sometimes a little quick, they should’ve done some more market testing on this one. Because they are making 15 People happy and the rest of us a bit peeved.

    like othersI’ve been onboard with Sony since ps1. and I buy most all the exclusives and I enjoy the experience. I getthat hardcore gamers deserve a little recognition, but again aa lot of us think most the high trophy counts are hacked… and to call gaming like there is nothing else, even if you have 2k golds legit…to call that greatness..I am truly in the wrong generation.

  • all your other trophies should of counted too, 99 broze is one silver and 99 silver is one gold, etc, and you should of used your TOTAL plat trophies after all that was added up to buy a raffle ticket for each plat trophy, then used those raffle tickets on the item of your choice, and then randomly pick a winner out of the tickets, now these hackers are going buck wild

  • I was pretty excited about this until I read the part where non-winners get all their currency back. Absolute nonsense. The item I had my eye on is probably not a big ticket item, but it won’t matter now because those thousand gold trophy people will be able to snag all the items. Bummer.

  • Being EU I can’t log in and take part

    We never get anything like this!!!!

  • Though I think it is cool, how about rewarding people who buy a lot too.

  • only one question: how can SCEA tell the trophy hacker? I have at least 5 friends use hacker tools hack about 300 games, can SCEA tell them?

  • I think that if this contest isn’t open to canadians soon, i’ll cancel my pre-order ps4 and go for the xbox one. Sad but i think there’s a big lack of respect toward others non-residents of usa.

  • No love for Canadians!!! Come on… :(

  • Yea no kidding #197, Us Canadians will have the PS4 ‘lite’. Limited features. :/

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