@Shigurui I actually lost my streak the other day too. I was sure I'd done it the day before but have been having some issues getting the tasks to track after completing them lately - figured I'd just forgot to go back and try later or something.
@Shigurui good to hear they sorted it - I don't think I'll bother with Customer services though as I legitimately lost my 90+ day streak a couple of weeks ago (I was in a rush one morning and forgot to do in it), the latest one was only a couple of weeks old so won't have lost much.
I hit 200 000 points today which is about £170. It's been almost a year (weekly streak is on 45 weeks) but it feels like much longer to be honest.
Ive only just started going for the daily achievements again after a month of being too busy. Eeking out Halo Infinite for an achievement a day has been good while I play Control on PS4.
Doing some calculations, I should hit £450 worth of money at Week 117, a fitting number for Xbox fans but is still well over a year away for me.
I am tired and I'm not sure how much longer I can go on with the Rewards but I'll keep plugging away for the moment.
I'm pretty sure that thing is just a placeholder for the points you get for buying stuff in the MS store anyway. 40K+ points is just a ridiculously large amount of points they put on there to say how much you could earn. Of course you'd have to spend like £200 to reach that amount so yeah, I think its no different to what you get normally.
I can't remember what the amount of points you get per £ were. I know there are two seemingly arbitrary tiers, where if you earn over a certain amount of points monthly (can be with any method, daily searches, daily/weekly sets etc) then you get more points back when you spend money in the store than you would if you were tier 1.
@ralphdibny I think I get 20 points per £1 spent but I've only been going a few weeks since I got the XSS. I actually saved a trophy from last night so I could pop it today 😄
@Kopite haha nice. Yeah I do the same! Currently eeking out Halo Infinite. Sometimes it can spoil games a bit so it's good to choose a game with easy achievements that you care less about so you can eek out achievements if your main playtime is going to be on a different platform for that day
New changes seem a bit tight. 3 points daily for play a game and losing the 5 point a day mobile app log in. Not sure what to make of it really. The new Xbox app quests haven't been rolled out to me yet =(
XBox Series X is in stock at the Microsoft Store on Xbox (UK) (thought I'd tag @FraserG )
I just used my £195 in Rewards points and snagged it for £254.99 (and two one years of menial tasks 😨😭😂😂)
It was a total ballache to order though, not sure if the store was broken. Every time I verified the purchase, it just would take my back to the confirm order screen.
Ended up ringing the Helpline phone number on screen and they completed the transaction for me.
Edit: it was just over one year of menial tasks, just checked and I'm on a 54 week streak. It blimmin well felt like 2 years though! Happy to be joining the next generation anyway lol. Looks like the consoles are still in stock on the UK MS Store on Xbox if anyone still fancies one
@KilloWertz haha cheers yeah, had to save me some credits.
I do want a PS5 at some point. I think a few things need to happen though, steep discount either official or unofficial, a smaller hardware revision or an option to buy the current model with the red plates/controller bundled instead of paying extra for them or finally, just for me to have enough money in the bank, to see it in the wild and buy it on impulse. The latter actually nearly happened last year but after I left a ShopTo queue window open in the background for a while, all they had to sell me were expensive bundles that included games I already owned that would have free upgrades. I decided to pass on that in the end
@ralphdibny I wouldn't hold my breath on them bundling in the colored plates and controller or even having colored PS5s to buy. Aside from the PS Plus games and things like that, it's not PlayStation's style to give away things for free like that.
Someday these things should actually be able to be bought whenever you want to. At least you would think so. Then maybe you can see the light and realize how crazy you've been to side with Xbox all this time.
Seriously, you should be good with one console for the time being. At times, I kind of wish I only had one at the moment. I obviously consider myself lucky, but still, I hardly use my Series X right now, especially now that Horizon Forbidden West is out. Obviously that will change next year when the games start coming out on Xbox, but for the time being one would suffice.
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@KilloWertz nah don't worry, I won't hold my breath. I usually come up with out there but still fair enough for working class mooks like myself reasons to dissuade me from plonking down £500 in one go
Haha you know I don't take sides. I swing both (all?) ways 😂. I actually have 4 different PlayStation's hooked up under the tele (2xPs3s, PS4 w/PSVR and a hacked PSTV), 1 Xbox and 2 Nintendo's (possibly soon to be 3 as I bought a second Wii U to do a hack on). Also 4x mini consoles. I'll probably drop the Xbox One X when the Series X arrives because it will occupy the same HDMI port.
Xbox is only my main console at the moment because I'm playing through the Yakuza's on Game Pass. After that, I will probably move back onto my mission to at least play most of the PS Plus games before I let that sub lapse in May. And I was thinking of just letting my Game Pass lapse in August when it runs out too. I feel like I really need to get around to actually playing games that I have bought and paid for instead of being beholden to 3 different subscriptions at all times.
I think the main reason I want a PS5 is because my base PS4 is a little bit ropey these days. The One X was the console least in need of an upgrade but id saved enough Rewards points to knock almost £200 off the base price and it was in stock on the MS store so I thought I might as well go in for the Series X!
@ralphdibny I let my GP sub lapse at the beginning of the year for the exact same reason - the pile of shame just kept growing while I got distracted by all the stuff on Game Pass. I made a list of all the stuff I had bought, but never played, and it was close to 600 games! That is counting stuff on compilations as multiple games - still have 40+ to play on the Mega Drive collection for example - so some of those will likely get abandoned pretty quickly, but it's probably going to take years to get through it.
@dmcc0 I often get fairly depressed at the thought that I probably have more games to play than time in my lifespan to play them. Not so much that I won't get to play the games, more that I don't want to book up the rest of my life with games. I am sure, and in some ways I hope that, that thought will grow and replace my normal "what's next" attitude where I just play a game in my spare time until I finish it and just move on to the next one.
On a less somber note, I think my wall of shame is pretty extensive. I think my backlog dates all the way back to the Wii/PS3. I think I drew a line under anything I own that's GameCube or older. Older games tend to get played more when they are part of a series or if it's something I bought recently that's new to me and I haven't played before
@ralphdibny Yeah, I've stopped seeing the backlog as some sort of chore that needs to be 'completed' and just think of it like my own personal Game Pass now. I've also cut back on buying new stuff too - not really a conscious decision, just that most of the stuff on my various wish-lists goes on sale fairly regularly so I don't feel the need to buy right away. Having said that, I am trying to pick up some of the remaining bits I want to play on 3DS before the eShop closes next year.
Yeah, I've got a fairly varied mix in there too - vast majority are Switch & Xbox but I've also got a decent collection going right back to Game Boy and various things in between that I've never played yet
@dmcc0 that's certainly a good way to look at it! I did a similar sort of thing during the first year of lockdowns and just played whatever, whenever. It was nice and I really wish I could go back to that and hope to do so one day.
I gota do the same for both 3DS and Wii U. I think I'm Gona buy some 10% off codes from the Nintendo Life codes website and just go on a spree in a few weeks time. Maybe like 150-300 pounds worth. Gotta wait for my wallet to heal after that £255 I put towards the series x though!
@ralphdibny I'm chipping away at the 3DS list rather that just hitting it in one go - I think if I drop all that cash in one go and buy everything I want I'll end up delving deeper and probably pick up more stuff just for the sake of it - stuff that I probably don't really want.
There are still a few places that have new physical 3DS games online too, so I've been comparing the prices to see what works out cheaper - might even go used on some of the more common stuff as they can be pretty cheap - for the rest I'll just pick up those on the eShop with those Nintendo Life discounted codes.
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