Topic: Microsoft Rewards (Reward Points Thread)

@MaccaMUFC doing the xbox stuff daily without clicking into Microsofts browsers and off xbox bits will total around 800 points a month if they follow through.
That's a big drop off from the 2200 since last year.

I reckon thousands of ill-informed gamers are sitting on millions of points suffice the change. Bit disappointed tbh.

Luckily we can still snag the roughly 162 points a day from using the browsers and more if you run the daily quizzes.

So about an autoredeemed £5 voucher a month. Grrrrr.

I think this was always going to happen sadly. With the amount of points that can be made a month coupled with the £1 pound for 3 years deal (which I have had twice) it's hard to see them carrying this on for too much longer in it's current form. As good as game pass is I don't think it's possible for them to keep giving people the opportunity to get it for free indefinitely. I would love to see the numbers on how much they actually make from subscriptions. Would love to hear what you guys think about that. Anyway, excuse me as I go google the number 1, 54 times for my 162 points

i can understand why they might want to reduce points but it now just seems a bit imbalanced you get 500 points for playing a game for 22 days and doing 12 weekly's or you can earn 500 points completing a punch card.

i just feel the more work you put in the more points you should get

This is going to be different for everyone but it's starting to not be worth doing for me if they keep reducing the rewards. 500 points is a little less than 50p (it varies depending what you redeem around 22p - 49p but it's a handy rough guide).

Is it really worth doing a task for at least 24 days a month for 50p? Of course if i'm doing most of it naturally then I don't mind going the extra mile, but equally that FOMO feeling when you realise you are a day or two short isn't worth the chance for 50p either!

On the flip side i've quietly built up almost 200,000 points again - It's taken several years - i've only topped up Game Pass via Gold in the last year. Currently deciding what to spend it on. Was hoping the 1TB Xbox Seagate expansion would be reduced or on sale by now but it's actually gone back to £220 from £185 and is currently out of stock. I was hoping it would be at most £150 by now. That thing is scandalously overpriced. Think I might just use up all my CEX vouchers and risk buying a second hand one for £160 at this rate.

Or possibly just consider a 512GB one, XSX only has 808GB of it's 1TB available so it would still be a another 63% of storage. Perhaps that's more sensible.

Then use the 200,000 MS points for another 1.8 years of Game Pass.

Decisions decisions.

personally i just use a 5tb external USB drive with my series X that rewards mostly paid for.

Various life circumstances made me give up doing the Rewards completely in early December. I just decided I'd had enough of it for some reason and I didn't want to give any more time to monotonous tasks. I wasn't really working toward anything. The cheapest thing I could want to spend my points on is the adaptive controller (for experimentation reasons) and the most expensive is a 2tb drive if they ever make them available on the store.

I'd already stopped doing the really grindy tasks, like do something random in a random game for an hour for 75 points. I just did the stuff that took like 5 minutes a day by the end but even that became a bit too much.

I sort of quit out on games about the same time I fully quit Rewards. Just had too much personal stuff to deal with and I couldn't concentrate on games, still can't really. Less games > less time on Xbox > less rewards. Still using the Xbox and TV to watch programmes on Disney and netflix.

Still though, I looked the other day and I have 94K points to spend. Not sure where to put it really. I could easily afford that controller now but I am not sure if I might just save them and see if I get back into it at a later date. I had a good run with rewards. My last cash out took about £200 off my Series X purchase so I am glad I collected what I could leading up to that point.

I still find it really easy to do the daily and weekly GPU quests and the daily searches. Really for a few minutes on the sh***** you get a few hundred bucks to do what you want with. I keep redeeming for more GPU time as it's only 12K points for a month. Really I'm gaming for free currently so this hasn't reached a point of frustration for me. The 500 points for the monthly won't be bad if we have a 250 point weekly quest, will actually be more points each month. The points in the Xbox app are also a bonus so right now it looks like I'll be getting more points. End of the day free is free. I got my series X from grinding Swagbucks and now I'm paying for GPU through rewards points so my gaming really cost me a few hundred bucks tops so far. That's for the initial gold subscription to convert for a dollar and the headset I got (mostly paid with points)

I have not paid for Gamepass in almost 3 years thanks to this program. Good times.

I just wanted to vent and ask if anyone has found a solution to my problem. I had a 250+ day streak with the Rewards Weekly Set but this morning it said ‘Oh no, you missed a weekly set and reset your streak!’ even though I completed it a few days before it ended and now this has happened? I seen other people say this has sorted itself out within weeks and their streak has been reinstated but in case that doesn’t happen for me is there a way to ask Microsoft to look into it for me despite me not having photographic proof because who really does that on a weekly basis?

@FraserG You may want to report and make an article on yet another cock-up of the Rewards Weekly Set being reset again. I was on week 118 and completed last weeks set. This morning it had reset for me but strangely on week 2 🤔

This happened to me last month and it eventually reinstated my weekly set but I feel it should be reported as often as possible so MS are aware of the issue.

@MaccaMUFC Thanks! I'll keep an eye on it - I'm only just back to work today after a week off, so not quite up to speed on things just yet

@FraserG Good you're back! I hope you had a nice vacation .

On the matter, I have seen troubles with Rewards points across all MS apps (Rewards app and Game Pass app on Xbox Series X; Bing, Edge and GP apps on my Android phone) Sometimes, points are "earned" but they don't add up. Have any of you encountered this issues recently?

@HarmanSmith Thank you! It was great

I've only just started again with Rewards after a week away, but haven't run into any issues on Android / Edge / Bing yet. Will need to check my Xbox later and see! I know people have been struggling with the 500 point Game Pass punch card for this month though.

@FraserG Oh I see. Thank you for the response!

I will continue to see how these apps behave in the next few days.

@FraserG I thought you were quiet when I noticed you weren’t commenting or putting articles out yourself. Makes sense now knowing your were on your holidays. Hope you enjoyed your break 😃

You’ll be having a busy time once we get the EU’s verdict regarding the ABK buyout and Xbox+Bethesda showcase in June.

Have any of you seen the Vy For Victory With Game Pass achievements counted?

This:

https://www.purexbox.com/guides/microsoft-rewards-how-to-comp...

@AgentCooper Something similar happened to that women games Rewards card and then they fixed it. They gave me one more so I think this will be fixed even if it means granting more than what we have really unlocked. I have unlocked three for this but they are not counted yet.

EDIT: What games did you use? Me? Forza Horizon 5 and Gang Beasts, the latter is hilarious.

@AgentCooper @Banjo- vy for victory punchcard is bust. Had to play both madden (which is honestly worse than the megadrive games and has so many database bugs it's obscene) and tried gang beasts. 750 points between both games over 4-5 dyas and no punchcard ticks at all. Oh well. I see it as a free extra rather than something they always need to get right but its frustrating for sure. Especially playing Badden 23.

@MaccaMUFC this happens more often than you may realise. Give it 24 hours and it should be back. I lost my weekly and daily streaks, they were then fine 48 hours later. This happened at the start of the month.

@themcnoisy Thanks for the detailed explanation. I'm not angry either, I know all this will be fixed and I had a great time with Gang Beasts, anyway.

@AgentCooper The Quests system works instantly because it's built in the operating system. That's why they probably moved the daily achievement to Quests. These 3 achievements cards are web-based so they track your achievements in other ways... slow ways and it they don't work, I think that they are granted to everyone that clicked on them.