How To Claim 2500 Bonus Microsoft Points On Xbox In July

The rewards program is fantastic. I got 18 months of GamePass for $0.

Cheers for pointing out that state of decay one. I didn't read the text on the actual punch card so all I saw was the punches without a point amount attached to them. One of them required renting movies so I didn't bother. I have state of decay downloading now so I can get 500 points for the archievement! Cheers!

I agree, the rewards program is awesome, weekly and the monthly (for the 1000 points) are the ones I always target.... easy to achieve... I use it for discounts in the store....

@Xenomorph_79 Nintendo gives you a percentage of the price of every Switch game (new retail or eShop) game back as store credit.

I never engaged with this program really until this year but this was after over a decade of just playing and buying games in the Xbox ecosystem and having an account that accrued points.

I got over 300 bucks of credit when I realized what I was able to do with this. Yeah, I engage with it and the quest system a bit now but still mostly passively, still a great program.

@Sakisa $300 in a year! Dang.

@FatalBubbles Nah, it was $300 of Microsoft rewards existing and me accruing points for purchases and playing games that I didn't mess with for years.

It was nice though.

@FraserG ahh fair enough, I will give it a go anyway and keep an eye on it!

@Xenomorph_79 "Sony and other competitors who do nothing like this at all."

Nintendo does do something like this as @VenomousAlbino already mentioned Gold points, which are worth 1 cent each on the US eShope. Nintendo also has Platinum points that you earn doing all sorts of weird stuff like this. Like looking for hidden Mario's on a new game website. Then you can trade in those points for physical dodads, that they charge you $5 to ship. 😝 MyNintendo is no Club Nintendo tho. Unless you don't consider Nintendo a competitor, then fair enough.

This is all new(s) to me. I think I have around 3982 points according to my Xbox account, or maybe that's just my MS account, but I'm still confused why my Win 10 PC has 2 apps both exactly called "Xbox" but one opens up my console achievements and one opens up my Gamepass library and they seem so different. It's so weird. 🤷‍♂️

Edit: OK, so this article is about "MS Rewards", which seems to have no relationship at all to my Xbox account, so yeah, um, nevermind. I'll do Xbox account stuff b/c I game, but I don't Bing. Thanks for the link in the article to the explanation, got it now. 👍

@rjejr are your Microsoft and Xbox accounts not just the same account? Mine are.

@VenomousAlbino Good question. I'll go look into that now. I'd assumed so, but since I regularly use 3 emails they could be separate.

So it looks like they are the same. That 3,982 number I referenced earlier is my Gamerscore, not the 1,023 which is my MS Rewards score, still level 1. I traded in my Xbox1 for a Switch about 4 years ago and had been playing on my kids GP account on PC since then, think I just confused myself a wee bit, which isn't hard to do these days.

So now between MS, Amazon and Google I could probably die now but continue on as some type of ghost AI in perpetuity. No wonder the elderly get scammed so much, who can remember and keep track of all of this stuff? 🤣

@VenomousAlbino @rjer You also get reward points back when you spend on the digital store (even if it’s all money from credit from reward points). I think it’s 5 points per £ for level 1, 10 points per £ for level 2 (which just requires earning 500 points a month) and if you’re a Game Pass subscriber it’s 20 points per £ spent.