Xbox Game Pass Quests Have Undergone A Few Changes For March

For those of us in Canada these changes — combined with the pre-existing differences — sort of make the Game Pass Quests a waste of time in my opinion.

@101Force im in canada also and its definitely annoying, but its only a hit of about 400-500 points a month max. you can still make a lot of points by doing everything else. it would be nice if we got some of the other punchcards that are in other locations

This is a bad change for everyone except the people in the US and UK I guess. The rest of the world doesn't really have all the bonus rewards that those people have. It's double sad considering we pay more per game compared to those countries as well

Honestly kind of glad they got rid of the mobile app one it was hit or miss whether I got credit for it and I didn’t always remember to do it.

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@Grahamthecracker Same with me. I had to do it twice for it to work every time.

I cashed in a bunch of points this past summer and got an Elite for free. It may take a while, but it all does add up.

The Bing reward quizzes etc still work.

@Xiovanni +1, but somehow gamers today seem to love turning games into chores. From cooldowns, to quests, to trophies/achievements, etc, etc, the chore seems to be the fun thing. I swear people must do their own tax audits for amusement.

@NEStalgia wait what ? people don't enjoy doing tax audits? What has the world become that such monsters exist 😜

As for rewards they are not something I chase but if one pops up I redeem it and enjoy the occasional discount as a result.

@Xiovanni most quests aren't a chore though. It's mostly open a game, earn an achievement or do those several times in a week. It's free money for making a concerted effort to just turn on your Xbox and use it. I've never been one for achievement hunting, I get what I get on that front but I don't see the rewards as effort and I get gamepass basically paid for by turning my Xbox on for 2 minutes each day.

As others said the annoyance for most people is they aren't American or British so get very little in the way if rewards, and even less now their schemes have been scaled back like this.

I really like the Microsoft Rewards system, coupled along with Game Pass Quests. It allows you to try new games, and earn money as you do it. I've calculated that on average you are likely to make at least 9000 points (over £5 worth) a month, and that excludes the additional bonus quests etc. All it takes is around 10 minutes per day. In a year it gets close to £100, again with the bonus quests etc it can get even higher.

This is the UK of course, not sure how different it is elsewhere, but the rewards are worth it when you've saved up enough for a new piece of hardware or game, or your next Game Pass sub.

@BBB At least game pass includes the yardwork simulator. Not as much fun as the audit or trying to reach capable customer service through the menu loop at a phone company, but it's something to pass the time, I guess.

@NEStalgia I like to not pay for things on xbox so I do the rewards program. If people like to spend extra money they can send it to me. 🙃

Paid $20 for ten months of game pass mostly with the rewards program and a Black Friday deal. The quests make me try new games or have fun in a new genre.

@Xiovanni Thank you! And amen!

@NEStalgia Personally for fun, I think they lock themselves in a small, dark, closet, get on their knees, whip their backs with leather straps until bleeds, looking at a FromSoftware game poster.

But that's just my opinion.

@GuyinPA75 That's an entire subreddit!

@Phantom_Anima My wife picks up around 11,000-12,000 points a month, and that’s without GamePass rewards or the rewards from the Xbox app. With the Game Pass and Xbox app ones as extra I got 25,000 points last month. So in the UK at least it’s easy to make decent points. And generally neither of us do the daily achievement ones, usually only when we need to get 3 achievements in a week if we spread the 3 achievements out over 3 days

@Grahamthecracker, same here, so many times I forgot to login to the gamepass app on my phone, even missed the 1k monthly quest cause of it, so I don't really mind the omission of that one, overall I really like the reward system, it's free store credit after all, 95% of the quests aren't that difficult, it's basically just play games, which we all do right?. Last month or so I spent all my points on Dying Light Platinum edition, and now I'm almost at 10k points again (got the 20 week quest streak which netted 2.5 k).

@SubjectNine that's interesting as I mostly keep up to date with most of mine (I try do most of the daily quests on the website and xbox, and game pass but do miss the odd days and weekends). I've accumulated over 25,000 since January. I'm guessing it's because I miss some days so my daily/weekly bonus is lower? I also live in the UK, I've been trying to gain enough points to get a big discount on the Seagate Expandable SSD so any advice is welcome

@Phantom_Anima We find it's just a case of making sure you do your daily sets for mobile and PC searches, as this nets you about 200 points a day minimum, and making sure you keep up on your weekly sets on Xbox. I got the 80 week bonus on mine during Feb, so I got the 10 week 2500 bonus points. Also keep an eye out for any punch cards on the Xbox dashboard that you qualify for, as these can help. I personally try to save the achievement ones for the 3 achievements in a week to help with that one.

And a point that many people may or may not know, achievements in their phone games (such as Sudoku) count towards the weekly set achievements (although not the Game Pass ones if they come back) if you don't have the time to play an Xbox or PC game to get the achievements needed for that week.

@themightyant People are acting like this is a second job which is some serious hyperbole. It takes like you said just a couple minutes and is well worth the reward. I have not spent a penny on GamePass to date.

@themightyant Yeah, I know there's real reward money in it, but when you already have to-do lists 30 deep for both work and home.....adding to it for this seems like quite the overkill

@GuyinPA75 some people even pay money for something like that... apparently:D