It's a great shame microsoft took away the points for achievements within games as that gave me an extra incentive to join ultimate (which I have not used for about a year now) and play games I liked and games I would otherwise pass or give up on early. Microsoft also took away points from fitness videos; guess the price shopping; e-sports channel without saying anything. That's not very customer friendly, is it, as it makes you think there is a fault with your pc and waste time searching for a solution. Also, I am now unable to get points using the mobile emulator on PC (Control+Shift + I); and the 90 bing search points per day stops working on movie, author or cast lists after about 6 clicks (I search numbers instead). Making me use copilot to get 40 points is not great as copilot feels a clunky way to search - I don't want to search as if i am communicating with a sentient being when I know full well it is not. Weirds me out - especially when it says sorry. That is all kinds of wrong.
The Shopping game ceased a month or two ago in the UK. Towards the end it would substitute a completely different price from the lowest one clicked on.The Health Videos stopped a few months before then and was difficult to play on the console. The 12 points for browsing in Edge stopped this week. The reward points for searching in Bing on pc and on your phone is not working properly and points are not being credited; or there is a very long delay which refreshing does not resolve leading to numerous repetitious searches to get 9 or 12 points in spurts. You can still get rewards points for playing a PC game and playing Jewel 2 on your phone's X Box app, etc. but that has always been difficult to access smoothly (whether to claim reward points or launch the Jewel game). I have never been able to consistently get points for playing a PC game with others - once or twice perhaps in World of Tanks, but gave up trying ages ago. The stark reduction in points without much notice being given to us is a shame as this Rewards concession has kept me loyal to XBox / Microsoft for years, but I am now firing up my dusty Playstation console and looking at what it has to offer (mostly same games different console). I think Microsoft has underestimated the huge attraction of Reward points for members, as it gives an extra level of motivation to play Microsoft produced games that otherwise you might not bother with, plus the opportunities to get free games, game passes, etc, of course. Cannot really complain as it is/was all free. Oh well, all good things come to an end and freebies never last for ever.
@shoeses I play Solitaire every day for 10 points. You have to watch an ad for 30 seconds before the game starts. I can never get points to play an XBox multiplayer game on my pc as the only one i have downloaded is World of Tanks 2.
There are 2 other ways to earn Rewards points every day - the Microsoft Fitness Challenges (play 2 videos and earn 20 points for each one); and on the Shopping page where you guess the correct lowest cost of an advertised item and do this 10 times at 10 points per correct guess. There is a way of doing this without guessing - see chickenpossible/rewards hunter on youtube. Anyone know the least number of Rewards points I would need to purchase an X Box Series X console (£450) from Microsoft Store using rewards points only? Can I redeem all saved points in one go? [I have about 350,000 points]. To answer Snake-V5: I believe you can keep the points indefinitely as long as they are not redeemed for a X Box voucher.
Some punch cards that offer 500 points require an in-game purchase costing £7.99 e.g. Rogue Company x The Walking Dead - but this is not cost effective just to earn 500 points, and I would be surprised if players did this. Why? Does anyone know a (legal) way around this that does not involve real money?
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It's a great shame microsoft took away the points for achievements within games as that gave me an extra incentive to join ultimate (which I have not used for about a year now) and play games I liked and games I would otherwise pass or give up on early. Microsoft also took away points from fitness videos; guess the price shopping; e-sports channel without saying anything. That's not very customer friendly, is it, as it makes you think there is a fault with your pc and waste time searching for a solution. Also, I am now unable to get points using the mobile emulator on PC (Control+Shift + I); and the 90 bing search points per day stops working on movie, author or cast lists after about 6 clicks (I search numbers instead). Making me use copilot to get 40 points is not great as copilot feels a clunky way to search - I don't want to search as if i am communicating with a sentient being when I know full well it is not. Weirds me out - especially when it says sorry. That is all kinds of wrong.
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The Shopping game ceased a month or two ago in the UK. Towards the end it would substitute a completely different price from the lowest one clicked on.The Health Videos stopped a few months before then and was difficult to play on the console. The 12 points for browsing in Edge stopped this week. The reward points for searching in Bing on pc and on your phone is not working properly and points are not being credited; or there is a very long delay which refreshing does not resolve leading to numerous repetitious searches to get 9 or 12 points in spurts. You can still get rewards points for playing a PC game and playing Jewel 2 on your phone's X Box app, etc. but that has always been difficult to access smoothly (whether to claim reward points or launch the Jewel game). I have never been able to consistently get points for playing a PC game with others - once or twice perhaps in World of Tanks, but gave up trying ages ago. The stark reduction in points without much notice being given to us is a shame as this Rewards concession has kept me loyal to XBox / Microsoft for years, but I am now firing up my dusty Playstation console and looking at what it has to offer (mostly same games different console). I think Microsoft has underestimated the huge attraction of Reward points for members, as it gives an extra level of motivation to play Microsoft produced games that otherwise you might not bother with, plus the opportunities to get free games, game passes, etc, of course. Cannot really complain as it is/was all free. Oh well, all good things come to an end and freebies never last for ever.
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@shoeses I play Solitaire every day for 10 points. You have to watch an ad for 30 seconds before the game starts. I can never get points to play an XBox multiplayer game on my pc as the only one i have downloaded is World of Tanks 2.
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There are 2 other ways to earn Rewards points every day - the Microsoft Fitness Challenges (play 2 videos and earn 20 points for each one); and on the Shopping page where you guess the correct lowest cost of an advertised item and do this 10 times at 10 points per correct guess. There is a way of doing this without guessing - see chickenpossible/rewards hunter on youtube. Anyone know the least number of Rewards points I would need to purchase an X Box Series X console (£450) from Microsoft Store using rewards points only? Can I redeem all saved points in one go? [I have about 350,000 points]. To answer Snake-V5: I believe you can keep the points indefinitely as long as they are not redeemed for a X Box voucher.
Re: Microsoft Rewards & Xbox: How To Make 20,000 Points Per-Month
Some punch cards that offer 500 points require an in-game purchase costing £7.99 e.g. Rogue Company x The Walking Dead - but this is not cost effective just to earn 500 points, and I would be surprised if players did this. Why? Does anyone know a (legal) way around this that does not involve real money?