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shikamaru317 on 30 November 2023
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trunkswd said:
shikamaru317 said:

No, it's not just you, we were just talking about the recent Rewards changes recently. 

  • The 20 Edge points per day from Bing Rewards are gone.
  • Bing Rewards now seems to have a 20 or 30 second timer per search, meaning that you can no longer easily get your points by spam clicking through the trending news searches each day, as I and many others have done for years.
  • The Microsoft Rewards for Xbox app is being ended in like a week, after they have spent the last year or so gutting the app by removing more and more point opportunities
  • Xbox Rewards (which has been in beta and can be accessed from either the mobile Xbox app or an obscure tab on your Xbox profile on console) is the replacement for the above app which is ending support in a week. Meanwhile, Xbox Rewards recently had it's 50 points per day for earning an achievement in a Gamepass game shrunk by 90% down to 5 points per day. Xbox has yet to reveal if new point opportunities will be added to Xbox Rewards to make up for the missing points from the soon to be removed Microsoft Rewards for Xbox app.

Doing searches is completely broke for me today. I've gotten 0 points doing searches, even with the first search of the day. The play a PC game, play 1 level in Jewel, and the daily uses on the Xbox app still work for me. So that is 160+ points per day. The play a PC game is worth 100 if you have Game Pass and have 7+ friends, while it is 60 points for playing 1 level in Jewel.

The daily sets, more activities, etc. also are working fine for now. 

I do have Game Pass maxed out at 3 years and have 188K MS Points, so I am good for like 4 and a half years for Game Pass Ultimate if I were to stop getting points right now.

I have about 10 months of Gamepass Ultimate left and 59k MS points right now, so assuming I can keep getting at least 350 points per day on average like I have been, I should be able to keep Gamepass Ultimate going for free without spending a dime for a further few years at least. Alot depends on them not further cutting points opportunities even lower than they have already cut them, as well as them not raising Gamepass costs again, both dollar and point.