Microsoft Expand Xbox LIVE Rewards Programme; Offer Free Games

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Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE Rewards Programme has received much attention since its launch late last year, offering gamers an incentive to keep doing what they would generally be doing anyway. From renewing their annual Xbox LIVE Gold subscription to purchasing content from the Xbox LIVE marketplace, gamers can earn Microsoft Points simply by engaging in the usual activities of an Xbox LIVE gamer. However, Microsoft has now expanded the Rewards Programme by offering not just bonus Microsoft Points, but an assortment of free games.

Over the past weekend Microsoft contacted select Xbox LIVE Gold subscribers to offer a special ‘VIP Exclusive’ promotion. Given a passcode and access to a previously private page on the official Xbox website, xbox.com, VIP Exclusive Xbox LIVE Gold members had the opportunity to win a bundle pack of Kinect software, including Kinect Sports, Your Shape: Fitness Evolved and EA SPORTS Active 2. What’s more, all VIP Exclusive Xbox LIVE Gold subscribers were given a new Adidas outfit for their Xbox LIVE Avatar – male or female – and the promise of much more to come in the future.Exactly what is required to become part of the Xbox LIVE VIP Exclusive club is not currently known, though it’s likely that you will have had to have been an Xbox LIVE Gold subscriber for a number of years, and regularly purchase content from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace. Electronic Theatre will keep you updated with all the latest details on VIP Exclusive promotions, and the Xbox LIVE Rewards Programme.

http://www.electronictheatre.co.uk/index.php/xbox360/xbxo360-news/6984-microsoft-expand-xbox-live-rewards-programme-offer-free-games

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Antabus on 17 January 2011

That's it. I am not renewing my gold subscription. F*ck you microsoft and your lovely ways of screwing us europeans with your bullshit.

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Mistershine on 17 January 2011

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That's it. I am not renewing my gold subscription. F*ck you microsoft and your lovely ways of screwing us europeans with your bullshit.

Do you not get the rewards proram?

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yo_john117 on 17 January 2011

Ok lets see just how "exclusive" this is...I got it, who else did?

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cory.ok on 17 January 2011

you pay for whatever they give you, and whatever they give to other people. its not really free lol

'reward programs' are dumb

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Antabus on 17 January 2011

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Antabus said:

That's it. I am not renewing my gold subscription. F*ck you microsoft and your lovely ways of screwing us europeans with your bullshit.

Do you not get the rewards proram?

Not available on my region = EU. That's it for gold membership.

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Antabus said:

Mistershine said:

Antabus said:

That's it. I am not renewing my gold subscription. F*ck you microsoft and your lovely ways of screwing us europeans with your bullshit.

Do you not get the rewards proram?

Not available on my region = EU. That's it for gold membership.

Meh doesn't affect me much. In some cases the rewards are pitiful, and "number of years" kills me as I've only been a gold member for about 17 months.

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AussieGecko on 17 January 2011

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That's it. I am not renewing my gold subscription. F*ck you microsoft and your lovely ways of screwing us europeans with your bullshit.

most likely they are just testing it in US and Uk they will probably expand, australia doesnt get it either.

Bet with Conegamer and Doobie_wop

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3879752

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yo_john117 on 17 January 2011

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you pay for whatever they give you, and whatever they give to other people. its not really free lol

'reward programs' are dumb

Yes because getting free stuff for something you were going to do anyways is just plain stupid.

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Mistershine said:

Antabus said:

That's it. I am not renewing my gold subscription. F*ck you microsoft and your lovely ways of screwing us europeans with your bullshit.

Do you not get the rewards proram?

This is one of the reasons, the gap between Sony and MS is growing in EU.

MS is not really interested in this region. We don't have anything like the reward program.

No Netflix, no ESPN, no Sky Player (only in UK, although sky Germay wanted to install it, too), zune with a bad and expensive library, no JAM-FM, no kinect voice control...

Wait, we got the facebokk-app. And twitter.

The truth is, microsoft doesn't care. They seem to think that they don't really need this region.

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