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VersusEvil on 30 November 2023

Playing through one of my favourite games ever Metro 2033 (Redux edition) for a detox and I’m getting back in the mind set of why I love gaming.



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DroidKnight on 30 November 2023



...to avoid getting banned for inactivity, I may have to resort to comments that are of a lower overall quality and or beneath my moral standards.

G2ThaUNiT on 30 November 2023

PC Gamer voted Stalker 2 as their most anticipated game. Avowed at number 17. Included a message from the developer and an unexpected story trailer! Still slated for Q1 2024



DroidKnight on 30 November 2023



...to avoid getting banned for inactivity, I may have to resort to comments that are of a lower overall quality and or beneath my moral standards.

VersusEvil on 30 November 2023

G2 … the bin is the only place you should post PC Gamer too.



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EpicRandy on 30 November 2023
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.

Same for me, Search give 0 point unless I use Edge.



Wman1996 on 30 November 2023

I ordered an Xbox 360 E. The good news is that there are already two 360 controllers I found that my brothers used to have packed away with our beat up old Arcade Xbox (a hand me-down that we didn't use much since my brothers had an Elite). I'll test them when the E arrives.
I was meaning to get a Wi-Fi ready, reliable disc drive Xbox 360 for a long time. I've just never got around to it. I never even made an Xbox account until earlier this year to play a Minecraft realm on PlayStation.
It was between an Xbox 360 S or E, or even an Xbox One S for me. Xbox Series S doesn't appeal to me, and Xbox Series X is too expensive for me right now. And of course, FOMO. The Xbox 360 Store is closing July 29th and there are some digital-only titles I want as well as some retail games that are either cheaper on the store or a similar price and more convenient than swapping discs as much.
Some titles I'm interested in (some are delisted, some are backwards compatible, some are digital-only and not backwards compatabile)
The South Park Digital-Only 360 Exclusives
Braid ($5 cheaper on 360 than on PS3)
Lego Star Wars II
Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Burning Earth
Batman: Arkham Origins
Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad
Persona 4 Arena
Captain America: Super Soldier
Viva Pinata series



Lifetime Sales Predictions 

Switch: 161 million (was 73 million, then 96 million, then 113 million, then 125 million, then 144 million, then 151 million, then 156 million)

PS5: 115 million (was 105 million) Xbox Series S/X: 48 million (was 60 million, then 67 million, then 57 million)

PS4: 120 mil (was 100 then 130 million, then 122 million) Xbox One: 51 mil (was 50 then 55 mil)

3DS: 75.5 mil (was 73, then 77 million)

"Let go your earthly tether, enter the void, empty and become wind." - Guru Laghima

G2ThaUNiT on 30 November 2023
Wman1996 said:

I ordered an Xbox 360 E. The good news is that there are already two 360 controllers I found that my brothers used to have packed away with our beat up old Arcade Xbox (a hand me-down that we didn't use much since my brothers had an Elite). I'll test them when the E arrives.
I was meaning to get a Wi-Fi ready, reliable disc drive Xbox 360 for a long time. I've just never got around to it. I never even made an Xbox account until earlier this year to play a Minecraft realm on PlayStation.
It was between an Xbox 360 S or E, or even an Xbox One S for me. Xbox Series S doesn't appeal to me, and Xbox Series X is too expensive for me right now. And of course, FOMO. The Xbox 360 Store is closing July 29th and there are some digital-only titles I want as well as some retail games that are either cheaper on the store or a similar price and more convenient than swapping discs as much.
Some titles I'm interested in (some are delisted, some are backwards compatible, some are digital-only and not backwards compatabile)
The South Park Digital-Only 360 Exclusives
Braid ($5 cheaper on 360 than on PS3)
Lego Star Wars II
Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Burning Earth
Batman: Arkham Origins
Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad
Persona 4 Arena
Captain America: Super Soldier
Viva Pinata series

Check out Hydro Thunder Hurricane if it's still available! It was one of my favorite Midway arcade games, and idk how Microsoft was able to get the license to make a sequel, but that was an Xbox Live Arcade release. 



trunkswd on 30 November 2023
shikamaru317 said:
trunkswd said:

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.

I was lucky and was able to upgrade 3 years of Gold to 3 years of Game Pass Ultimate and I have been able to earn like 18K-20K MS Points per month. Well until recently anyway. 



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trunkswd on 30 November 2023
EpicRandy said:
trunkswd said:

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.

Same for me, Search give 0 point unless I use Edge.

I tried Edge and it is still giving me 0. At this point it must be some sort of bug. I hope they go back to being able to spam searches.



VGChartz Sales Analyst and Writer - William D'Angelo - I stream on Twitch and have my own YouTube. Follow me on Twitter, Bluesky, and Threads.

I post and adjust the VGChartz hardware estimates, with help from Machina.

Writer of the Sales Comparison | Monthly Hardware Breakdown | Monthly Sales Analysis | Marketshare Features, as well as daily news on the Video Game Industry.