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[Microsoft] New Year, New Rewards with Xbox

adamsapple

Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Microsoft sucks less at Android development, in other words.

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Windle Poons

Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
I'm sorry to be that guy again lol, but not having issues with the reading news etc stuff on Android.

Looks like Rewards works better with Android over iOS.
Maybe they just haven't updated the Android app in the last week or so?
 

adamsapple

Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Windle Poons Windle Poons Topher Topher

Are you guys still having issue with the app? Noticed that the layout of the MSN app is a bit different now, it has new type of buttons but the Rewards one is still there for me.



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Windle Poons

Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
Bing App still works for me on IOS (US).
That’s either because a) you haven’t seen in the posts above that it’s now fixed or b) you didn’t update the app in the first place meaning you wouldn’t have been affected 👍🏻
 
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bender

What time is it?
That’s either because a) you haven’t seen in the posts above that it’s now fixed or b) you didn’t update the app in the first place meaning you wouldn’t have been affected 👍🏻

Or, if you’d have any worthwhile experience with the program, you’d know rolled out changes usually don’t affect all users. I’m a daily user of the app and rewards program so my app wouldn’t be out of date and I would notice if something had changed.
 

Windle Poons

Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
Or, if you’d have any worthwhile experience with the program, you’d know rolled out changes usually don’t affect all users. I’m a daily user of the app and rewards program so my app wouldn’t be out of date and I would notice if something had changed.
Quite possibly - just a thread on reddit and Topher and me affected by it on here when we updated our apps - but yes like you say not everyone.

It's like when someone posts on Facebook asking if the internet is down, and the entire street could be offline but you'll always get one person saying theirs is fine.

I'm sure Topher Topher is a daily user of the app as am I.
 

RPS37

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I’ve played l8ke 20 mins of three different game pass games today, yet I keep not getting credit for the quests.
Anyone else?
 

Windle Poons

Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
My 279 day 'streak' has reset to zero despite having streak protection on - I thought that was what it was for?

Was unable to complete tasks yesterday due to being out at meetings and forgot when I got home was too tired (not that I need to explain!)
 

Windle Poons

Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
I’ve played l8ke 20 mins of three different game pass games today, yet I keep not getting credit for the quests.
Anyone else?
Only thing I found out (from some good folks in this thread) was that I was playing EA GP games which don't count.

These 3 were deffo MS GP games?
 
How much points is everyone getting per month? Im at 11k with 1 day left of the month. No gamepass points, just all the other stuff. Should end the month at 11.5k
 
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How much points is everyone getting per month? Im at 11k with 1 day left of the month. No gamepass points, just all the other stuff. Should end the month at 11.5k
I haven't maxed a month yet, but I think I will have about 3000 points a week, if I keep doing everything. In addition there will be some occasional bonus points.
 

adamsapple

Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
For some reason I thought yesterday was the last day of the month.

This is my final tally for the month, unless I buy something later today and get more points for it. And this is without reaching the first 400 weekly bonus. Next month's probably gonna be similar or higher (less days in Feb).

5 day PC and Console ending today helped push it over 16k.


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For some reason I thought yesterday was the last day of the month.

This is my final tally for the month, unless I buy something later today and get more points for it. And this is without reaching the first 400 weekly bonus. Next month's probably gonna be similar or higher (less days in Feb).

5 day PC and Console ending today helped push it over 16k.


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16k. Not bad. I'm happy to scrape 12k per month. That gets me either gamepass ultimate for a month or £10 to my Microsoft account.
 

adamsapple

Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
16k. Not bad. I'm happy to scrape 12k per month. That gets me either gamepass ultimate for a month or £10 to my Microsoft account.

You're not in the US right? I saw your search image earlier and you get 90 points, US searches normally get 150.

The rewards have always been more generous for US folks than any other region in the world.
 

adamsapple

Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
400 bonus for what?

It's their new weekly streaks, probably the most generous points thing they've done since 2022 or so. If you maintain a streak, you get 400 bonus points every week.

This replaced the thing where you could get 1000 points a month for doing a certain number of things like game pass achievements etc. More points for less work (but it caused one of the primary achievenent hunter guys on youtube to close his channel since it kinda killed his whole purpose).
 
It's their new weekly streaks, probably the most generous points thing they've done since 2022 or so. If you maintain a streak, you get 400 bonus points every week.

This replaced the thing where you could get 1000 points a month for doing a certain number of things like game pass achievements etc. More points for less work (but it caused one of the primary achievenent hunter guys on youtube to close his channel since it kinda killed his whole purpose).

Does it work the same way as the console and PC weekly bonus where you play a game for 15 minutes everyday? 400 extra points is quite hefty and a nice change from all the nerfs we've got over the last year.
 
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adamsapple

Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Does it work the same way as the console weekly bonus where you play a game for 15 minutes everyday? 400 extra points is quite hefty and a nice change from all the nerfs we've got over the last year.

Correct, works the same.

Does not replace it, but adds as a separate tier. So you still have those weekly bonuses (they added a PC weekly bonus on top of the console).

Like I said, they're being uncharacteristically generous right now. This usually means something's about to change in a month or two, lol.
 
Correct, works the same.

Does not replace it, but adds as a separate tier. So you still have those weekly bonuses (they added a PC weekly bonus on top of the console).

Like I said, they're being uncharacteristically generous right now. This usually means something's about to change in a month or two, lol.

Its gonna change the moment i resub to gamepass isn't it? Let's hope not.
 
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