Microsoft Rewards

[evilashchris]

I'm still waiting on mine, and I did it shortly after it went live.

[Pob]

Nope. I just chased the support people. 

[Revival]

Mine is still 1/5 too. Gonna send them a message soon.

 

[Pob]

I'm starting to wish I'd never heard of this bloody thing now. 

[Orion]

5 hours ago, Pob said:

Nope. I just chased the support people. 

 

Did that work ?

[Pob]

Nothing yet. Fascinating thread, this!

[ScouserInExile]

Sorry if this has been addressed before, but can I just continue to build points until I have tens of thousands, then spend them all on something big? Or can I buy £5 codes and save those up?

 

This is my new "sat on the bog in work" thing...

[Mr Do 71]

Yeah you can just go on, and on collecting the points forever.

[JPR]

5 minutes ago, ScouserInExile said:

Sorry if this has been addressed before, but can I just continue to build points until I have tens of thousands, then spend them all on something big? Or can I buy £5 codes and save those up?

 

The £5 codes expire after 90 days, so only convert them if you're going to use them soon. Points only expire if you don't earn any or redeem them for 18 months so you can just keep building them up.

[ScouserInExile]

Cool, so just keep building until there's something I want?

[stefcha]

20 minutes ago, ScouserInExile said:

Cool, so just keep building until there's something I want?

 

Yeah, if you fancy. On the flip side, I don't want anything but the conversion deal is good at the moment (4410 points for a fiver vs the more usual 5850 points). So I'll redeem my 45 quid or so in a couple of weeks just before the hot deal ends and it's pretty likely something will be on sale before it expires, plus I can add whatever I'm able to that in the next couple of months as well. 

[Revival]

Yep

 

Plus there should be some very good games coming Dec 6th to 21st in the Winter of Arcade promotion.

[ScouserInExile]

This is so easy, I kinda regret not sticking at it when I last looked at it

[Pob]

It gets old fast.

[Revival]

Getting free Live Gold, Game Pass and Games never gets old.

[TehStu]

Yeah, just keep saving up. I have the $25 ish as my target, to get a 'free' Xbox pad dongle for my PC. It's an automatic grindy part of my day which doesn't take too long, particularly if you can tolerate Bing instead of Google. Which, actually, is often just fine. Use Bing instead of having regular reads as bookmarks, for example.

[Pob]

1 hour ago, TehStu said:

Yeah, just keep saving up. I have the $25 ish as my target, to get a 'free' Xbox pad dongle for my PC. It's an automatic grindy part of my day which doesn't take too long, particularly if you can tolerate Bing instead of Google. Which, actually, is often just fine. Use Bing instead of having regular reads as bookmarks, for example.

After that chap got busted earlier for spamming nonsense Bing searches I’ve been trying to use it moderately sensibly. The need to do loads of internet searches in a day has meant I’ve ended up researching a load of stuff I’d not been getting round to before. I also have visions of the Bing police monitoring my searches for suspicious behaviour and nodding at my interests. 

[TehStu]

Sometimes I answer that daily poll and I'm very obviously outside the norm, in terms of the % split. Briefly makes me wonder what incredibly useful data insights I'm volunteering to Redmond's AI.

[mdn2]

Did anyone get the 5000 bonus points from the GamePass punch card? I've just noticed its vanished off the app and it never updated for me. 

[Mortis]

Nope - completed all the tasks but it never triggered for me beyond the initial activate the punch card bit. 

[Mogster]

Same here. I was about to put in a support call.

[Mr Do 71]

Nothing.

[Mr Do 71]

I've submitted my problem here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/supportrequestform/cf50b787-a987-a7ff-133c-6c4e3f638013

[Pob]

Nothing yet and I raised a support call. They said they’d look into over a week ago and nothing yet. What a load of shit. 

[theredstar]

Yep, raised a ticket about it as well.  Got a holding email, but nothing since.

[choduk]

Same here.

[Pob]

You’d think with something so flaky and ultimately worthless they’d just issue the points to anyone who raises a support ticket rather than pissing people off keeping them waiting and wasting their time looking into if they really did get the achievements. 

[Mr Do 71]

1 minute ago, Pob said:

You’d think with something so flaky and ultimately worthless they’d just issue the points to anyone who raises a support ticket rather than pissing people off keeping them waiting and wasting their time looking into if they really did get the achievements. 

 

Exactly what I was thinking.

[Pob]

Oh well, I already bought Hitman 2 Gold digitally thanks to a tip from Hitcher, and I can probably grind my way the £5 MS voucher that’s on offer by midday tomorrow, so the urgency has gone. I won’t be doing any more of this crap in future though. 

[TehStu]

4 hours ago, Pob said:

You’d think with something so flaky and ultimately worthless they’d just issue the points to anyone who raises a support ticket rather than pissing people off keeping them waiting and wasting their time looking into if they really did get the achievements. 

It seems a bit disjointed behind the scenes. Recall I bought FH4 ultimate, not standard, and they didn't credit me with the punch card for buying FH4. Because I'd bought the wrong version.

 

They've updated the dashboard with badges and the ability to send/ask for points from family members. So, they're putting effort into it, but the back end and support feels like it needs a lot of refining.