Once you redeem your rewards points you have 90 days to spend that money. I haven't had any issue with the rewards points I've been saving since 2017. As long as you don't redeem them, you should be good.
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Points you earn expire if you are inactive for 18 months. Inactive as in you don't earn or redeem points for a straight 18 months.
Any Microsoft money you redeemed will expire 90 days from when you redeemed it.
It seems like a lot of people are saving for it. My fear is preorders will open up, I'll redeem all my points for Microsoft credit but they'll sell through preorders and I'll miss it, but then I'll be stuck with all that credit expiring in 90 days.
My last experience was that if it was partial payment with the balance it would not subtract from your balance. But if it was paid entirely from your balance it would charge immediately.
yes, they have one right now where you complete an achievement in the PC version of dishonored 2, state of decay, enter the gungeon, and a few other games i don't recall, for 100 points.
however, there is at least one non-PC-specific quest that gave points -- i got +300 points for the ID@xbox achievements one even though i didn't play any games on console. i think the vast majority are console-only though.
So if we use our points to buy a bunch of $50 gift cards, can we even apply multiple gift cards to a single order? How do people plan to use this to help pay for thei Series X?
You can't buy real giftcards with your reward points. The dollar amount you wanna trade your points for is automatically added to your MS account. And you should be able to use that balance to pay off your XSX.
So im currently at about $200 worth of points, will i be able to pay off just a portion with the points and pay the rest on my card?
Of course. I bought multiple games using my balance and paid the rest with my Paypal.
Thanks this info will help with my next gen planning :).
Right, but you have 90 days or you lose the promo credit added to your account. What happens if you redeem points to credit to your account and you can't get a preorder through Microsoft?
Also what happens if say, you redeem points on your account in June or whenever preorders open and 90 days pass? Did it lock in the promo credit so you won't lose it?
I guess I still don't follow how they handle charging for preorders when promo credit is used.
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So I just learned(via Xbox message) that reward points earned through Game Pass quests expire??? Apparently mine expire tomorrow and I'm a few hundred points short of getting another month of Ultimate..
Anyone else knew about this, kinda crummy
edit: I read above that points expire 18 months if you don't use them. But I use them every time I have enough for a month of ultimate which is every 2 months or so. So I'm pretty much just confused if I'm really gonna lose my points or not now (>.<)"
Anyone else knew about this, kinda crummy
edit: I read above that points expire 18 months if you don't use them. But I use them every time I have enough for a month of ultimate which is every 2 months or so. So I'm pretty much just confused if I'm really gonna lose my points or not now (>.<)"
I'd contact the rewards team about this because this is the first I've heard of this
I do gamepass quests, haven't redeemed since the 12 month gold option (using it to extend my ultimate sub) came back months ago and haven't received a notification in my email or Xbox messages about my points earned through gamepass expiring
ive been playing for 15 hours and only unlocked a handful lol, and they're mainly ones for doing x amount of things. I do t think there is such a thing as fast achievements in this game 🤣
Nope, on PC usually you can get only 100 points each month sadly.
That might be just for quests you have completed but not cashed in? That might even be about the trial of the new quest system? Check in the Game Pass app if you have any quests to turn in.
I get they want people to try new games, but at the same time they punish people who play games lol.
LOL Even if you play the games and beat them, most people don't get ALL the achievements.
I don't understand your point. So you are saying people shouldn't play a game to achievement completion in hopes that they'll ever become a quest?
No, I'm saying get over it. You just won't get the bonus points for The Witcher 3. Big Deal.
I'm saying you know how the game pass quests work now. So in future games, you may not want to get all the achievements in a game just in case they become a game pass quest.
so you agree with Microsoft punishing players for using the achievement system. Got it
It's not punishment. Not everything is about you. These are BONUS points. Not points that are owed to you. How about you change your outlook?
Not true. Depending on how old is your account, you can still redeem gift cards.
I'm grandfathered in and can redeeem 5$ and 10$ Amazon gift cards
I posted this in the Game Pass thread, but maybe here someone can help me better.
I've completed most of the quests for this month, but I'm having issues with the mobile app. It just doesn't see my Xbox, so I can't download anything to it. I've tried with both the stable and beta apps, reinstalling them, using them in different devices, fully shutting down my console, letting it unplugged for a while, signing out and signing in on my profile... Nothing works. Any ideas?
The funny thing is that I can delete games on my console from my phone. The app shows the storage from my console, but it just refuses to see it on in order to download games onto it.
I've completed most of the quests for this month, but I'm having issues with the mobile app. It just doesn't see my Xbox, so I can't download anything to it. I've tried with both the stable and beta apps, reinstalling them, using them in different devices, fully shutting down my console, letting it unplugged for a while, signing out and signing in on my profile... Nothing works. Any ideas?
The funny thing is that I can delete games on my console from my phone. The app shows the storage from my console, but it just refuses to see it on in order to download games onto it.
Did you make sure to turn on the setting on the console itself to allow remote downloads?
The gamepass app is pretty shit in this regard. It will work well in the normal xbox app but a crapshoot on the gamepass app.
Does this work even if I'm in Holland but my Xbox is set to USA? I have that because I like the store more on the USA and of course the prices too.
Most definitely. Double checked, twice.
Again, most definitely :P I still haven't found a way to make it work...
In other news, there's a pretty easy way to get 5000 pts if your are on the US. It's still easy in other places, but you do have to buy the FIFA points with money (2.50 of your local currency).
Source: Reddit
Hey matrixman92 Did you get your achievements in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt or The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt GOTY Edition? Because if you got them in the GOTY Edition then you can still get achievements and points in Game Pass because Game Pass uses the regular edition and for some reason they're are set as two different games with their own set of achievements
So here's a thing. Last night I was looking at quests to complete, and thought I'd see if there's a couple of quick achievements I could knock off in The Witcher 3. I became rather confused when I clicked through to the store page, then the game hub, and checked my achievements, to see I barely had any. I remembered that I didn't play a great deal of vanilla TW3, and instead double-dipped on the GOTY versions and completed that. I didn't realise they had separate achievement lists - I don't double dip very often at all, and just assumed it'd be the same list. Is this standard practise?
Anyway, my question: does anyone know if achievements earned in the GOTY version will count towards that quest? Anyone tried it?
EDIT Wow, I should have read up just one post!
/idiot
Anyway, my question: does anyone know if achievements earned in the GOTY version will count towards that quest? Anyone tried it?
EDIT Wow, I should have read up just one post!
/idiot
I'm sure I read those 2 different Witcher's save files are incompatible so it makes some sense that achievements are tied.
Btw, 20% off MS gift cards currently on now.
Btw, 20% off MS gift cards currently on now.
Are the MS gift cards really codes they email you? I read that they get applied directly to your account and expire in 90 days even though the listing says "digital code". My bing rewards account isn't my Xbox account so I would need to move the funds somehow.
They used to be digital codes they emailed you but it changed I believe last year and now they get applied directly to your account and expire in 90 days.
Do you know if there is a way to gift games so I can redeem them on a different account?
Great, thanks! Now to see if there is anything I actually want that won't go on sale before I get around to playing it :)
Does anyone know if the gamepads ultimate codes expire? They seem to have gotten rid all of the options except 1 month codes but I won't be able to redeem on my Xbox until I get under the 3 year cap. I have a different 3 month code that will expire in March that I need to redeem first so I would need to spread these 1 Month codes out from April through Sept if they don't expire.
I want to cash my account out and switch it to the account I have on my Xbox so I can do the gamepass challenges too. I wish they would just offer a way to merge accounts.
I want to cash my account out and switch it to the account I have on my Xbox so I can do the gamepass challenges too. I wish they would just offer a way to merge accounts.