I dont think they expire - people are saving points to get a Series X which is the 6 digit range
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I dont think they expire - people are saving points to get a Series X which is the 6 digit range
I've been taking advantage of the rewards thing for about 5 months now - as has been noted many times there's plenty of foibles (ignoring 6 gays of login and game pass start of Jan mean I missed the 1000 by this be fault tak lol)
Does anyone get the one I do on my phone - every now and again it will login to the German version of rewards. I cannot get it the the English one.
Next day it's fine again but doesn't register any points from the day before
Does anyone get the one I do on my phone - every now and again it will login to the German version of rewards. I cannot get it the the English one.
Next day it's fine again but doesn't register any points from the day before
Where can I see if I'm able to get points through daily searching? I think it's not available in Brazil.
"Microsoft Rewards points will expire if there are no earning activities within 18 months."
How to earn Microsoft Rewards points - Microsoft Support
Learn how to earn Microsoft Rewards points when you browse the web with Microsoft Edge, search on Bing.com, and more.
support.microsoft.com
So as long as you keep earning, hoard away.
I'm just shy of 80K points and will probably cash out at 91K for a $100 MS gift card, which I'll bank away and get a Series X at some point.
It sure would be a nice holiday treat.
My Xbox One X can hold me down until then.
Just hit 110,000 so thats nice.
Just note that I think these cards expire within 3 months. Just FYI.
Just note that I think these cards expire within 3 months. Just FYI.
I average about 10K or so points every month so unless you plan on spending money to complete a lot of punch cards, I don't think you'll be able to get enough by the end of the year.
I get over 20k a month and I don't spend a dime on punch cards.
Those gift cards are only worth it if you know what you want to spend them on quickly because unlike the Target and Amazon gift cards, the MS cards expire within months of getting them. I like Amazon gift cards because they don't expire and I can use them to buy gaming gift cards when they're on sale.
"Microsoft Rewards points will expire if there are no earning activities within 18 months."
How to earn Microsoft Rewards points - Microsoft Support
Learn how to earn Microsoft Rewards points when you browse the web with Microsoft Edge, search on Bing.com, and more.
So as long as you keep earning, hoard away.
Oh yeah, I knew that. I was wondering how everyone determines when to use their points lol cause I'm still trying to think when and what I should use it on
In my case, I just use it as an ATM if some DLC or a cheap game on sale happens.
If you have the option, cash out on Amazon Credit, or one of the other gift card options.
Ah actually, I just looked and I have 11K points earned so far this month...maybe I miscounted but I really did think I averaged around 10K instead!
I've been doing the auto redeem thing because it seems to be the best points to dollar ratio and I spend that on games/DLC. The points I get beyond that I think I'll save until I have enough for the SSD expansion card. I have a hard time justifying spending $220 on 1TB of storage, but if it is paid for mostly with rewards points, it won't bother me as much.
I had no idea you could conceivably get enough points doing this to get an expansion card. Ive not been paying attention clearly.
To get $200 in Microsoft Store credit you would need roughly 182,000 points.
If you earn 15,000 points each month that would take you 12 months lol. I think the MSRP is around $210-220 or so for the SSD card.
I've said it multiple times but MS Rewards is a pretty great service.
They're not cards anymore. They deposit directly into your account and won't expire.
Are you sure they don't expire? I bought $150 or so when preordering the Series X and they were suppose to expire in 3 months.
Is the auto-redeem different or has their policy changed?
I have 21k from when I used to do it and just stopped. I should jump back in
The page SAYS it does. But I can't find anywhere where anyone said they lost the money or had it expire. The Payments page on my account no longer lists any expiration dates for my promotional credit. People have said they've had it for years and have been fine.
It feels like it's a warning, but not actually a rule.
I wouldn't sit on it too long, but it truly feels like they did away with it and forgot to update the page.
It feels like it's a warning, but not actually a rule.
I wouldn't sit on it too long, but it truly feels like they did away with it and forgot to update the page.
You can go to Settings > Account > Payment & Billing and see exactly when your credit expires.
I live in the UK and have been keeping a spreadsheet for the last few months, the average is likely around 15k here - I pretty much rinse the hell out of it so I can't imagine you get much more.
There is the caveat that over the last few months there's been quite a few bonus points, a couple of 10k and 2k ers - I think also a 5k or something like that? So I've earn around 80k in the last 4 months - but apparently the bonus ones don't come up to his frequently normally...also the 10k gets harder each time as you take out the easier games and have to start putting in the time (and is it actually worth the time playing a game you're not enjoying for 5 hours for the sake of £1!?).
Be nice if the bonus points did become more common- that's around £200 in points per year free money!
I also got a $50 gift card from elsewhere recently. I thought my account ONLY had Rewards credit on it at the moment, so when I was digging around to see when it'd expire, I couldn't find it.
Oh ok. I can see the confusion now. Xbox Gift Cards bought with money don't expire.
The credit expires indeed. I have an email that says my spare 2 cents (after buying something) are expiring in a couple weeks or something.
Edit: yep, it expires exactly 3 months after my last purchase, and I got a remainder a month before the future expiry date.
Edit: yep, it expires exactly 3 months after my last purchase, and I got a remainder a month before the future expiry date.
Anybody else having issues getting into rewards right now? I'm getting errors on all apps and devices.
Edit: Looks like an outage.
Edit: Looks like an outage.
My GamePass phone app is able to trigger my daily login and when I play a Game Pass game. But it won't let me take credit for the points because it cannot load my points balance. I logged out and back into the app but still have the same result.
Down for me too in the UK.
On console it takes ages to load my quests then asks me to try again later when it finally loads.
On IOS app it puts up the quests but when I go to turn them in it asks me to join rewards, even though my account is loading up my current points total.
On console it takes ages to load my quests then asks me to try again later when it finally loads.
On IOS app it puts up the quests but when I go to turn them in it asks me to join rewards, even though my account is loading up my current points total.
Cashed in points a couple months ago and got a Series controller.
I actually like using Bing. I use image search all the time for my job and I have to say it's far superior to Google in that department.
I actually like using Bing. I use image search all the time for my job and I have to say it's far superior to Google in that department.
I've finally had a punch card not register any points...I've spent $30 through the spend $40 on anime titles for Anime Month (and get 4k points) on my XSX. After several days passing from my initial purchase, it's still showing that I've spent 0 dollars on the promo. I then tried e-mailing Microsoft Rewards Help, but the person I spoke to there wasn't exactly the sharpest tool in the shed. I think I'm gonna just gonna give up on this punch card...I did get some great anime at super cheap prices, at least!
Unable to get any of the game pass quests for the week to pop today. Hopefully they just show up later on their own. And the daily play a game pass game one isnt working either. login to the app did work.
Having the same problem. Haven't tried the weekly quests yet, but the play a game pass game won't pop for me, but I had no problem with the app login.
They finally showed up for me after a few minutes, same for weekly quests, it too at least 15 minutes to show up.
I came to ask but I see it's happening to other people. Play a game from Game Pass daily task didn't pop up today for me.
I hear you! I have an uncanny knack of unlocking achievements just after midnight, it seems, and of course, the AMEM reward doesn't work then (nor 'pop' the next day, either).
The Control weekly quest is to unlock a power, not fully upgrade a power surely?
EDIT: None of the quests are even tracking for me, let alone popping.
EDIT: None of the quests are even tracking for me, let alone popping.
Basically anything that requires you to specifically boot a game isnt working for me. Control, play a game pass game, and the one for earning 3 achievements or playing 3 different games isnt tracking.
Maybe they are having issues again this evening as all of these worked perfectly for me this afternoon just doing them on my phone via xCloud.