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Yes you absolutely can do this. It will ask you "how do you want to pay the rest of this?"
cool, so i redeem the gift card and then the discount automatically happens? will buy soul hackers 2 this way
It'll be applied to your MS Account so you can use it on anything (consoles, Surfaces, games, whatever) and when you checkout you select gift card to apply your balance to it and it'll request a secondary payment to cover the remainder.
I have two different Edge Collections with 30+ Bing searches in each. First I click through one using standard Edge Mobile iOS browser and then I switch to "View Desktop Site" and do the other. That takes care of both my daily mobile and desktop searches in about a minute.
The "30+" should be adapted to how much you can earn in your country. If the max points per day for Mobile + Edge = 72 and you get 3 points per search then 72/3 = 24 searches inside the Edge Collection. Have a couple more than you need if you make an error while clicking maybe.
Wouldn't that potentially get flagged because you're searching the same things every day? If you mean bookmarks by collection?
So what's the optimal reward that you guys use your points on? Game pass or just Microsoft money?
I used to only use it on Game Pass but I've been putting it into Amazon monies recently.
I've been searching the same everyday for longer than a year now.
Collections is a Microsoft Edge feature that kind of works like bookmarks but is much easier to click through. If you are worried then alternate between more than two Collections. They are very easy to create, just make any search and add it to a Collection.
I've been doing the same search every day for months even before using Collections and nothing happened.
Yeah I use edge collections, too, on mobile. One for the mobile searches and one for the desktop ones, which I also do from my phone, lol. Much quicker but on a pc you can open all tabs on a folder at once and leave them loading which is even less involved.
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I was saving to basically get infinite game pass ultimate, but they just added Amazon vouchers so I got myself a kindle and think I will use the majority on peoples Christmas presents, and keeping my GPU afloat in 3 month blocks.
For me personally, it's a no-brainer to use it on MS/Xbox credit.
We already have the XBL Gold -> Game Pass Ultimate conversion to save huge amounts on Game Pass Ultimate. Many have been buying 3 years of Gold from different regions for like $80-$90 bucks and then converting it to GPU. So less than $100 for 3 years of GPU is pretty crazy.
So what I personally do is buy my 3 years of GPU with the conversion method, and then buy MS/Xbox gift cards on top of that to purchase any games I want that aren't part of Game Pass.
It pretty much equates to me, after that initial ~$100 3 year GPU purchase, having to pay $0 a year for virtually unlimited games.
Worked for me. It just does not work RIGHT AFTER I unlock an achievement. When I wait a few minutes and get back to the Rewards app, it unlocks the 50 pts.
It almost never works immediately after getting the achievement; I usually give it some time and come back later, but it was working the past week from my end.
So, I loaded up the app today and I'm completed for the week, even with 0/3 achievements?
I got an achievement and it stayed at 0/3, but still shows completed.
I got an achievement and it stayed at 0/3, but still shows completed.
On the Xbox? I just reached 89 weeks. On desktop? I'm like 9 days in after getting lazy last week 😅
Does anyone know if i could use a vpn to redeem my points or something? On my xbox, i get a message that my country is not supported but yet i have a bunch of points accumulated.
Yeah just console. I just do the weekly reward and some easy challenge like daily only when required. I could probably double points if I tried.
I have the 3x achievements challenge this week so just worked through the beginning of Trek to Yomi. It's an incredible looking game and very engaging.
Always has for me except the odd time. Just 2 days on the bounce seemed like something was up. Worked now though.
I'm on a 147 week stream. Don't think I've ever missed a week except around the time it launched when the weekly set disappeared and then came back again a while later.
Agreed, this is what i've done too. The 3 year Game Pass Ultimate is the cheapest way for Game Pass so that's a much better way to get it, and Xbox credit is the best bang for your buck redemption wise and there's enough games not on Game Pass that are useful for purchases. The only exception i've made was to save up credit for a XSX storage upgrade, but other then that it's just buying the one off game or movie.
Is yours complete early? Mine finished without me finishing it.
In terms of best bang for your buck, definitely Xbox credit. Even better than that is if you do the automatic monthly $10 xbox credit for 8750 pts.
I think putting them back into MS is best but I don't buy games anymore really. Hopefully by March next year I can do the 3 year gold upgrade again and keep my points stacked up.
yep. Only caveat is that the credit expires after 90 days, so you can't just harvest it a bunch, but can still get a decent chunk "off" other full price purchases
Yeah, for the people who are stockpiling pts, I don't recommend this option, since they do expire after 90 days, like you said. For the people who are constantly spending their pts within a short time frame after redeeming them, this option is awesome.
It's great for preparing for a new Halo Infinite season battle pass or saving two months worth for an indie game like a Death's Door at launch (that doesn't hit GP day 1) though
Yup, these use cases make perfect sense. I'm always looking to buy games from my huge wishlist, so this monthly deduction works out for me. And I can simply disable the automatic deduction anytime that I want if I there's nothing I want to buy.
What's the best conversion for gold to GPU from different regions. I'm familiar with that method. Hell, I didn't even know you could do that. Would you mind schooling me on this? I'd love to be able to spend $100 bucks for 3 years of GPU.
Why spend money at all on game pass if you rarely buy any games? Region shifting shenanigans may be cheaper tricks but still involve money. I just invest my points into getting gold+gamepass once my sub ends. No real money involved and I still have extra points to spend on ms store occasionally (just digital games, sales, cheaper preorders for now).
If I bought many more games, well, I wouldn't subscribe to game pass all the time for starters, only for short bursts for particular games. Then yeah, I'd spend my points on ms store credit. But also would probably rather get my games physically so I'd look into the Amazon gift cards although that's more point-expensive of course.
If I bought many more games, well, I wouldn't subscribe to game pass all the time for starters, only for short bursts for particular games. Then yeah, I'd spend my points on ms store credit. But also would probably rather get my games physically so I'd look into the Amazon gift cards although that's more point-expensive of course.
I've been getting back into making sure I earn the daily rewards points lately after slacking for a while.
I noticed that there's a daily 100 point achievement in the Xbox app for playing multiplayer on PC (plus 10 points for playing any game on PC). Does anyone have any suggestions for quick multiplayer games for getting this achievement each day?
I played Gang Beasts yesterday, and got the 100 points after a round of the football mode, which probably took about 3 to 5 minutes. So that may be one of the quickest, but I'm interested to see if anyone knows any that are even faster.
I noticed that there's a daily 100 point achievement in the Xbox app for playing multiplayer on PC (plus 10 points for playing any game on PC). Does anyone have any suggestions for quick multiplayer games for getting this achievement each day?
I played Gang Beasts yesterday, and got the 100 points after a round of the football mode, which probably took about 3 to 5 minutes. So that may be one of the quickest, but I'm interested to see if anyone knows any that are even faster.
If you connect your social accounts to Xbox you will get 250 points/day for playing an online PC game, plus 25 for playing a PC game.
You don't actually need to play the online game, just stay in the multiplayer lobby for a few minutes. I found out that AoE is great to do that, as in any time of the day there are games marked as not for real play but just to collect the points. This way you don't disturb/annoy any real player.
not online pc game anymore, i think it's fortnite through cloud gaming (which is also really fast too)
I basically do the same thing as you, but I do computer and mobile searches at the same time on my laptop.
In Edge, I have two folders filled with a bunch of search bookmarks of random things. I then ctrl+click the folder, and Edge asks me "Are you sure you want to open these bazillion tabs". I click okay and my laptop fan freaks out for a couple minutes.
I then do the same thing in the Brave browser, but I use a User-Agent extension to set the browser to iOS. Then I click another bookmark folder filled with other Bing searches. This usually takes care of all my searches in a couple minutes while I do something else in the morning.
I've literally done this for years now. The Brave+User Agent switcher broke at the start of the year for some reason, but a couple weeks later it started working again. I guess we'll see if I eventually get flagged, but I've already made out with a free Series X so I'm good either way!
It is still PC game here, and I think it is offered based on user, there are people that can't see this reward.
ohhhhh that makes more sense. maybe fortnite appears to me because i'm a GPU user?
Wow, congrats on the console. I prefer to do it on my phone because I am usually very far from my laptops on weekends and vacations, even if that was easier on workdays. I just got used to it and do it usually first thing after midnight, before bed, etc.