Was gonna knock out some Switch Minecraft achievements today and was assuming they'd count too. Haven't heard anyone mention them though.
Achievements from iOS definitely counted last time. I did a bunch there.
I don't believe it is supposed to. The 10k you can get is from the GS points you "earn" by playing the games, as GS on it's own does not normally add to your Rewards points. This is how it worked last time as well, although someone (in this thread?) did mention they seemed to get an additional 10k bonus, I feel that might be an outlier mistake.
I'm interested in this too, what's the most cost efficient way to buy/get GPU?
I figure you lose 25 points every 4 days rather than a potential 250-300 when you miss a long streak. I would always screw up at weekends so it works better for me...less of a risk and it only costs me ~6 points per day.
A couple people reported they got an extra 10k but that was probably a bug/glitch.
More or less. With level 2 rewards for me it's 9300 points for 10€ I think. For now I'm not doing it this time apart from activating and playing normally. We'll see maybe next week.
Okay thank you. Do you only get the points if you get 10k or if I earn like 3k in GS will I get 3k in rewards points?
I'm curious, how does the math work out for people getting Gamepass Ultimate for their Xbox console?
I'm purely a PC guy and I can get a month of PC Gamepass every 20 days or so just from searching and those daily quizzes. Gamepass Ultimate is more expensive but I know that gets you more points from playing on console, getting achievements and stuff.
I'm purely a PC guy and I can get a month of PC Gamepass every 20 days or so just from searching and those daily quizzes. Gamepass Ultimate is more expensive but I know that gets you more points from playing on console, getting achievements and stuff.
I can only speak from Canadian experience but I think this is similiar to US too.
Xbox has the Microsoft Rewards app where each week has a set of 3 tasks that earn you 100 points and for streaks of 10 weeks you get a bonus 2500 points. Throughout the week there are often offers for 5 points each. Every day there is an offer for 50 points for earning an achievement in any Xbox game. You do not need gamepass to earn these points.
With the gamepass mobile app (I cannot find any concrete info if you can log into it with a Gamepass PC subscription but I suspect you can) if you do all the quests you are going to earn approximately 2000 points per month. If you have ultimate there is usually a bit of a bump on one of the quests (ie get an extra 50 points with ultimate) but really nothing major (so far at least). Assuming you can access the mobile app with Gamepass PC you could probably earn a good chunk of the 2000 with Gamepass PC games but the biggest hurdle might be some of the quests may be for games that are only on the console Gamepass.
TLDR: on console if you were to do every single quest / task (excluding the bonus offers for buying specific games / DLC) you are looking at approximately 4k in points per month. This month there is a quest to get the equivalent gamescore you earn in rewards points but those have not been that frequent.
Hope this helps.
Not really. If you can play some of the stuff that gives you 1,000 points in like 5-10 minutes that's one thing but I'm not going to play something I have no interest in for even an hour or two to get 1,000 points just because it's 'free' money. My time is worth more than getting $1 an hour. I'm just using the promo as an opportunity to play some shorter Gamepass I actually want to play but have always been put on the backburner. If I can get a few dollars out of it while also playing stuff I actually want to play that's fine with me.
I stopped playing games last night and just went to play something else. This morning I woke up to find the score had fixed itself to be more correct. I think it was just a slow period, but it looks correct for me now. So it seems like it will still count your points, but if it is lagging behind, that's pretty much what it is - lagging behind.
Hmm, alright. So combining that with the 8K or so you can get from Bing every month, you could feasibly get enough for Gamepass Ultimate most months. Thanks.
Like I said, this was purely for curiosity's sake. I've got no intention of getting an Xbox console myself, I was just curious if console peeps got the same kinda deal as PC users solely relying on Bing, since GP-U takes so many more points and there isn't a plain GP-console option.
The Gamepass mobile app is still usable if you're just on Gamepass PC, obviously, but you don't get any quests. I converted my sub to Gamepass Ultimate for a few months and I got weekly quests for playing Gamepass games on my PC, but that was only five points a week. If you just have a PC sub, you don't get those, but if you have an Ultimate sub and a Windows machine that's at least capable of playing some low end games on GP-PC like Opus Magnum, Among Us, Dead Cells, etc., it might be worth pulling them up.
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You get the g as rewards points as soon as you get them as far as I've seen
This is my stance as well. I will do some of the easy games that can be done on PC or xCloud during the day while I'm working, but for my "free" time I usually only focus on games I would like to play anyways. Fortunately, I've had Edith Finch in my backlog for a while now so I took advantage of the promo to get the 1000 GS on that.
I'll probably play the LucasArts games as I've wanted to give those a play again (I played them originally when they came out on PC), but I don't see myself grinding away on games I don't enjoy. If I hit 10,000 then great, if not that's fine too (last time I made it to around 8k).
I honestly don't know if I've ever been able to redeem that. Any time I think about it after getting an achievement, I select "earn now" but I never get a checkmark.
Yeh it constantly crashes. Had no issues redeeming the daily achievement thing before despite this but today its totally borked. Also not tracked my achievements within the 10k card - hoping its just a matter of time and they'll eventually show up
Don't do it for 75 points. Seems no one really knows which monsters count and the game takes hours to really get going. If you are interested in trying out the game then maybe the 75 points can be a carrot but if your goal is the points then skip it. Not worth it.
It works most of the time, though a few times this past week it has bugged out. On occasion I do need to close it/restart and it'll work.
Hmm the cards in the Rewards app have moved around so it's a pain to get to the GP challenges now (have to go via Achievements tab)
I'm 99 percent sure any of the main creatures count. I have vague memories of doing it years ago with a great jagras which is the first thing you're sent to get in the game . I don't think it took ages but there is a bit of tutorialling to get through.
Some are saying Great Jagras don't work on TrueAchievements. Either way, you will be spending a couple of hours to get something that's worth like $0.08.
I'm in Europe and only play on console. There's a console only rewards app with some daily/weekly points, especially the daily achievement thing, otherwise not much I guess. I don't play on pc but I sub with ultimate because it was cheaper via gold conversion at first and then it's cheaper to just accumulate gold/pc pass via rewards and convert it back to ultimate (instead of redeeming ultimate). I get about 11k points a month and that's enough for it to get itself paid in that way. And then some.
I don't think it'd be worth the time anyway. Don't, not for 75. The game is awesome, though.
It took me like an hour to do it. That said, I've played through the game on PC, so I knew what to do, and killed the monster in 2 minutes.
Between the cutscenes that can't be skipped and long-ish tutorial, I'd say a new player might take an hour and a half.
As for which monster counts, The Great Jagras unlocks it for a new save, which is the first proper hunt in the game. (At least, it did for me).
But yeah, it's not worth it if you don't want to be bothered with the game's complicated mechanics
It's a real POS, lol. It crashes literally after every single action I do.
Open a link, go back, freezes and crashes.
Activate something... crashes after.
Redeem something... crashes.
If it weren't for the MS emails telling me some of the stuff went through I wouldn't know.
Yeh its insane how often it crashes. I have to open it a good four or five times to actually get through everything due to it crashing to the home screen every other click (and even then a lot don't seem to register).
I'm more than halfway through Superhot and I have just 3 achievements to go. The last one is very dumb (you have to have the game running for 2 and a half hours) so I dunno if I'll do it.
Ok good to know. Someone else here got great jagras to work so it may be the tracking in the app that's glitchy.
As everyone said, not really worth it for 75 PTS unless someone wants an excuse to try the game.
Ah ok cool, thanks! I've done all my weekly's this week, might take a look at the monthly's whilst I wait...
My apologies if this has been answered before, but do Game Pass PC games count towards the 10k promotion?
Thank you. Now I must weight other factors, but I have a few easy options on the PC side for this promotion. I've stuck to things I actually want to play and achievements that raise my ratio on Trueachievements.
Yeh theres an easy 3/4000 on PC which can be done in maybe 15 mins, I just did them whilst windowed and doing other stuff. Games like The Gardens Between / What Remains Of Edith Finch were an easy 1000 and both games I wanted to play so win win.
So I'm over 3K so far in a few days which is crazy to think about given how long I have been sitting around this gamerscore. Don't Starve on PC was no effort for 1K which was cool, Gardens Between was neat, and I've just been doing a few other things here and there.
I feel like the 50 point rewards are making me get achievements when I wouldn't otherwise. Luckily I was half-way through Little Acre when I hit 10k, so on days when I don't naturally get achievements (or don't play much) I can just open it up and get to the next achievement. 50 reward points per day adds up to a fair amount over time. After I finish Little Acre (which is a cute and fun game) I'll have to find another game that can work for that purpose.