Game Pass

[HungryHippos]

I have the auto-redeem option on both desktop and console. I'm sitting on almost 100,000 points right now - will probably cash out in either MS store credit or Amazon giftcards. I haven't broken any TOS, but I don't trust Microsoft not to wield the banhammer on innocent parties.

Where do you see this one?

Lol just been on the MicrosoftRewards subreddit, some people are getting a notice that they can only get points for 3 searches every 15 mins:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftRewards/comments/18a3lut/good_bye_ms/

If this hits the UK I will definitely have to stop I think, that is awful

 

[xaldub]

Where do you see this one?

Lol just been on the MicrosoftRewards subreddit, some people are getting a notice that they can only get points for 3 searches every 15 mins:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftRewards/comments/18a3lut/good_bye_ms/

If this hits the UK I will definitely have to stop I think, that is awful

Yup, I saw that yesterday evening. If that ruling is forced on all of us, I'll stop doing Bing searches. Will still carry on with the Xbox app rewards since that's a very easy 300 points/daily, but I fear that will nerfed before long. At that point I'm out ... back to PC/steam, the occasional PS5 exclusive and Switch for handheld. Goodbye Xbox.

 

[gilljoy]

Whats the current cheapest way of getting gamepass?

 

[jklc]

Where do you see this one?

Lol just been on the MicrosoftRewards subreddit, some people are getting a notice that they can only get points for 3 searches every 15 mins:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftRewards/comments/18a3lut/good_bye_ms/

If this hits the UK I will definitely have to stop I think, that is awful

Thankfully haven't seen this yet. It seems like they're cracking down on people abusing the system or people not searching "in good faith" as they like to put it. Before the recent nerfing I regularly hit up to 30k a month. Last month was 22k which is still pretty good for a free thingy they're doing. I'll probably stick around to the bitter end.

 

[loftie]

Auto redeem AFAIK has always been available on an actual XBOX, the desktop I saw mentioned a little while back but it's not there for me.

At the moment you need to earn 10,500 points per month to get one month of ( auto-redeem ) GPU. Without auto redeem it's 12,000 points. If the Xbox app rewards ( for playing a PC game etc ) get nerfed then that will be a hard task. On Reddit this evening there is news of further nerfs to the Rewards program for Bing searches. The program has taken a real hammering these last 2 weeks ; lots of accounts being suspended ( sometimes with hundreds of thousands points lost ) and people having difficulty, or being denied the option to trade in points for Amazon gift cards etc.

With autoredeem that's 126,000k points a year for GPU, assuming the auto redeem works. £80 of *insert supermarket voucher of choice here (or amazon)* is 121,600 points, depending on price you can pick up of GP Core, I suspect you'll still get more for your points by redeeming vouchers and buying core and then converting. I can currently see core for £39, so with 3 of those and a month GPU, it works out £63.50 per year. TBH, that's closer than what I was expecting but it still works out better, and if you see any lower prices for core it'll improve the value (i.e. if you use a vpn, which i don't)

 

[jrwagh333]

Just subbed to GamePass for the first time. It came bundled with my gaming laptop I got last year but only just have got around to having enough free time to make it worthwhile. Got 3 months of it that I'll be using on PC and Cloud.

 

[xaldub]

Auto redeem AFAIK has always been available on an actual XBOX, the desktop I saw mentioned a little while back but it's not there for me.

With autoredeem that's 126,000k points a year for GPU, assuming the auto redeem works. £80 of *insert supermarket voucher of choice here (or amazon)* is 121,600 points, depending on price you can pick up of GP Core, I suspect you'll still get more for your points by redeeming vouchers and buying core and then converting. I can currently see core for £39, so with 3 of those and a month GPU, it works out £63.50 per year. TBH, that's closer than what I was expecting but it still works out better, and if you see any lower prices for core it'll improve the value (i.e. if you use a vpn, which i don't)

Converting GP Core is complicated now - I believe it's 2:3 conversion for someone without an active GP subscription and 1:3 for someone with an active sub. And, on top of that if you start stacking vouchers/codes you get a diminishing amount eg. 3 x 20 days of Core gets you 50 days of GPU not 60. It's messy, I'd need to sit down and thrash out the arithmetic of it all to see what's the cheapest option now.

 

[loftie]

Converting GP Core is complicated now - I believe it's 2:3 conversion for someone without an active GP subscription and 1:3 for someone with an active sub. And, on top of that if you start stacking vouchers/codes you get a diminishing amount eg. 3 x 20 days of Core gets you 50 days of GPU not 60. It's messy, I'd need to sit down and thrash out the arithmetic of it all to see what's the cheapest option now.

AFAIK it's core 3:2 ultimate, so 3 years core converted will get you 2 years ultimate. With an active sub, unless they've changed it, the conversion rate changed depending on the time you're converting. I don't think adding on to an existing sub was ever worth it but things may have changed. There was a table somewhere on the game pass website, i think it was in their FAQs.

 

[Vandle]

Picked up a gaming laptop for "work" in the BF sales. Keen to try it out. I have GP Ultimate from my xbox but barely use it. I haven't gamed on a PC for 15 years or so. Anything good on there I may have missed? I see C&C remaster is on but sadly no Generals in the bundle but it still looks a little primitive. Currently downloading AOE4.

Edit - played most of the FPS & 3Ps games on there.

 

[HungryHippos]

Looks like the game pass rewards is being gutted yet further:

Reddit - Dive into anything

www.reddit.com

I could probably make my script just spread searches out by about 5 mins and sit there running, bit annoying though, I guess that would also make it easier to detect that I was botting them.

I may give up the scheme soon, it's just getting harder and more annoying, but will at least cash in my last voucher first.

 

[picnic]

If you use Reward points to renew your Game Pass then there is a sale on the Redeem page currently. 28K points for 3 months Ultimate.

 

[HungryHippos]

That's pretty good, my ultimate with BT runs until end of Feb though, I think I get control back after that.

PC Game Pass 3 months is 19000 as well (normally 7750 for one month), so a little cheaper to get 3.

Does anyone know how these redemptions work if you already have game pass? does it just give me a code I can apply later? do I need to redeem it within a certain time frame?

 

[ic1male]

That's pretty good, my ultimate with BT runs until end of Feb though, I think I get control back after that.

PC Game Pass 3 months is 19000 as well (normally 7750 for one month), so a little cheaper to get 3.

Does anyone know how these redemptions work if you already have game pass? does it just give me a code I can apply later? do I need to redeem it within a certain time frame?

You get a code which is valid for 1 year, IIRC. I’ve stopped doing the rewards now after all this palaver.

 

[HungryHippos]

If anyone wants my search script let me know, it's configurable so you can make it sleep for 5 mins between searches and let it run.

Warning: Don't do this if you have a lot of points as it could get you banned from Rewards! I risk it because without my script it's a pain/not worth doing, so either I script it and maybe get banned, or I don't do it, and I get nothing.

 

[Jono8]

If you use Reward points to renew your Game Pass then there is a sale on the Redeem page currently. 28K points for 3 months Ultimate.

Can you add the code to a current subscription do you know?

 

[HungryHippos]

You should be able to if it's the same tier, I can't yet as I'm stuck on controlled BT version and it's ultimate vs the PC one which I'd probably buy instead as I don't have a console.

 

[picnic]

Can you add the code to a current subscription do you know?

I have and you can add more than one. But as @ic1male said the codes are valid for a year so you could sit on it if you wanted, or gift it ( to me? )

 

[HungryHippos]

I've redeemed a 3 month PC game pass one for 19000 points, and will see if I can do another in a few days, expiry for 1st one is set to 2025-01-12T00:00:00Z

Interesting to see if 2nd one I get has a slightly later date.

In any case, when my GPU expires at end of Feb, I will be able to get most of the remainder of 2024 re-subscribed for free.

I've changed my search script to add a 5 min delay to searches to work around the timeout thing, as long as the PC is on it will search periodically, it might be more efficient to do batches of 3 searches in a roughly 15 minute delay instead.

 

[Dark Light]

Point are being nerfed further, the gaming tab points are gone today and just seen this.

 

[HungryHippos]

Point are being nerfed further, the gaming tab points are gone today and just seen this.

Yep I posted about this one a few up, post #101, it's kind of rubbish but I have a script that does my searches, so I've had to space them out a bit.

Happy to share my script if anyone wants it, but fair warning, using it could get you banned.

I just redeemed my 2nd 3 month PC game pass code, so I can stack 6 months of it next year, I don't think I will get another before the sale ends though.