It's Microsoft Rewards time! In addition to the new March 2023 Monthly Bonus Round punch card on Xbox, we've got a second punch card once again this month in which you can acquire an extra 500 points in less than an hour.
The punch card is called "Powerful Women of Game Pass" and requires you to obtain three achievements (rather than the usual one) from a list of Xbox Game Pass games.
There are a few ways you can tackle this. Firstly, if you're looking for a video guide, the excellent Rewards Hunter has provided a solution for Mirrors Edge Catalyst which you can watch down below:
Alternatively, the easiest game in which you can complete three achievements is probably Contrast.
Here are the achievements that you'll be able to obtain quickly:
- Contrast - A New Dimension
When you shift into a shadow for the first time (unmissable after a couple of minutes), you'll get an achievement.
- Contrast - Illuminated
You'll find luminaries scattered throughout Contrast (they're little balls of light). Find two of them, and the achievement will pop. There are seven luminaries in Act 1 alone.
- Contrast - Not That Kind Of Game!
Early in the story, when the game tells you to go to the Ghost Note Theater, go past it and search for the building that says "Dirty" along with a 24-hour sign. Press X on the door here, and you'll get the achievement.
You'll find more help for Contrast by watching the following Welsh Hunter achievement walkthrough:
The Powerful Women of Game Pass punch card is available throughout March 2023, so you've still got until March 31st to complete it. We've verified that it's available in at least the US and UK.
If you're new to all of this, we've got a few guides about the program here at Pure Xbox, including how to make 20,000 points per-month with Microsoft Rewards - or even more in some cases!
Have you got any easy suggestions to help complete this punch card? Tell us down below!
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So the monthly quests have gotten more complicated, and now these need three rather than one. Looks like someone's decided that the Rewards program is too generous.
Recore looks like it might have three easy achievements if you’ve never played it before.
Do we know if all three achievements have to be in the same game? Or can I get one achievement in three different games and still get the points?
Been meaning to give Chorus a play so this was perfect timing.
Contrast is supposedly a very quick experience, so scoring three achievements in it probably shouldn't take too long.
Supposedly Little Witch doesn't even have achievements.
Played most of these already unfortunately, so it looks like I'll be giving Chorus a try
@LunarFlame17 Any Achievement on any game in the list. Doesn't have to be the same game.
Little Witch in the Woods and Slime Rancher 2 don't even have achievements. Those are the two I was actually interested in because I've played and finished everything except Dreamscaper and Moonscars. Action roguelike and soulslike metroidvania, both I had already tried and genres I want nothing to do with lol
I think Dreamscaper might have a few easy ones at least though.
Too bad I've played a number of these games already. I've completed Plague Tale Requiem, Gunk, and Chorus. Right now, Moonscars is on the playlist, low rotation. I just about quit ReCore and Contrast long ago.
Like others, I have pretty much played through the ones I was interested in. I have some interest in Plague Tale and ReCore, but they were not high on my list
@PhileasFragg This was expected. I did the 3-year conversion from XBL in June 2020. My current Game Pass Ultimate sub expires May 27, 2025. I added 3 months on Jan. 23 and my point count is at 32,849 of 35,000 needed for another 3-month extension.
At some point, MS has to make the Rewards points harder to come by, raise prices, and/or lower the point-to dollar-conversion ratio. What kind of profit they pull in from more people using Bing is unknown to me. I'm already in the Xbox ecosystem, though without Game Pass, I would play on and buy on PC more than I already do.
@PhileasFragg Yeah, at this point it's very close to not being worth my effort at all. It's a real shame as the rewards program is a huge factor in my spending so much more time/money on Xbox vs Switch or Steam.
Does this one work though? The last one was broken. Unlocking an achievement on mass effect 3 did NOT work and nor did Lost in Random. Eastword was the only one that did
@theduckofdeath Nope. Forget that they are a billion dollar company to whom this is a drop in the ocean, and forget that most people will need to buy a GPU subscription to even have a chance at a lot of these. Tons of people just use points to get discounted games (games they may not have bought otherwise). Plenty of people also donate their points, which helps Microsoft as a tax write-off (something they would do anyways even without the points program so it literally costs them nothing). Plus it's free publicity and greatly increases engagement with the Bing/Xbox ecosystem. And only the most hardcore (us) really come close to using this program to it's full potential; plenty of people don't complete every quest. Finally plenty of people buy stuff they wouldn't otherwise just to get those "buy $50 of movies to get 5000 bonus points" they offer, or buy something digitally because they get points back for the purchase
Even if you are right and the rewards program doesn't generate profit (and who knows for sure one way or the other) it's still valuable for the goodwill it provides to the fanbase. And everytime somebody posts a weekly/monthly quest guide to a craphole like reddit or a site like true achievements that's free advertising for GPU and potentially more subscribers, while encouraging others to play games they wouldn't otherwise and thereby increasing reliance on GPU for gaming.
So no, MS by no means has to devalue the program. As I said before, this program is a huge part of why I play Xbox over Switch or Steam but if they devalue it anymore then it really won't be worth my time and I will no longer feel pressured to turn on the Xbox every day. That means less time in the Xbox store, more time on the Switch eShop. I am certain I am not alone in this.
Has anyone had any trouble getting this to work? I managed to get the first 3 achievements in Contrast... but nothing triggered and it won't show as completed?
It worked for me with Moonscars. It's pretty easy to get 3 in the first 20 minutes of the game.
Make it to the 2nd mirror, about 10 mins into the game, which takes you to the sculptor and you will make a clayborn mould for the 1st achv.
Then select the hammer as your special weapon, it stuns enemies, you need to stun 25 enemies for the 2nd achv.
Die 10 times for the 3rd achv. Dying is the thing you will be doing most in this game anyway.
Dumb crap didn't even work for me. I got 4 achievements in Mirror's Edge and 3 in Contrast and it doesn't f work.
What a ***** show.
I tried with Contrast last night and still not working.
So this finally went through last night.
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