If you haven't heard of Microsoft Rewards before, it's a system that allows you to earn redeemable points by completing Bing searches, Xbox Game Pass Quests and more. These points can then be used to acquire various gift cards, such as Xbox and Microsoft currency, as well as competition entries and charity donations.
While you can redeem these rewards at any time, Microsoft is also now offering a new option (in some regions) for Xbox Gift Cards specifically, allowing you to redeem them at a discount for every month you can afford them.
There are a couple of downsides to this, however - Microsoft says it will no longer be running any special "Hot Deals" offers in which Xbox Gift Cards are sometimes discounted for a set time via Microsoft Rewards, and you will still need to spend your Xbox Gift Card within 90 days of deposit.
Ultimately then, this is a great offer for those who want to convert their Microsoft Rewards points into Xbox credit at the lowest price and as quickly as possible every month, but if you're saving up for something more expensive, we suggest stacking those points and avoiding the new auto redeem option for now.
Do you use Microsoft Rewards on Xbox? Will you be setting up auto redeem? Let us know below.
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I think that I CAN FINALLY GET SAM AND MAX
if only I had a ps3 to get the final game...
I started using it when I got my Xbox but I just never seemed to build up enough points so I opted out
If you've got the free time, it's a great service.
From doing Game Pass quests to simply searching using Bing every day.
I'm personally using it to pay for my Game Pass Ultimate each month.
I love Microsoft Rewards & use it everyday. It just paid for a huge chunk of the cost of the Forza Horizon 4 expansions I bought. 👍🏻
Seems to take about 3 weeks for me to earn a £5 voucher. That's doing the max bing searches on mobile and PC and edge browser, all the extras on the rewards page (daily quizzes, polls etc) and opening the xbox gamepass app on mobile daily.
I've been using this since it launched in beta. Even had a Windows Phone back in the day and go those extra points.
Over the years I've used them to exclusively pay for a couple hundred dollars worth of video games. Not bad given that all I'm doing is using Bing, as normal, to look up things.
its a excellent service which not everyone knows about
@fraserg i know this was an old post but i have a question. Let's say i have 50K points and i sign up for the auto redeem function....will it redeem the full 50K worth of points towards gift cards at the discounted rate in one go? Basically does it make sense to stock up on points and use auto redeem to stretch my points balance as far as it can go?
@Krzzystuff As far as I know, auto redeem will just give you a £5 /$5 gift card, and then you'll have to wait until next month to get another one, so it's only good if you want small gift cards every month.
If you have 50k points, I'd stay away from auto redeem and just save up and spend it on the bigger gift cards when you're ready.
@FraserG greatly appreciated!
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