The most recent batch of Xbox Game Pass Quests went live for March 2022 yesterday, and while the majority of them are the same as usual, there are a few notable changes you're going to want to be aware of.
Most importantly, the dailies have been shifted around a lot. The "Play a Game" Quest now only gives you 3 points per-day rather than 5 points, and the extra five for logging into the Xbox Game Pass mobile app has been removed entirely.
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On paper, this might look like a bit of an annoyance, but it's counteracted by a few things. Firstly, as highlighted above, the requirements for the 1000-point "Quest Completionist" task have been made significantly easier, so you're not going to lose out there. All you need to do is "Play a Game" 22 out of 31 days in March and complete 12 weeklies.
Plus, Microsoft is running a variety of other Microsoft Rewards punch cards this month that will allow you to gain hundreds if not thousands more points by completing certain tasks. If you're part of the new Xbox mobile app trial for Microsoft Rewards as well, you could be making thousands of points every single week with ease.
A few changes, then, but you're still going to earn plenty of points this month no matter what. If you need extra help with Xbox Game Pass Quests, we've got a guide to help you complete the game-specific tasks elsewhere on Pure Xbox.
Have you noticed these changes to Xbox Game Pass Quests? Let us know down in the comments below.
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For those of us in Canada these changes — combined with the pre-existing differences — sort of make the Game Pass Quests a waste of time in my opinion.
@101Force im in canada also and its definitely annoying, but its only a hit of about 400-500 points a month max. you can still make a lot of points by doing everything else. it would be nice if we got some of the other punchcards that are in other locations
This is a bad change for everyone except the people in the US and UK I guess. The rest of the world doesn't really have all the bonus rewards that those people have. It's double sad considering we pay more per game compared to those countries as well
Honestly kind of glad they got rid of the mobile app one it was hit or miss whether I got credit for it and I didn’t always remember to do it.
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@Grahamthecracker Same with me. I had to do it twice for it to work every time.
The Bing reward quizzes etc still work.
@Xiovanni +1, but somehow gamers today seem to love turning games into chores. From cooldowns, to quests, to trophies/achievements, etc, etc, the chore seems to be the fun thing. I swear people must do their own tax audits for amusement.
@Xiovanni most quests aren't a chore though. It's mostly open a game, earn an achievement or do those several times in a week. It's free money for making a concerted effort to just turn on your Xbox and use it. I've never been one for achievement hunting, I get what I get on that front but I don't see the rewards as effort and I get gamepass basically paid for by turning my Xbox on for 2 minutes each day.
As others said the annoyance for most people is they aren't American or British so get very little in the way if rewards, and even less now their schemes have been scaled back like this.
I really like the Microsoft Rewards system, coupled along with Game Pass Quests. It allows you to try new games, and earn money as you do it. I've calculated that on average you are likely to make at least 9000 points (over £5 worth) a month, and that excludes the additional bonus quests etc. All it takes is around 10 minutes per day. In a year it gets close to £100, again with the bonus quests etc it can get even higher.
This is the UK of course, not sure how different it is elsewhere, but the rewards are worth it when you've saved up enough for a new piece of hardware or game, or your next Game Pass sub.
@BBB At least game pass includes the yardwork simulator. Not as much fun as the audit or trying to reach capable customer service through the menu loop at a phone company, but it's something to pass the time, I guess.
@NEStalgia I like to not pay for things on xbox so I do the rewards program. If people like to spend extra money they can send it to me. 🙃
Paid $20 for ten months of game pass mostly with the rewards program and a Black Friday deal. The quests make me try new games or have fun in a new genre.
@Xiovanni Thank you! And amen!
@NEStalgia Personally for fun, I think they lock themselves in a small, dark, closet, get on their knees, whip their backs with leather straps until bleeds, looking at a FromSoftware game poster.
But that's just my opinion.
@GuyinPA75 That's an entire subreddit!
@Phantom_Anima My wife picks up around 11,000-12,000 points a month, and that’s without GamePass rewards or the rewards from the Xbox app. With the Game Pass and Xbox app ones as extra I got 25,000 points last month. So in the UK at least it’s easy to make decent points. And generally neither of us do the daily achievement ones, usually only when we need to get 3 achievements in a week if we spread the 3 achievements out over 3 days
@Grahamthecracker, same here, so many times I forgot to login to the gamepass app on my phone, even missed the 1k monthly quest cause of it, so I don't really mind the omission of that one, overall I really like the reward system, it's free store credit after all, 95% of the quests aren't that difficult, it's basically just play games, which we all do right?. Last month or so I spent all my points on Dying Light Platinum edition, and now I'm almost at 10k points again (got the 20 week quest streak which netted 2.5 k).
@SubjectNine that's interesting as I mostly keep up to date with most of mine (I try do most of the daily quests on the website and xbox, and game pass but do miss the odd days and weekends). I've accumulated over 25,000 since January. I'm guessing it's because I miss some days so my daily/weekly bonus is lower? I also live in the UK, I've been trying to gain enough points to get a big discount on the Seagate Expandable SSD so any advice is welcome
@Phantom_Anima We find it's just a case of making sure you do your daily sets for mobile and PC searches, as this nets you about 200 points a day minimum, and making sure you keep up on your weekly sets on Xbox. I got the 80 week bonus on mine during Feb, so I got the 10 week 2500 bonus points. Also keep an eye out for any punch cards on the Xbox dashboard that you qualify for, as these can help. I personally try to save the achievement ones for the 3 achievements in a week to help with that one.
And a point that many people may or may not know, achievements in their phone games (such as Sudoku) count towards the weekly set achievements (although not the Game Pass ones if they come back) if you don't have the time to play an Xbox or PC game to get the achievements needed for that week.
They may have removed a paltry number of points but this is a big win. Logging into the app was an extra unnecessary step that took an unbalanced amount of time vs the rewards.
@NEStalgia There's truth to what you say, but at the same time there can be some tangible rewards.
I've got almost 2 years of Game Pass Ultimate and a couple of games for free for spending just a couple of minutes a day on this, you quickly learn how to fast track it and do it in otherwise dead time.
Plus I have saved almost £150 credit up which i'm aiming to get a 1TB Xbox Seagate Expansion Card for free.
@themightyant People are acting like this is a second job which is some serious hyperbole. It takes like you said just a couple minutes and is well worth the reward. I have not spent a penny on GamePass to date.
@themightyant Yeah, I know there's real reward money in it, but when you already have to-do lists 30 deep for both work and home.....adding to it for this seems like quite the overkill
@GuyinPA75 some people even pay money for something like that... apparently:D
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