Over the past few years, we've been highlighting the "Monthly Bonus Round" punch cards from Microsoft Rewards on a monthly basis, but as you may have noticed, there hasn't been one at all in September 2023 so far.
This has been a big topic in the Microsoft Rewards community over the past few days, and we haven't yet seen any kind of official reply from the Xbox team despite quite a few people asking for clarification.
Microsoft recently nerfed the Monthly Bonus Round punch cards from 2000 points per-month to 1000 points, but we didn't expect to see them disappear altogether. One theory that some fans are coming up with is that everything Microsoft Rewards related might be moving to the new "Rewards" tab that's been implemented in the new September 2023 Xbox update - rather than the old, sluggish app that we've been using until now.
We'll have to wait and see what happens with this, but don't forget there are still plenty of ways to earn thousands of Microsoft Rewards points throughout September 2023, and we've detailed all of those in our guide here at Pure Xbox:
What do you think happened here? Let us know down in the comments section below.
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The changes MS have made to the Rewards has been pretty awful in my opinion, at this point they may as well drop it as they're clearly trying to move away from it.
Just another step in reducing what we can earn. 😕
If I could actually access the rewards app in my console I'd be upset but it hasn't worked for months now, cost me an 86 week streak.
I noticed this and was wondering when it may change. Probably won't, guess we had a good run. Lol
Wow this sucks ..increasing prices removing rewards...suppose it was only a matter of time
@Decoy_Snake contact here: https://rewards.bing.com/support
I've done this a couple of times and got my rewards back, so worth a shot!
At least MS is doing a slow rollout of price increases - unlike Sony who just randomly slapped on a 30% hike under the worst slate of games in gaming history.
I remember when I first bought my Switch in 2019 they gave a out a free year of their online service. AN ENTIRE YEAR.
Give away the razor to sell the blades.
@Cashews Depends what territory you were in. It was the USA that was a brutal 33%, but many other territories were lower. e.g. 20% in the UK, which is basically what the Game Pass Ultimate Price hike was (18%)
But worst slate of games in gaming history??? Sure it was bad for recent PS+ but not even close to some of the dregs we've seen elsewhere.
@themightyant to be honest I've been out of the console game until recently. I am sure 2020-2022 was bad IF, and only if, you didn't own a Switch. Switch owners saw maybe the greatest three year run ever.
I'm just going off Sony's last showcase and what they have releasing after Spidey drops. There really isn't much to be excited over after October. relatively speaking.
and yes I was being melodramatic
@Cashews That's true, but they also have a lot of studios who haven't announced their games. Somewhere between Microsoft (announcing games far too early) and Sony (not announcing much at all) would be a happy medium I think.
That's also slight hyperbole
@Blofse I'll check it out
It's definitely harder to earn points now and the weekly 100 point gift has also gone.
I used to earn enough points each month to pay for gamepass and it required very little effort.
I'm spending a lot more time and I'm still 3 or 4 thousand points short each month.
I suppose the points are free but question whether it's really worth the effort anymore.
I really hope it does move to the dashboard only as I'm sick of trying to open the app and getting that update your location error message, hopefully this will be the end of it!
They're either moving it to the new tab along with the Weekly 100 Gift (wishful thinking) or purposefully ignoring the fact they removed them until a point where they have to bring it up.
Just a couple weeks ago I was complimenting this program. Since, it's been all downhill. It's like these companies are run by idiots. They see praise then think... 'Oh people like this? Cool. How can we f*** it up?'
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