It's not unfair to say that Microsoft Rewards has suffered for Xbox users over the past year, but clearly the company is still committed to the program, with multiple new features rolling out for Xbox fans and beyond over the past few days.
These new features aren't specific to Xbox, but they'll still come in handy. The most notable one is the ability to protect your daily streak on the Microsoft Rewards browser version/app - perfect for things like vacations, for example.
There's also the ability to "restore" your streak if you've accidentally missed a day:
"Streak Restore: eligible users who accidentally miss a day can restore their streak once every 60 days. If you have more than a 100-day streak, you can restore it once a month."
"Streak Protection: Just toggle it on in advance to protect your streak so you don't lose it! You receive up to 14 days per calendar year of streak protection. If you complete your streak while streak protection is turned on, it will not count against your quota of days."
Elsewhere, you can also currently earn a free Super Duolingo trial by searching on Microsoft Edge for three days in a row (redeemable via the MS Rewards website), and there's now the ability to donate your points to over 200 markets.
As of this week, Microsoft Rewards is now available in over 230 countries and regions (it's just rolled out in Morocco), so here's hoping the Xbox side gets more improvements soon - we just want the "Play with Friends" quest back!
Are you still using Microsoft Rewards on Xbox? Tell us down in the comments section below.
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I've had this for a couple of weeks now.
Isn't the Super Duolingo trial already free? I've literally just finished my trial
What I would really like is for it to actually acknowledged my daily plays on my Xbox. I figured I would try and actually put the effort in for the free month of GPU so have been turning my Xbox on and playing at least 10 mins every day for that 275 extra points a week. It registered Monday, didn’t register Tuesday or Wednesday and then when I logged in Thursday it told me to try again next week. This is the second week in a row it’s not worked for me and a quick google suggests I am not the only one with these issues.
Nice that is indeed a useful feature. I noticed this a little while ago but wasn't sure how it worked.
@GeeEssEff go into the rewards tab and check the time on the points. Mine says 15 minutes.
@GeeEssEff You have to play on the console for 15 minutes. It says so on the goal "tile." I have been getting the points consistently.
@theduckofdeath @Blaa thanks both. That will be why then. I was wondering if it’s something like this but couldn’t see anything in the rewards tab and google wasn’t helpful except for finding other people having the same problem. Maybe I was looking in the wrong place.
@GeeEssEff There's a subtle change when you have played. One of the 5 tiles goes from empty when you haven't played, to translucent when you have played a bit, to fully opaque when you have played 15 mins. Confused me for a few days too.
@GeeEssEff Often will complete a level of Jewel or other activities and it WILL NOT update or allow me to redeem those until next day. The lag delay is maddening. Often wonder if this is on purpose or by design.
I don’t have it ‘turned on’. My own fault if happen to skip a day.
@themightyant Yeh I had noticed the boxes filling in…that’s why I was getting frustrated because it worked on the Monday (must have played over 15 mins) and then didn’t for the Tuesday or Wednesday. I know for next week now. Bring on that free month of GPU in 2025
The streak protection I had awhile ago and had it turned on just incase. Didn't miss a day and then it said my streak protection had ended and I'd have to wait til January to use it again. It seems more like a cover for the amount of times the rewards don't work.
@GuyinPA75 Jewel 2 has been much better about registering play lately. The goal tile now states, explicitly, "Complete one level of Jewel on the Xbox app for mobile." Yes, there were times prior when it would take 2-4 levels for my play to register.
@GeeEssEff
To be fair it wasn't always specific like that. I feel like only 2 weeks ago it started to specifically say to play 15 minutes.
Since they updated their reward servicd with the QR it require me to have a mobile which i don't so i can't receive code or exchange my rewards i got 25k sleeping on my account! Huge bummer i refuse to own a smart phone and now i get screwed they don't offer residential robotic voice message that was giving you a code.
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