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I've been doing microsoft rewards for around 2 years and I've gotten consistent points, but since last month Microsoft has been slowly degrading how many points I can get.
For example, they've been only giving 1 POINT now for each task I do instead of 10 points, basically no monthly punch cards, and they just deleted my edge search points.
Is this on purpose to limit how many points older accounts with more points can get?
(I dont want a "Thank you for your opinion, we are going to look into this issue" robot response please)
A program that grants points for using Bing search, which users can redeem for gift cards, sweepstakes entries, or charitable donations.
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i'm not getting points for searches at all, not on desktop, not on mobile. kind of stupid to take away the only incentive to use this buggy search engine.
Microsoft wants you to pause 5or6 seconds between searches yet that doesnt work all the time. I was using points for gamepass ultimate with tax is $18.01 a month which is ridiculous for the **** games you get. Now you cant just get xbox gold for a year just to play online games. Im middle aged dont have time get achievements every other day to get the 1000 point award a month. If they would change it to 15 a month not limiting 1 a day that may be do able 10 a month would be easier or come up with another way to earn such as doing reviews of merchandise or playing a amount a of time on specific games like 15 minutes a day or 2 or 3 hours a month were i can do weekends. Missing the edge search and still not getting allot of mobile searches or pc searches also, it just doesnt pick up when i do it.
Yeah I've basically stopped doing the searches. the 15 minute cooldown has ruined that. Also my mobile searches don't even register anyway. This was such a great system they had that felt rewarding, but not anymore. I hope they reconsider what they've done, or at least find some kind of middle ground. I've never seen anything nerfed this much this quickly.
Indeed they've been throttling my points, including pc search and phone search. I don't expect it to get any better. There is nothing in their terms saying they can or will do this, so it's unethical IMHO.
Been a long time user of rewards, but now that they've changed the system, I have literally no incentive to use bing.
Search and Earn limited to 3 searches in 15 minutes, so even with normal use I'm struggling to hit the daily searches etc, and all the Xbox specific quests etc are rubbish now too.
Just not worth the hassle.