Why is Microsoft Rewards limiting how much I can earn?

If they need to reduce points that’s ok by me. Put it out there, announce the change and let me choose how to continue.

I’m confused by the sabotage that’s going on with the system. Stopping point accumulation but presenting it as nothing has changed.

Some refer to that these days as “gaslighting”.

Sounds like a class action suit.

Have you possibly abused, or seemed to have abused their system? I know on other browsers/search engine that pay out crypto, that they block or throttle people who are not using the rewards system in good faith, or SEEM to use it in good faith (for example: search "aaaaa" then "aaaaaaa" 10 seconds later is not using the system in good faith.

The reason I suggeest that is because I earn about $1-2 per week, not even using the rewards to the fullest potential (I don't max it out daily. At my average rate I can redeem for a $10 CAD gas gift card every 60-65 days, or $60 CAD per year. 1000 days sounds odd, or you aren't using the parts that earn more points like quizzes, searches or news. Heck, even ONLY reading 10 news articles per day on their app will earn me $10 per 328 days. That's just one part of their system, and wouldn't you have access to that too?

I get it, their reward payout isn't as good as it used to be, but $60 is more than I receive using any other browser. If you know one that pays more, please let me know! I'll use that too haha.

Absolutely. It's unsustainable to give out as much money if they never decreased the points amount. $60 CAD/year for me to use their product RIGHT NOW isn't the worst deal. If all 1.2 billion users earned the same to the fullest extent and earned the same $ as me, then it'd cost them 1/3 of the entire companies total yearly revenue, and about 70-80% of their profit. I don't know any other engines or browsers that give out as much money. I've been using Brave+presearch for 2 years or so and the total value of the crypto I've earned is equal to about $60 CAD too.

It's just not sustainable to give hundreds of dollars per customer out per year. We start getting into the trillions of dollars over a decade of use if they kept the point earnings up to how much they used to give out. The early users were simply quite handsomely paid, and so for people like me who just started using it....their current payout seems pretty fair, and I'm surprised by how much they used to give to users - WAY above market rate at that.

You don't actually need to complete the puzzle to get the point, you can right click+open in new tab and it'll give you the point. Still, a fraction of a cent, but they needed to decrease the points, no doubt. I did some quick calculations and if every user of bing was a rewards member, using it to the fullest, they would have given out up to about $1.2-2.4 trillion over the length of their program That's 7-15 years of their total REVENUE. they needed to drop the point amount and I'm sure will continue to do so, or else it would get way too expensive to be worth it as a business move. They are paying you for R&D+ acquisition of you as a customer, reducing revenues and advertisement given to GOOG
I know it sucks though. I really wish I knew of the program back in the day, I would have given bing+edge more use.

They've had this program for 10 years? Wow, I wish I knew about it earlier. I always avoided edge+bing... The point of the rewards program is for microsoft to earn customers by getting them hooked on using their browser+search engine. Also helps them with development and advancement of their AI, no doubt. I realize it sucks they have reduced the amount of points being given out, but it's to be expected over time as they acquire more customers by this massive push, at a large cost to microsoft. If there are even about 2 million people earning as much as you have, that would equal $1 billion over whatever time period, which get's expensive...because there are now 1.2 billion people who use bing, and 900 million searches are made per day. That's about $2 million given out per day, or $722 million per year given out just for searches if those people were to use the rewards!

You have to admit they needed to decrease the points over time...it's a pretty expensive acquisition and maintaining of customers who use it. Some people have earned 1-2 million points which is equivalent to what..$1000-2000? If all bing users made the same over their lifetime use so far...we are talking about up to over $2.4 TRILLION given out. I think that's 15 years worth of microsoft's total revenue. Extreme examples, I know, but it helps to visualize how out of control it could get if they kept the reward amounts