Why is Microsoft Rewards limiting how much I can earn?

Anonymous
2023-11-30T13:29:43+00:00

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)

Bing | Microsoft Rewards
Bing | Microsoft Rewards

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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  1. Anonymous
    2024-01-15T20:58:33+00:00

    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.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-01-17T16:06:21+00:00

    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.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-01-19T02:58:10+00:00

    They have taken the fun out of it. I’ve always used my points to buy Xbox games. I have about 50,000 points and will use them on Amazon gift cards. Also, not renewing my Ultimate subscription. Going to return my 3rd Xbox purchase too! I’m done!!

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-01-19T11:06:11+00:00

    299th same question and still nothing much has changed. The delay between searches (the cooldown) is also extremely disappointing and takes away all the fun of racking-up points.

    In my opinion they will have to start rewarding the users of Microsoft Rewards more (like before) because after reading most of the comments, I think a majority of the users are not happy and they are thinking of quitting the program because it is not so rewarding anymore and requires time and effort. This will lead to a decrease in the number of people using Edge because everyone already knows that Google Chrome is so much faster and easier to use.

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