Why has MicroSoft Rewards daily points gone down to 195 daily instead of 210?

In Italia c'è stato lo stesso calo, da 250 a 210, e da una settimana è sceso a 195 punti.

Inoltre, il puzzle è passato da 1000 a 500

Dropped further in Australia - we are the test cases for M$ Christmas spirit.

The puzzle never worked for me - shows, but resets without applying points (fraud\deception).

The achievement awards (daily, weekly and monthly) also gone.

In Italia c'è stato lo stesso calo, da 250 a 210, e da una settimana è sceso a 195 punti.

Inoltre, il puzzle è passato da 1000 a 500

I took to tracking the numbers daily, and within the last 3 weeks I observed the following in Australia:

• Microsoft has definitely reduced the maximum points available in Aus, as noted from 210 to 195 including the daily set; however
• The Search on Bing section rarely has anything in it anymore, apart from the 2 point quizzes which at its height were worth 10 points, where there used to be between 30 and 50 points available in there;
• Average daily total increase in points has reduced from around 250 per day to 210 per day - a reduction of just under 20% (my numbers only, ymmv).

I'd love to see some commentary around what's available in the US and whether they are being treated with the same malice. The daily search points alone across mobile and desktop used to be 250 in the US, which if still accurate is now considerably more than the total amount of daily points available in Australia across all tasks including news articles, quizzes and the daily sets. It would also be interesting to hear the actual reasoning behind the changes, short of the canned "from time to time we may add or remove (read, remove then remove more)..."

Even here in Italy the points have decreased a lot. I hope Microsoft will restore the situation otherwise it will no longer be worth it and they will lose a lot of customers.

Same here