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 don't know if I'm missing out on something because I'm level 2 and my daily total points has decreased from 210 to 195 due to the activities.
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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They decrease the points, also from the extra tasks they change from 5/10 to 2 or 3. Its a very bad change.
Also, they deduce from 250 to 150 the bonus if you play 5 days in a week to your xbox
To summarise, it's because they've done the following:
Personally they've been really sly with this; it doesn't take a lot of intelligence to know that the only reason people use Bing is for Microsoft Rewards
I've been using Bing myself for 4 years for this exact reason, but if it gets any worse it just seems pointless. I remember when I could get £5 a month from this scheme.
I thought it's a bug like how I am supposed to see 2 points instead of 5 points.
They actually have lowered it from 5 to 2. I am a Bing user myself having ditched the competition. Now it seems Bing has become greedy as long as it has got a proper fan base.
To summarise, it's because they've done the following:
- Limited search points to just 9 per 15 minutes so you can't do all your searches at once
- Closed the Xbox rewards app, which further means you can't auto redeem £5 gift cards for 5435 instead of the usual 5935
- Reduced daily tasks from 10 to 5
- Reduced bonus tasks from 10 to 2
- Made it so you have to actually go out of your way to do the search quests, which doesn't even work most of the time
- Removed the bonus for using Microsoft Edge
Personally they've been really sly with this; it doesn't take a lot of intelligence to know that the only reason people use Bing is for Microsoft Rewards
I've been using Bing myself for 4 years for this exact reason, but if it gets any worse it just seems pointless. I remember when I could get £5 a month from this scheme.