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

The whole rewards program is an embarrassment.

The Xbox app on PC is dead, on Xbox itself it has zero content. Then the bing app on Xbox died, now just launching the browser.

The rewards panel (under Xbox profile) is also a mess. The total often doesn't add up to the items, sometimes over, often under. No longer lodge support tickets as there is ZERO customer service.

AWS use the rewards program as a serious joke against Microsoft - and it works, as many IT teams know first hand what a joke this is. It's basically negative PR.

Yeah for the last couple weeks it looks like the Bing Points are permanently nerfed for me sadly. I think they did this (IMO) to get more people to actually pay for Game Pass as opposed to getting it for free. I've also used points to buy games & dlc as well. Bing will never be as popular as Google, now with the points being nerfed I don't usually use Bing at all besides getting what points I can get each day. To be technical I think I can still earn the same amount of points but there are time restrictions on both the PC and Phone Bing searches. I can only do so many searches in a given amount of time. Its silly, I used to be able to do all of my day's PC searches & phone searches without these silly restrictions within 15 minutes or so.

...will never be as popular as Google, now with the points being nerfed I don't usually use Bing at all...

100% agree ... actually go further and expect it does worse, it drives people to hate against bing, remembering how they were left feeling "cheated" rather than "rewarded".

The whole scheme is buggy, and "if" you report faults you get accused of cheating and threatened with an account lock - even when their own stats/records shown the obvious error ... it is so negative "rewards".

Take the calendar 1000 points - get the daily, have 352 days straight showing, but yet report the calendar only showing '3' pieces, somehow its my fault. Same with 'play console' reward, MS stats provide proof but again denial by MS and it's my fault.

Every sysadmin at work now HATE M$ and back any other provider in open preference. This is just so wrong, but on it goes, MS is so warped

You won't hear this from anyone from Microsoft but in part so they can get more people to sign up for Game Pass and other services apart from earning credit to get said services for free (or at least not at the rate you used to be able to).