Gamepass quests Microsoft Redeem points

marcbrophy · 31-10-2020 5:21pm

Is anyone else having issues with the Watch Dogs Legion punch card not activating?

Treppen · 01-11-2020 11:02am

marcbrophy wrote: »

Is anyone else having issues with the Watch Dogs Legion punch card not activating?

Seems to be a few reports of difficulties on r/microsoftrewards . Contact support, they're usually good. I find if I wait till after 7pm to punch things in there's no issues!

Treppen · 01-11-2020 11:03am

What's everyone's points so far?

I'm 31,,000

Josey Wales · 01-11-2020 3:33pm

Treppen wrote: »

What's everyone's points so far?

I'm 31,,000

A whopping 96.

Treppen · 01-11-2020 5:34pm

Josey Wales wrote: »

A whopping 96.

Like 96000?

Derek.. · 01-11-2020 5:48pm

How are the rewards points for redeeming a code versus buying games and stuff with cash?

Treppen · 01-11-2020 7:46pm

Derek.. wrote: »

How are the rewards points for redeeming a code versus buying games and stuff with cash?

Depends really, if you go to the rewards page you'll see what you can get for your points.

I think it's €25 for 28,000 points which is about 3 months solid work doing quests + daily achievement etc. If you buy it stuff online from Microsoft (with your Xbox / outlook account) you get 20 points for every €1 spent.
BTW their movie rentals are fairly good with new releases so if you're going to the cinema or regularly rent stuff then it's worthwhile switching to Xbox if you're collecting points. 2,500 for 3 movies .

TBH yould want to be doing it for fun and getting to try out new games on gamepass.
Other countries you can do the dog on points and really cash in but those quests aren't available to Ireland.

Not too sure if I'll use it towards a new Xbox or gamepass. The way things are going you'll be able to play Microsoft games with just a dongle or on any tablet as they have to compete with Stadia and get people subscribed to gamepass like the Netflix model. I'm not pushed with 4k ultra HD 120 whatchamacallit . If I can keep the old one X on the road then I'll stay with that... Although if a GameStop trade-in came along I'd be tempted.

Josey Wales · 01-11-2020 8:31pm

Treppen wrote: »

Like 96000?

No, just 96. Although up to 121 now.

marcbrophy · 01-11-2020 9:43pm

I've logged a ticket with support, so hopefully i can get those 250 point for Legion

Right now I've 14,147 points.

Treppen, you seem to have experience with the movies punch card. You need 3 movies to complete it, but each movie says it must be more than €4 to qualify! Do the €3.99 rentals count towards a movie?

Treppen · 01-11-2020 10:07pm

marcbrophy wrote: »

I've logged a ticket with support, so hopefully i can get those 250 point for Legion

Right now I've 14,147 points.

Treppen, you seem to have experience with the movies punch card. You need 3 movies to complete it, but each movie says it must be more than €4 to qualify! Do the €3.99 rentals count towards a movie?

Ha no they'll screw you there. There's usually hd version for over €4 . I only did the punch card for 2,500 once when there was nuthin left to watch on Netflix during lockdown 1.

But do yer maths and shop around you might easily get the same movies by subscribing/renting from Google, Amazon Prime or Now TV.

theteal · 02-11-2020 1:16pm

Treppen wrote: »

What's everyone's points so far?

I'm 31,,000

I don't want to say, I feel a bit guilty

theteal · 03-11-2020 8:20pm

The quests are being a bit buggy today. The "play 8 game pass games" one is not working for me, hasn't recognised any more than 4 of the dozen I've loaded

marcbrophy · 03-11-2020 9:59pm

theteal wrote: »

The quests are being a bit buggy today. The "play 8 game pass games" one is not working for me, hasn't recognised any more than 4 of the dozen I've loaded

On my side, I can't see any for play 8 games!
There's one for complete 8 weekly quests alright

JohnB123456 · 10-11-2020 10:48pm

Is there any way to make the search on bing weekly rewards set work?
None of the searches on mobile are adding up and I'm logged in

marcbrophy · 10-11-2020 10:58pm

JohnB123456 wrote: »

Is there any way to make the search on bing weekly rewards set work?
None of the searches on mobile are adding up and I'm logged in

I use a "user agent switcher" add-on for Firefox on desktop, emulate an android on chrome, go to bing.com and do a bunch of nonsense searches. A to Z, 0 to 9 etc.

50 searches take a few minutes maximum then

theteal · 10-11-2020 11:25pm

marcbrophy wrote: »

I use a "user agent switcher" add-on for Firefox on desktop, emulate an android on chrome, go to bing.com and do a bunch of nonsense searches. A to Z, 0 to 9 etc.

50 searches take a few minutes maximum then

I search "movies 2020" then when you click on the first result the rest of the results are rearranged horizontally across the screen, zoom out and middle click on each (which will open a new search result tab in the background) and you'll blitz through 50 in seconds. Same search on mobile and you can click on pretty much the same part of the screen which will load each one as a search result.

Treppen · 12-11-2020 12:42pm

Gears ultimate is on gamepass now. There's a quest for 1 achievement in the rewards app for 250 points. Easy to miss it.

theteal · 12-11-2020 6:05pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

Treppen wrote: »

Gears ultimate is on gamepass now. There's a quest for 1 achievement in the rewards app for 250 points. Easy to miss it.

I got 75 points for a game pass quest too. I only didbjalf the tutorial and got 3 achievements

marcbrophy · 15-11-2020 12:08am

Did anyone get the points from the MS store for buying an Xbox Series X|S yet?

dreamwalker1 · 16-11-2020 12:30pm

I don't think Microsoft are giving the reward points for buying the xbox. They did in the past but I got my series x 6 days ago and no reward points have been awarded

theteal · 16-11-2020 1:03pm

dreamwalker1 wrote: »

I don't think Microsoft are giving the reward points for buying the xbox. They did in the past but I got my series x 6 days ago and no reward points have been awarded

I've seen mention by others of getting 1 point per €1 spent.

I note on the bottom of my dashboard it states it should be 20:1 for purchases, I'm yet to test that though.

dreamwalker1 · 16-11-2020 1:11pm

Any software purchase from microsoft gives the 20:1 reward points providing of course you are level 2. For hardware I don't know if the reward points are being given especially for the purchase of the xbox itself. Just got to wait and see I guess.

Fingleberries · 16-11-2020 4:54pm

dreamwalker1 wrote: »

Any software purchase from microsoft gives the 20:1 reward points providing of course you are level 2. For hardware I don't know if the reward points are being given especially for the purchase of the xbox itself. Just got to wait and see I guess.

Buying hardware has tended to be 1:1 for me, but the console pre-order doesn't seem to have registered (or I'm not getting points for it)

marcbrophy · 16-11-2020 4:55pm

How can you see where your points have come from?

Fingleberries · 16-11-2020 5:17pm

marcbrophy wrote: »

How can you see where your points have come from?

If you go to https://account.microsoft.com/rewards, at the top you see points earned and you can click on 'Points Breakdown >' you can usually see this month and last month in that page.

marcbrophy · 16-11-2020 5:47pm

Fingleberries wrote: »

If you go to https://account.microsoft.com/rewards, at the top you see points earned and you can click on 'Points Breakdown >' you can usually see this month and last month in that page.

Cool thanks!
Looks like I got 500 points for MS store purchases.
250 on 10th Nov.
250 on 15th Nov.

So much for the 10,000 I though I was due

Treppen · 16-11-2020 7:12pm

marcbrophy wrote: »

Cool thanks!
Looks like I got 500 points for MS store purchases.
250 on 10th Nov.
250 on 15th Nov.

So much for the 10,000 I though I was due

Shur get on to em and create a ruckus

recyclops · 18-11-2020 10:32am

So on my work computer I had to sign into an MS on my work account, now my dashboard is all different on the website with way more ways to earn points. Is this frowned upon??

theteal · 18-11-2020 12:00pm

recyclops wrote: »

So on my work computer I had to sign into an MS on my work account, now my dashboard is all different on the website with way more ways to earn points. Is this frowned upon??

Does it think your location is different?

recyclops · 18-11-2020 12:55pm

nope as the redeem points are still in euros? I have my normal ms account signed in and my work one signed in and just today the dashboard on rewards site was chockablock with quizzes etc and also i can redeem against argos, tesco too.

my wifes family account is also the same maybe they just updated the irish site

theteal · 18-11-2020 3:18pm

Maybe @Treppen's campaign has worked!

Anyone else Ireland based able to verify?

marcbrophy · 18-11-2020 6:56pm

Seems the same as always to me!

Treppen · 19-11-2020 9:19am

recyclops wrote: »

nope as the redeem points are still in euros? I have my normal ms account signed in and my work one signed in and just today the dashboard on rewards site was chockablock with quizzes etc and also i can redeem against argos, tesco too.

my wifes family account is also the same maybe they just updated the irish site

Stay away from that. If you start farming in UK or wherever then switch back to Ireland you might get banned.

Although it could be something to do with your work outlook.
I had something funny like my Xbox outlook set to .com but region was UK and needed it to be in Euro! So had to contact them to straighten it out, that was years ago though.

But I still have Xbox Microsoft store with my Xbox outlook on my work laptop. At the start it tried to kick me into the store automatically with my work outlook.

Maybe flag it with Xbox anyway!

Treppen · 19-11-2020 10:15am

theteal wrote: »

Maybe @Treppen's campaign has worked!

Anyone else Ireland based able to verify?

Funny you should say that... I spotted holiday punch card there for a few hours then it disappeared. I tried punching it but got error each time.

Nyum Nyum · 19-11-2020 11:35am

I contacted Microsoft about the rewards points too (bought Series X, Shock Blue controller and Play & Charge kit) but eventually only got 480 points from them

dreamwalker1 · 19-11-2020 1:34pm

Got 423 microsoft reward points for buying my series x and have messaged them to say that's only 1/20 of what I should be getting!!!! Waiting to see if they will update me and will post. The Irish reward points are so crap compared to america and the uk though.

dreamwalker1 · 21-11-2020 8:28am

Just heard back from microsoft and they have confirmed that it's only 1 point for the console itself. On top of that they gave me 423 points which was the price of the series x before vat was added. Bit stingy I thought but still more than I would get off Sony!

theteal · 21-11-2020 12:12pm

I picked up Cold War from CDKeys yesterday for £42. With a punch card and another achievement it got me 6300 (incl daily 50) points too. It's not giving me the option to buy cross gen for £5 though but I'm not overly impressed so far so that may not be a factor for my future xbox upgrade.

Treppen · 22-11-2020 10:54am

Dunno if it was posted back here, but for the daily 50 AMEM Rare Replay collection gives you an achievement for just starting every game.

theteal · 27-11-2020 11:33am

So I think I'm tracking a bit ahead of my planned target of 90,000 by April - I got quite a bump in the last week with the COD purchase (6000) and a couple of streak/quests coming in for 1000 each. The end goal remains that same i.e. to get a bunch of £25 MS vouchers towards a Series X - I initially hoped for 3 of them but I think 4 may even be doable at current rate (as for whether MS will let me use them for console purchase is another thing but we'll see).

marcbrophy · 01-12-2020 11:10pm

There's a "Holiday" punch card for 500 points available now.
Have to get 2 achievements in the EA catalogue to unlock.
Anyone know any handy achievements in EA games?

Treppen · 02-12-2020 12:03am

marcbrophy wrote: »

There's a "Holiday" punch card for 500 points available now.
Have to get 2 achievements in the EA catalogue to unlock.
Anyone know any handy achievements in EA games?

Similar question over on Reddit here https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftRewards/comments/jszgia/two_easy_achievements_for_ea_play_game/

Tl;Dr
Dante's Inferno , watch initial cutscene then play for 10 seconds will give you 2 quickies

Sea of solitude also

marcbrophy · 02-12-2020 12:16am

Dante will do nicely, thanks Treppen

Treppen · 02-12-2020 2:05am

marcbrophy wrote: »

Dante will do nicely, thanks Treppen

Just to add, ain't nothing registering for a lot of people for different tasks. Hold off a while.

theteal · 02-12-2020 11:40am

Treppen wrote: »

Just to add, ain't nothing registering for a lot of people for different tasks. Hold off a while.

Yeah been on a mission to force myself to complete Gears 5 of late (I used to love those games but this is just effort) and I got a few achievements last night that I notice didn't count towards any of the quests

Treppen · 02-12-2020 1:04pm

Think they're popping now.

theteal · 03-12-2020 1:01am

Treppen wrote: »

Similar question over on Reddit here https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftRewards/comments/jszgia/two_easy_achievements_for_ea_play_game/

Tl;Dr
Dante's Inferno , watch initial cutscene then play for 10 seconds will give you 2 quickies

Sea of solitude also

Just got the Dante achievements, didnt count towards the punch card though

Treppen · 03-12-2020 6:59am

theteal wrote: »

Just got the Dante achievements, didnt count towards the punch card though

I haven't tried it myself yet, just going on Reddit info. Did you punch in the thing after?
There's a few more on Reddit link.
Just checked there and EA not punching in for many people.

BTW don't forget to install games through the app for the other quest.

Treppen · 03-12-2020 7:11am

Hotshot racing can be played on cloud .
For easy achievements play about 3 races

theteal · 03-12-2020 9:37am

Treppen wrote: »

I haven't tried it myself yet, just going on Reddit info. Did you punch in the thing after?
There's a few more on Reddit link.
Just checked there and EA not punching in for many people.

BTW don't forget to install games through the app for the other quest.

Yup, "punched in" after and it just brings me to the list of EA Play games available to install - which includes Dante. I'm expecting it's just a delay but, will check later

Gamepass quests Microsoft Redeem points

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