Microsoft guts Microsoft Rewards points, and its fans are outraged::Microsoft appears to be nickel-and-diming users and fans of its Microsoft Rewards program, which gives “frequent-flyer” points that can be traded in for gift cards.
This was the only reason to use Bing for a long time
It still is, but it was too.
Bing, uh, has it’s uses. IYKYK.
Let’s make a replacement program for Free software. The more points you get, the more Free software you can install.
That makes the software not free though 😥
The points are measured in gigabytes of storage on your hard drive
I remember using this (cheating a little bit with VPNs and proxies so I could claim the rewards like 20 times every day, because they are separate in every country) to get some Xbox giftcards
I also had ~15 Microsoft accounts and I put them all in a Microsoft family so I could transfer points from one account to another, it was really fun lol
This is why we can’t have nice things.
I mean in their defense, fuck Microsoft with a rusty nail, and this system was basically designed for exploitation.
No, this is why systems that aren’t rigorously designed to preclude exploitation like this simply shouldn’t be released. If flaws like this exist in the system, they will be exploited. It’s not on the users if they exploited a flaw, even if you say “please don’t exploit the flaw”.
There’s a continuum between this kind of thing and, say, ransomware attacks. I’m not sure where the line should be drawn.
You should like part of the reason they gutted the thing, then.
I stopped doing this a few years ago but the system was flawed from the ground up. The fact that they did nothing to this kind of abuse it mind-boggling. No one actually used this the way it was intended to be used.
People like you are why normies can’t buy pax tickets. This isn’t simmering to be proud of, you should be ashamed of abusing a system.
For ones where they give you a code for a non-MS service (eg LoL or Overwatch tokens) couldn’t you bot-farm this and then literally just sell the redemption code?
Bummer, I was going to check this out too
I mean I’ve bought 2 Overwatch passes using those points. I couldn’t justify paying cash for skins to myself, but MS rewards points I could rationalize. But I basically fire up Edge/Bing to collect the points and then go back to Firefox & DDG. It was obviously not sustainable for them.
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