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.

  • Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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    1 year ago

    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

    • @RagingInside
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      1021 year ago

      This is why we can’t have nice things.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        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”.

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          There’s a continuum between this kind of thing and, say, ransomware attacks. I’m not sure where the line should be drawn.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          Idk man I get free game pass every month and people much more patient than me have been able to get entire free consoles. I’d call that pretty nice

    • @just_another_person
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      1 year ago

      You sound like part of the reason they gutted the thing, then.

      • @grayman
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        -21 year ago

        They’re giving out made up points and then letting you trade them for copies of digital files. They’re not really losing much.

      • Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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        -91 year ago

        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.

        • Wrench Wizard
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          71 year ago

          But they did do something eventually lol

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      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.

    • Pxtl
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      11 year ago

      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?

      • Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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        -21 year ago

        If you actually started selling these, they would probably shut that down pretty quickly and maybe even sue you

        • Pxtl
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          41 year ago

          Obviously. Don’t get caught.