Topic: Official Push Square Xbox Thread

@AgentCooper maybe! Who knows!

Rewards-wise, there are 5 places to get rewards from (a couple are interchangeable but I do it like this for various reasons)

Rewards App on Xbox - just do the punch cards/click on icons - most of them don't require buying games that aren't on game pass.

Bing App on Xbox - Daily Sets and PC Searches (just click on each news icon in turn and it will say +3 in the top right, keep going until it stops saying it - you can check if you have all PC Searches in the Rewards App)

Edge App on Mobile - log in with MS account and search/save the MS Rewards dashboard as a bookmark. This has similar icons as Xbox Rewards app which you can click on for points. I also do the Mobile/Edge searches here (I search for juventus players and their names appear at the top - I just click through all the names and that gives me all the points available for Mobile/Edge searches)

All PC/mobile/Edge search rewards reset daily and you can get 162 points a day

Xbox App on Mobile - not sure if everyone has this, it only got added to my app recently about half a year after it started rolling out. Click on your profile (bottom right) then click rewards. There's a few things in here, I normally just play one level of Jewel because I don't have a PC set up. Just claiming daily log in rewards gets you like an accumulating log in streak which resets after a few days.

Finally the Game Pass App on either Xbox or mobile - there are monthly, weekly and daily tasks. Daily and weekly are normally very easy and involve booting up games (can be done on cloud most of the time). Monthly are normally a bit more involved and there are guides on Pure Xbox or just YouTube. I normally checkout the Rewards Hunter channel as it's quite good for this sort of thing.

Oh yeah, you also get points for buying stuff in the store, can't remember what the point to pound ratio is but it's not amazing. Nice little bonus if your buying something off there anyway but not worth buying something specifically for the points

Ultimately though, your mileage may vary. When I first got Xbox One, I saw it and ignored it because I didn't want playing games to become a chore. When the pandemic hit, I found I was just completing rewards so I started claiming the points for them. Then it became a challenge and I decided to do every reward and save up to buy an Xbox Series X. About 14 months after it released, stock was stable and I had about 200 pounds worth of points which I accumulated in two years. So I just bought one with the steep discount.

Since then, I've not really been that bothered. I normally do the stuff on Xbox but the mobile rewards stuff is tiring because the apps are slow. I've sorta started doing the mobile stuff again anyway. I've saved up about 75000 points since January which is like 65-70 pounds in gift cards or something

Definitely a LOT of options for earning reward points with many daily, weekly and monthly activities to build up your points relatively quickly if you are desperate and determined to maximise your earning potential.

Personally, I tend to do the daily Reward missions - with every 10th consecutive day giving me 150 reward points on top. Occasionally earning points through searches, gaming etc keeps my points building up. Only when I want/need to convert points - like to get Xbox credit to buy a game or add a month or 3 of GPU - do I ever bother to convert points - otherwise I just forget about the 'balance' and just let them accumulate - hence I have ~134k pts - enough for over £100 in credit.

Whilst you could 'grind' every opportunity to earn points every day and probably earn enough to buy a game on sale or a month+ GPU every month, I tend to use it more like a loose change jar, Daily dropping in whatever small change I have and then treating myself to something 'extra' if/when I can't justify spending money on it because I need to buy food, pay bills etc with my 'cash'.

well just bought my 1st xbox, since my red ring of death.

Series S are 190 on amazon, couldnt really say no.

@stvevan bet if a ps5 was available you’d be able too

@nomither6 well I wouldn’t personally be sure either way what @stveven would do in that scenario but I can tell you one thing for sure… he wouldn’t be getting a PS5 for £190 🤣

@nomither6 i have a ps5. i decided i was getting one on a Thursday afternoon, delivered next day. i had no hassle at the time

@colonelkilgore lol! that’s a good one , haha😂!

@stvevan oh , lucky you then ! the backwards compatibility Xbox has ***** on playstation and it ain’t even funny

@stvevan yeah I was tempted at that price tbh… I just couldn’t justify it with the backlog I have on PS3, PS4 and PS5. The 30 fps issue was also a consideration for me. Still, hope you enjoy!

@colonelkilgore its just going to be a secondary machine, for gp.

most that rely on 60fps, id get on ps...... Hopefully optimization gets better

@stvevan yeah it’d be the same for me… if I get one it’d be for the Xbox exclusives. I might hold out in case I can eventually find a good series x deal.

I got one for gamepass £0 for the console used my Microsoft reward points and £76 for 3 years worth of gamepass ultimate

its such a bargain

does MS do a better job than sony at telling subs when games will leave gamepass?

thinking about subbing myself.

@jdv95 I don’t sub to any service myself, so wouldn’t be able to confirm which service is better at providing the information about what and when will be leaving said service… but I do check out a site called N4G every now and then and I often see articles about what games will be leaving both Gamepass and PlayStation+ and when on there.

@jdv95 on the gamepass app on the xbox it has a section that shows everything leaving in the next 15 days

@jdv95 Gamepass has 2 fixed days where games leave. 15th and the last day of the month. 2 weeks before games leave it is visible which games are leaving.

tnx everyone!

@jdv95 hi mate. Long time no speak. I was regular here for like 7 years during the ps4 (hope you remember me bro).

Gamepass is great. If you pick it up via PC or on the console you can literally smash 18 months worth of gaming marathons and smile all the way. I've garnered almost 70k gamerscore (think 70 platinums) in a year and still have stuff on my play list.

The updates all year are well laid out. MS are masters of commercial IT so you know what is and isn't happening. The UI works great. As @trev666 and @Lavalera have informed you, the games that are leaving are labelled. You get 20% off each game during that period, in case you want to buy.

Also with Gamepass ultimate you have just under 400 games to snipe at. It's superb when a new game comes and it's on the service, such as high on life or scorn. It does however miss a lot of games and recently my own purchases have taken centre stage.

You also get MS rewards. Which is unbelievable if you are willing to give 10 minutes of your time most nights. Without going overboard I have scored 3 x £25 xbox vouchers, 2 x xbox £5 vouchers, 1 x £5 tesco voucher (£90 altogether) 2 x months of gp ultimate and given £12 to charity. Entered around 10 prize draws and still have points to use (about £10 worth). Its crazy in all honesty. As someone looking to save on my gaming handouts it's been a godsend.

Xbox does have some negatives. The games simply aren't as good as Sonys first party games. Nothing on the system is comparable to Ghost of Tsushima let alone HZD 2 or GOW2. The xbox one games were slightly nerfed compared to the ps4 and its shows when you backwards compatibly play the likes of Tekken 7 and watchdogs 2, they look a lot worse. And the controller although solid and usable, does struggle with button inputs on the likes of contra as an extreme example. Finally it doesn't have Dreams so I can't produce music anymore!

Otherwise the system itself (xbox series x) is quiet and a beast with loading similar to the ps5. Imo it looks better. Forza Horizon 4 and 5 are the best driving games in the world and Ori, Halo MCC and Immortality are must plays!

Gamepass is great. Depending on what happens in the next few months I can decide to stay subbed or back out. I have got my moneys worth many times over.

@themcnoisy het mate good to hear from you!
Yeah the games on gamepass are better then those on plus extra etc especially the day 1 games. I just found out wo long will be day 1. Crazy.

Tbh i caved because of starfield supposedly coming in the first half of this year. Also stressing over MS buying more studio's became tiring so why not just go with both consoles.that way there´s nothing to miss out on.

Plus with redfall and again starfield coming this year,it feels like the right time to Join up.

@jdv95 there is a lot of rubbish too lol. I'm not that interested in the openworld stuff Arkane put out. Deathloop was overrated imo. I don't enjoy playing any of their games. It's really strange actually, as I like mgs and splinter cell - but arkanes spin on stealth is maddening. The opening to deathloop - I didn't know what was going on and once I did, I didn't really care.

Much more interested in the next proper forza and as you say the likes of wo long and finally playing persona 3.

Happy hunting anyway.