US/UK: Introducing the Xbox LIVE Rewards program Posted by XanTium | December 1 11:11 EST | News Category: Xbox360

From majornelson.com: [QUOTE] It’s a brand new way for Xbox LIVE members [available in the US and UK only] to earn Microsoft points for doing things they already do on Xbox LIVE. Sign up and start earning Microsoft Points by watching movies and sports, playing games and more. Plus, when you sign-up for Xbox LIVE Gold, or renew your membership you’ll earn even more. Sound good? We’re officially kicking off the program later today, but if you want to get in early hit the link below. [/QUOTE] Official Site: https://rewards.xbox.com

sweet, just signed up!

Has anyone received the confirmation email yet? I was gonna activate my 12 months of gold code and saw this news just now. Thanks for it bros.

Now Im gonna wait and see what the reward for 12 months of gold will be.

My first post in aaaages!

Cheers for the link. Signed up!

Good to see XS is still going strong!

you get 200 msp

I really hate how they do this for just certain regions, not everyone on xbox live is from those 2 areas. Also is xbox live a community? yes therefore it should be for everyone. I pay the same as the next person so why should I get less, I can understand when it comes to things like nextflix and other copyright material but promotions like this should include everyone.

Rant over

Will this work in Ireland???

I singed up for it and it seems to work but no confirmation e-mail yet.

As an ever-shafted Canadian, I agree. Not only do we pay more for an inferior service, we're also now left out of the "thank you's"

most definatly northern ireland, not too sure about southern ireland but i wount imagine its too strict

i'm signed up. got the onscreen notification, but no email.

i wonder if this program will actually supported this time around. (anyone remember the last microsoft rewards program, where they gave out download codes for contra), and then never did a round 2 with more stuff)

it takes 36 hours for a confirmation email btw.

Someone on another board was speculating that Canadians are left out due to all the wonky rules Canada has about contests and giveaways, like having to answer a test question to claim a prize, etc, so it's probably not just MS screwing you to screw you.

Anyone else still have their Diamond card that they took 3 years to get?

sweet finally getting something back for all the years of subscribing to xbl.. hope its actually good rewards and not like 10 points a year.

this is pretty good news, I'm sure this is another way for a big corporation to track us... in the same way retailers use rewards & discount cards to get special pricing.... but ONLY if you're a member.
this is just another way for M$ to track you, no big deal as they probably were tracking you anyway, this is just a way for them to do it legally. by agreeing to take the points, you're also agreeing for them to use whatever information they collect and sell it to 3rd parties.

done and done

see ya ; )

I just want to earn enough to DL hydro thunder baby

I'm STILL waiting for mines...

Whoaaaa ... anybody gets this as well when accessing rewards.xbox.com??

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, hosting@eprize.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) Server at rewards.xbox.com Port 80

Hilarious that MS is using Apache on the xbox.com website (is IIS not reliable enough?), and that they are dumb enough to not even configure it right!!!

That's right suckers. Keep pecking for bread crumbs. I am NOT a Sony fan or whatever, but come on. PSN is (still) free. This is nowhere good enough.

Yeah, just get pissed and all. I just can't understand the fact that people are paying for live. I've migrated all my new game purchases to the ps3 (except exclusives, but there aren't really that many). Yeah sure the xbox360 controllers are better and some features on live are probably better than on psn, but not pay vs. free better.

But you must be satisfied I guess. Market shows that you want to pay for xbox live.

So keep on rockin' the free world!

Siged up myself but am seriously wondering whats the catch?

Sounds to good to be true especially when M$ are behind things......

No its not. They are trying to get you to buy things from them. So when you do you get a really small reward. Giving people digital points to buy digital items? Thats not a loss to them at all. Think about all the gamer pics, themes, and gay avatar items they sell. Those cost nearly nothing to produce except probably paying someone to design it. So its almost 100% profit everytime you spend 160MS points for an avatar item. Also considering they get $50 for a sub to live instead of a store makes them more money too. When you buy a 12 months say from walmart for cheaper then $50, say $35-40, that makes you wonder, wow I wonder what walmart pays for these. So then MS probably makes another $20-25 per 12 month sale when you buy direct from them instead of a 3rd party seller.

i still have my first one one where they misspelled "Valid Thru" (Valid Trhu)

This just adds incentive to what we already do.. reup xbox live every year. The whole sony psn thing is moot since they do have a pay service which is total crap. $50 so you get discounts on stuff.. wow.. thanks. Cross game chat yet? Nope. ESPN? I could go on and on but live's larger online community and overall quality trumps free psn any day.

Also, amazon still has 1 yr cards for $42 so I'm cool paying that for a vastly superior product once a year.

heres the official way to earn points, this was emailed to me today from MS after signing up

Hmmm... Never got any confirmation e-mail even after I signed up and was told it would be sent.

If it says applies to country A and B only why are you asking if it will apply to country C???

I got my confirmation pretty quickly after I signed up.

not really worth it IMO, says they reward you for "doing things you already do" but dont mention that it doesnt count if youve already done them

IE, first marketplace purchase, if you made a marketplace purchase at any time before signing up for rewards, you can never get this reward, same goes for signing up for netflix, or XBL gold, or even renewing gold


much better way to get free points is bing rewards, ive gotten almost 2000 points from there since october

hey this looks actually pretty good.