Microsoft has made huge nerfs to the Microsoft Rewards program in latest months, together with eradicating factors for Edge searches, slashing factors for sure duties on the Rewards homepage, a seven-second interval search cooldown, and reducing factors for varied punch playing cards and duties on Xbox. Nonetheless, a brand new change that restricts customers to simply three Microsoft Bing searches each quarter-hour seems to be the final straw for a lot of Microsoft Rewards followers.
The 15-minute cooldown first rolled out to Rewards customers in nations reminiscent of Brazil and Mexico final week, however it appears that evidently Microsoft has now applied the characteristic in much more areas over the previous couple of days, together with the US, UK, and a few nations in Europe. We will verify that the cooldown is in place for us within the UK.
US right here, quarter-hour cooldown hit me. I’m out
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After all, this hasn’t gone down properly with those that use this system. A fast peek on the Microsoft Rewards subreddit reveals quite a few posts from customers who’re upset over the change, with some saying they’re cashing out their factors and quitting Rewards completely.
Whereas searches will not be value it, you may nonetheless earn a superb quantity of factors from Xbox Recreation Go Quests, duties within the Xbox cellular app, and weekly streaks from the Rewards app on Xbox consoles, although there’s a rumor that this might be killed off quickly.
What do you make of the latest adjustments to Microsoft Rewards? Will you be sticking with this system? Tell us down within the feedback.