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.

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.

  • JTskulk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    142·
    2 years ago

    Let’s make a replacement program for Free software. The more points you get, the more Free software you can install.

  • Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.worldEnglish
    114·
    2 years ago

    Meh. This seems relatively minor, and geared towards people purposely gaming it. Which, yeah, I’ve done at one time or another. Lately I’ve just been getting the points from searching. It might take a couple extra days to get enough for each $5 gift card. Oh well.

  • kbtaco@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    I’m most disappointed with the cooldown between searches. The lowering of points was expected as they were cutting back everywhere else.

  • Pxtl@lemmy.caEnglish
    41·
    2 years ago

    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.