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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
This is why we can't have nice things.
I mean in their defense, fuck Microsoft with a rusty nail, and this system was basically designed for exploitation.
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”.
There's a continuum between this kind of thing and, say, ransomware attacks. I'm not sure where the line should be drawn.
Microsoft Rewards isn't a "nice thing".
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
You sound like part of the reason they gutted the thing, then.
They're giving out made up points and then letting you trade them for copies of digital files. They're not really losing much.
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.
But they did do something eventually lol
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.
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?
If you actually started selling these, they would probably shut that down pretty quickly and maybe even sue you
Obviously. Don't get caught.