106 PCWorld SEPTEMBER 2020HERE’S HOW USE MICROSOFT REWARDS TO GET XBOX GAME PASS
If you’d like, you can also gamify the
process. Every day Microsoft offers you three
choices: a “daily set” of a quiz, a poll, and a fact.
Clicking each of them will generally earn you an
additional 50 points a day. Microsoft will also
add bonus points for three successive days that
you perform daily sets, such as 45 points per
three-day streak. If you miss a day, your daily-set
streak resets. But don’t feel too bad, as some of
the quizzes will automatically archive down
lower in the dashboard.
If you keep up with your
“daily sets,” the 1,500 points
you’ll receive plus the 5,100
points from searching gets you
close to our target of 7,000
points. Add that to the bonuses
should put you at, or very near,
that 7,000 figure. Victory! But why stop there?
If there’s one area Microsoft Rewards has
neglected, it’s earning points for playing PC
games—something we’ll talk about in the next
section. But you can also earn Rewards points for
buying them, using actual cash. In August 2020,
for example, Microsoft was offering 5,000 points
alone for spending $50 on game purchases. And
if you rent or bought any three movies in August,
you could earn another 2,500. It’s something to
keep in mind if you’re considering renting a
movie online.USING MICROSOFT
REWARDS ON XBOX
Accumulating Microsoft Rewards points onthe Xbox is all about playing games. Initially,
Microsoft Rewards was primarily a PC-only
undertaking. Now, there are arguably more
ways to accumulate Rewards points on
Microsoft’s console than anywhere else.
While there’s no Microsoft Rewards app
for the PC or Android, there is one for the
Xbox. Go to the Microsoft Store app to
download it. Once there, you’ll need to make
sure you’re logged in after you open it up.
Not surprisingly, Microsoft
makes playing games itself a
game. Every week, you’ll have
the opportunity to do the
Rewards Weekly Set, with three
tasks: you might simply have to
log in on three successive days,
or watch a trailer for an
upcoming game, or accumulate three Xbox
Achievements in any game. Keep doing this,
and you’ll earn points, plus big 1,000-point
and even 2,500-point bonuses once you hit
milestones like the ten-week mark. Note that
you can still earn Achievements from playing
PC games, but they have to be downloaded
via the Windows 10 Xbox app, and the
developer has to have Achievements
enabled.
But wait, there’s more!
Way down at the bottom of the Microsoft
Rewards app, there’s something called Other
Ways To Earn. While that section serves as a
summary of your PC searches on your PC and
mobile, it also leads to another section called