Xbox Series S/X: Thread 04

[Neon Ignition]

Seeing reports that trying to redeem store codes or rewards points is resulting in account bans atm

[nonny]

Seeing reports that trying to redeem store codes or rewards points is resulting in account bans atm

Yeah on twitter they said they were looking into it.

[Neon Ignition]

Practically a blog on this at this rate.
Rewards

The longest streak I previously managed was around 78 days. Today was the day I finally hit Day 200 and whilst the Game Pass app is preparing to update with this months challenges to bank I've reached just over the 6 month mark from clearing out my points having hit a total of 142,902 points.

That puts me just under 4,000 points away from reaching £125 in MS Store Credit that can be claimed. It's a faster curve than I had initially projected too presuming MS don't nerf things any further. Maintaining momentum till late December when I hit the 1 year mark there's a chance I could theoretically get within £10-£15 of covering the entire cost of a Series S.

[nonny]

Nice one Neon... It's great hearing you master the art and getting a 100% free console by Xmas sounds like a decent prize. The rewards grind is a hard one to explain as there's so many mechanics and stackable challenges but I think once it clicks it's not that difficult or obtrusive.

I think my best achievement was getting up to £230 over several years prior to the Series X launch, then selling my One X and buying discounted gift cards to hit the magical £449 for launch.

[Neon Ignition]

I imagine there will be a point where you largely exhaust the games on GP where you can nab an achievement within a few minutes then suspend the game and go about your business. At the moment I'm picking at the achievements in 12 Minutes and know of at least a dozen other games I can nab the dailies from but simple or kids games seem the best bet when you don't grab one through the usual play. It's more ensuring you get one per day and some games are stingey.

[nonny]

Yeah I use a few guides for achievements but for the most part I try to get the 3 weekly ones naturally in my own time.

If I find I'm enjoying a particular simple game with easy achievements I will limit myself over a few days just to hit that one per day as well but it's rare I get hung up on doing that.

[Cassius_Smoke]

Forza Horizon 5 has reached 20m players. That's really impressive.

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/forza-horizon-5-has-reached-20-million-players/

[Neon Ignition]

Roberto Serrano' ����☮️���� | ������ on Twitter: "Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase on June 12/14 thread in progress..." / Twitter
If true, this will be the Xbox Showcase Line Up:

->Open Spoiler<-

Avowed - Releasing Second Half 2023

Deathloop - Releasing September 2022

Diablo IV - No date given

New Double Fine Project Reveal - No date given

EverWild - Releasing First Half 2023

Fable IV - No date given

Forza Motorsport 8 - Releasing Late 2022

Gears of War: Enhanced Collection - Releasing Late 2022

Gears of War 6 - No date given

New id Project Reveal - No date given

Indiana Jones - Releasing First Half 2024

New inXile Cobalt Project Reveal - Releasing 2023

New iO Project Reveal - No date given

New Oxide Project Reveal - No date given

Perfect Dark 3 - Releasing First Half 2024

Project Vonnegut Reveal - No date given

New Compulsion Games Project Reveal - No date given

New Obsidian Project Reveal - No date given

Redfall - Releasing First Half 2023

Scorn - Releasing October 2022

Sea of Thieves Update

New Brass Lion Project Reveal - Releasing 2023

New Stoic Studios Project Reveal - Releasing 2023

Hellblade II - Releasing First Half 2023

Starfield - Releasing First Half 2023

STALKER 2 - Releasing First Half 2023

State of Decay 3 - Releasing 2024

The Elder Scrolls VI - Releasing Second Half 2024

Wolfenstein III - Releasing 2023/2024

Ubisoft+ Coming to Game Pass

Updates on Contraband, The Outer Worlds II

If true, it suggests that 2022 is largely a software write off again for Xbox but Early 2023 onward looks to be when the platforms software pipeline will finally be bearing consistent fruit and that's before the Activision buyout goes through also.

[MarioMark]

If true, it suggests that 2022 is largely a software write off again for Xbox but Early 2023 onward looks to be when the platforms software pipeline will finally be bearing consistent fruit and that's before the Activision buyout goes through also.

I know games take time to develop but excluding MS's main 3 games (Halo, Forza and Gears) since the launch of Xbox One, it's always felt MS have us waiting. As much as we like the guy, his name should be Phil "The Games Are Coming" Spencer

[endo]

I'll eat my Xbox if the next Elder Scrolls comes out second half 2024.

[wakka]

Hahaha, yeah, that line calls the entire list into question. There is no way it is coming anywhere near that soon.

[Lebowski]

Practically a blog on this at this rate.
Rewards

The longest streak I previously managed was around 78 days. Today was the day I finally hit Day 200 and whilst the Game Pass app is preparing to update with this months challenges to bank I've reached just over the 6 month mark from clearing out my points having hit a total of 142,902 points.

That puts me just under 4,000 points away from reaching £125 in MS Store Credit that can be claimed. It's a faster curve than I had initially projected too presuming MS don't nerf things any further. Maintaining momentum till late December when I hit the 1 year mark there's a chance I could theoretically get within £10-£15 of covering the entire cost of a Series S.

I'm up to about 70,000 thousand since crimbo not been playing everyday or doing all the polls and quizzes on Bing but an extra 50ish quid form doing the odd bit of stuff is a nice little bonus.

I found a nice little trick on the xbox if you open up Bing via the rewards app on xbox you get a spalsh screen with entertainment sports news tabs ect flicking through this and clicking each one gets you three points per click and is a really quick way to get your daily bing searches in.

[nonny]

I know games take time to develop but excluding MS's main 3 games (Halo, Forza and Gears) since the launch of Xbox One, it's always felt MS have us waiting. As much as we like the guy, his name should be Phil "The Games Are Coming" Spencer

I dunno that line-up is pretty decent as a tide over till next year.

I've been waiting to see how Scorn turns out after all this time but from recent footage it seems like it could still be a pretty original, if horrific experience.

Deathloop, well I've purposely held off paying for it on PS5 because you know it's going to land in game pass.

Then you've got the Goldeneye remake, possible Forza Horizon 5 DLC... and maybe Forza Motorsport 8 / Gears remakes.

I'm sure there'll be a few more 3rd party day one game pass announcements as well.

It's not amazing, but if 2023 is kicking off with maybe Avowed and Stalker 2 then it'll run down the clock for the rest of this year nicely.

Of course the main draw card is if you've got game pass you can try them all. So if one or two don't quite hit the mark it's a low risk thing.

[nonny]

I'm up to about 70,000 thousand since crimbo not been playing everyday or doing all the polls and quizzes on Bing but an extra 50ish quid form doing the odd bit of stuff is a nice little bonus.

I found a nice little trick on the xbox if you open up Bing via the rewards app on xbox you get a spalsh screen with entertainment sports news tabs ect flicking through this and clicking each one gets you three points per click and is a really quick way to get your daily bing searches in.

I just do all that on my phone through Edge flicking between mobile and desktop mode.

Gets all the searching over in a minute or so.

[Tobal]

Use an extension i got years ago before they kicked it off the app store for Edge that just auto's the desktop and spoofs phone, no idea how to back it up if i ever lose this PC im on, as i tried all sort just save the extension as backup but it seems you can only backup edge as whole and not share it out.