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Microsoft Reportedly Phasing Out MS Points

Posted on Monday, October 8 @ 15:20:40 Eastern by Alex_Osborn


If converting dollars to Microsoft Points drives you insane, believe me, you are not alone. Fortunately, it looks like the Big M may finally be wising up, as a new report suggests that those pesky points will soon be a thing of the past.

According to The Verge, when purchasing content on the Xbox Video store through the Windows 8 beta, it defaults to credit card transactions. The option to pay with Microsoft Points is still there, but has been pushed aside in favor of real money.

Thank goodness. I mean honestly, who thought it was a good idea to have 800 MS Points equate to $10? It makes absolutely no sense—unless confusing the consumer is the end goal here. I know what you're thinking, but no, I don't think Microsoft is quite that evil.

Of course, since there's no official word that this change will be rolling out in a new dashboard update, we'll have to remain patient until we receive confirmation. Though, it's hard to imagine them not moving forward with this.

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  • BigTruckSeries
    BigTruckSeries

    Joined: May 2006
    Posted: Oct 8th, 2012 at 4:16 pm
    I keep getting emails telling me how to get free MS points, but I don't pay them any mind.
  • wildmario
    wildmario

    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Oct 8th, 2012 at 4:31 pm
    Is it from that Nigerian Prince?
  • BigTruckSeries
    BigTruckSeries

    Joined: May 2006
    Posted: Oct 9th, 2012 at 4:13 am
    WORSE: A Japanese American Princess.
  • WILLS_COOL_MODE
    WILLS_COOL_MODE

    Joined: Oct 2010
    Posted: Oct 8th, 2012 at 4:20 pm
    I'm pretty sure confusing the consumer actually was the end goal, not just for the sake of confusion, but because it nets them more money. For example, I don't know if it's still like this as I haven't used Live in quite a while, but it used to be that no matter how many points you bought, they came in a number that couldn't be used properly. I don't remember the exact numbers but say you bought 1200 points, everything costs 800 points, so you buy something and then you have 400 points left over that you can't do anything with, so if you want to use them you have to buy MORE points. I'd imagine they've fixed this (if not they're even more horrible than I thought) but for at least the time I used live, it was a really dickish way to get more money.
  • Axelownz
    Axelownz

    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Oct 8th, 2012 at 5:28 pm
    Points used to be much worse, now they are not so bad as long as you know the conversions for them. Its pretty easy though, 80 is a dollar, 400 is 5, and just use that as a base.

    Back when they were first around you could only buy 500 points as the lowest, so if something was 400 you would have 100 point to spend on nothing, if something was 800, you would need 1000 points. Now you can just buy 400 or 800 points.

    Would still rather have the PSN and 3DS way of doing it by just adding needed funds.
  • used44
    used44

    Joined: Mar 2002
    Posted: Oct 9th, 2012 at 1:09 am
    Pretty much this. The simple math has never been confusing. And once they made it easier to buy the exact amount of points you wanted without overspending, it's been really nice. I won't mind seeing the MS points gone, but they aren't so bad.
  • UghRochester
    UghRochester

    Joined: Jun 2006
    Posted: Oct 8th, 2012 at 5:43 pm
    I actually like the use of MS points. I don't have to worry about my CC information being compromised and I don't have to worry about auto-renewal on my account.
  • Bretimus_v2
    Bretimus_v2

    Joined: Jan 2009
    Posted: Oct 9th, 2012 at 5:11 pm
    I just never understood why they did it in the first place. It felt like Disney bucks.

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