Microsoft Reportedly Phasing Out MS Points

I keep getting emails telling me how to get free MS points, but I don't pay them any mind.

Is it from that Nigerian Prince?

WORSE: A Japanese American Princess.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I just never understood why they did it in the first place. It felt like Disney bucks.