Your Xbox Live Gamerscores at the moment are value one thing.
However earlier than you make investments hours in entrance of your Xbox, notice that with a brand new rewards system known as MyAchievements, the precise reward folks earn look like minimal.
Right here’s the way it breaks down: Xbox Live Rewards Gold members can now earn factors that coincide with a Gamerscore. There are three ranges, every with a special set of rewards:
Contender (3,000 —9,999 Gamerscore factors)
Reward: A “Particular Reward” throughout your birthday month. Within the high-quality print, Xbox says the retail worth of the unnamed “present” is roughly 25 cents. So, glad birthday.
Champion (10,000 — 24,999 factors)
Reward: That “Particular Reward” throughout your birthday month once more and a one p.c rebate in your Xbox LIVE Market purchases each month.
Legend (25,000 +)
Reward: The identical “Particular Reward” and this time, a two p.c rebate.
There may be additionally a rebate cap of 30,000 factors from now till the rewards promotion expires on June 30, 2013. To rake in 30,000 rebate factors at a two p.c fee, a gamer must spend 1.5 million Market factors. Meaning $18,750 in actual cash. In the event you can spend that a lot on the Market in 9 months, effectively, that’s an achievement in itself.
Right here’s an instance of the rebate worth on the Legend tier. If you are going to buy a recreation for $20 with Microsoft factors, you’ve “spent ” 1600 factors based mostly on the alternate fee. A two p.c rebate on that will be 32 factors, which interprets into a complete 40 cents.
All in all, MyAchievements isn’t exactly going to make you wealthy. However I assume you may’t complain about further presents in your birthday, proper?
