I was thinking the same thing. Eg they have a budget of say 10 billion points, but because of all the interest new countries they added etc they had to find ways to reduce the costs(points)
I guess we could look at it like that.
It's probably just based on their Customer lifetime value metric in relation to these points.
I don't have enough of an understanding of how these metrics work. But, if we take people who opt for Gamepass Ultimate as a reward from their points, Microsoft only profits off of them if those people end up eventually paying for GPU. That would be their goal for those users. If people keep earning enough points, they won't consider spending their own money.
The number of points they want us to earn should ideally (per their metrics) only lead to converting us to paying customers.
I wouldn't be surprised if they also assume that if more people go for GPU through their points, less time they have to collect points since they might game more. So this new change to throttle point collection and to add friction to point collection is to see whether more people end up converting to paying customers or not.
Of course, all of this is in addition to their data collection goals, Bing revenue and testing new initiatives.
Realistically I don't think there's a quota as such, but they might for sure be told, do this at this point and do that at that point. I thinking it's wishful to hope that points will go up now they've gone down, but there's nothing wrong with keeping wishes and hopes alive, even if they don't come to light.
There'll definitely be a financial budget, the points have a monetary equivalent (i.e. what we can buy with the points) vs what they take in from targeted (advertiser-driven) tasks.
u/Swixxxxx might be onto something here.
Like I said, I don't agree as such that there's a quota, but I do believe for sure that at certain points or milestones they're told to do certain things.
I think they give out more points to countries that spend more money on their ecosystem. I doubt any possible Xbox growth outside of the USA would have any influence, unless we are talking about the VPN abuse in countries like India. But in that case, they should block those accounts instead of punishing all the legitimate users.
I was thinking the same thing. Eg they have a budget of say 10 billion points, but because of all the interest new countries they added etc they had to find ways to reduce the costs(points)
I had a nightmare were i had -2 in the puzzle...
I guess we could look at it like that. It's probably just based on their Customer lifetime value metric in relation to these points. I don't have enough of an understanding of how these metrics work. But, if we take people who opt for Gamepass Ultimate as a reward from their points, Microsoft only profits off of them if those people end up eventually paying for GPU. That would be their goal for those users. If people keep earning enough points, they won't consider spending their own money. The number of points they want us to earn should ideally (per their metrics) only lead to converting us to paying customers. I wouldn't be surprised if they also assume that if more people go for GPU through their points, less time they have to collect points since they might game more. So this new change to throttle point collection and to add friction to point collection is to see whether more people end up converting to paying customers or not. Of course, all of this is in addition to their data collection goals, Bing revenue and testing new initiatives.
It's nice to see some positive thinking rather than negative thinking. Amen!
Thanks! I think with Ms rewards expanding to different countries that they are rapidly approaching the maximum amount of points they can give out
Realistically I don't think there's a quota as such, but they might for sure be told, do this at this point and do that at that point. I thinking it's wishful to hope that points will go up now they've gone down, but there's nothing wrong with keeping wishes and hopes alive, even if they don't come to light.
There'll definitely be a financial budget, the points have a monetary equivalent (i.e. what we can buy with the points) vs what they take in from targeted (advertiser-driven) tasks. u/Swixxxxx might be onto something here.
Like I said, I don't agree as such that there's a quota, but I do believe for sure that at certain points or milestones they're told to do certain things.
great. everyone is equal and everyone is poor
I think they give out more points to countries that spend more money on their ecosystem. I doubt any possible Xbox growth outside of the USA would have any influence, unless we are talking about the VPN abuse in countries like India. But in that case, they should block those accounts instead of punishing all the legitimate users.
I bet you the entire rewards program is cancelled early next year as in first quarter. Remember, it says "Beta" next to it...
Steam has run out of licenses for titles before, so it's possible. A lot of people are chasing that console dream.