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@restatbonfire: I think he is referring to microsoft/bing rewards, gives you points for playing Xbox games and doing web searches, etc through bing web browser.

@restatbonfire: Well yes and no, if you have 180,000 that doesn't mean it translates to it. For example there might be, play 10 random games in 10 weeks and score 1000 points, and login once a day, earn 50 kills, 10cents is 100 points, ect doing bing searches on your phone (answer the trivia, or pc)t's 30points that's 0.3cents overall yes and no.

@gns: yes and no you can depending on your term cash out you can use it to buy groceries, or buy 3 months gamepass ultimate, buy Microsoft products ect,

But each 10 points translates to 0.1 cent,

So 100 points is 10cents, 1000 points is $1 and 10000 points is $10, 30,000 is $30.

Sadly I have no idea if it will last forever given mixer platform died out unexpectedly, so don't think it will be easy to get.

But yes you can play games and earn, and inregards to achievement score thats unrelated, if your a Xbox embassador (meaning moderator, with 10,000 minimum points) yes you can also get privileges to the forum, special events, and for creating positive environment. But if someone flags you, you'll be taken out of the program, but that service has been running since 2009

@PrpleTrtleBuBum: Uhm no. Its mutually beneficial to both the devs and Epic as it is a marketing move for both.

@illegal_peanut: I'm old and I remember being a kid and installing a Soundblaster and single speed cd drive(the kind that you had to put the CD in a special case and put the case in the drive). You had to hand code the bios to install it.

I mean, when running that extra software was going to be a performance tax due to everyone almost always being memory starved was a thing or when people weren't practically giving away platter drives...I get worrying about installing extra software.

I also don't like the current business model of hoarding IPs exclusively to yourself in order to add the value to your service. It's very consumer unfriendly - as the new rise in piracy since the market has become saturated with streaming services clearly shows. It also stagnates innovation.

The thing is when you rigidly adhere to a platform(and Valve knows it), you get no innovation because competition drives innovation. There were digital game stores before Steam. They didn't make you install any clients and didn't contain any extra DRM. So, once people buy in and become Steam sycophants, their biggest gripe with other platforms becomes "Why do I have to install a client??!! Why is there DRM??!!". It's like a FIFA player complaining about loot crates in Overwatch...

Examples of games requiring other launchers when bought via Steam? At the top of my head, any recent Ubisoft game.