300 free microsoft points through xbox rewards for using your xbox 360

I don't even know if I can get to youtube or any of those "entertainment apps" but I guess I'll try and humor them just to see. I figure I could leave it on idle while I'm at work and come back to it finished.

Now my question is, does the kinect game have to be a "Kinect Required" game like Dance Central or can it be a "Kinect Recommended" game like Child of Eden. Not nearly enough specifics in Microsoft's post to satisfy me.

I do not think it is an April fools because of there being a terms and conditions...the fact they are asking you to spend points...and that the offer lasts until April 30th.

Quote from Frankentots : I don't even know if I can get to youtube or any of those "entertainment apps" but I guess I'll try and humor them just to see. I figure I could leave it on idle while I'm at work and come back to it finished. Now my question is, does the kinect game have to be a "Kinect Required" game like Dance Central or can it be a "Kinect Recommended" game like Child of Eden. Not nearly enough specifics in Microsoft's post to satisfy me.

On the site there is a link to the approved games. I doubt playing a Kinect game without a Kinect is going to work, there are other options.

Their deals are impossible to track though...i doubt they will have a site that tells you what you have completed and what you haven't...

Task 3 kills it, all three of those options sound awful. Facebook over Live equals mild torture.

Quote from newone757 : wow thats a lot of work for $3.75 worth of points. Not a bad freebie if you do all this already though. I dont unfortunately dont have this kind of time

well, its what 15 hours of "work".

I play 1 hour over the 5 weekdays and 2-3 hours each on the weekend. I watch Youtube and Netflix and video kinect with my buddy, so yay for 300 free MSP!

So do you have to sign up for this or claim it somehow? or is this automatic?

Quote from AlbanianCham : So do you have to sign up for this or claim it somehow? or is this automatic?

As long as you have a rewards account it should be automatic, but it's been less than stellar for me with it's track record before. For example, I've made several purchases on the Marketplace ranging from DCL to XBLA games and it's still never given me the "100 points for your first Marketplace purchase."

Thanks for the heads up, rep'd

Quote from Frankentots : As long as you have a rewards account it should be automatic, but it's been less than stellar for me with it's track record before. For example, I've made several purchases on the Marketplace ranging from DCL to XBLA games and it's still never given me the "100 points for your first Marketplace purchase."

That is for your very first purchase, if you ever purchased anything on XBL before signing up for Rewards you wont get that

geez, id have to play on live for 10 hours?
thats a bit much,

Quote from FriendlyFires : geez, id have to play on live for 10 hours? thats a bit much,

Someone please come over and play my XBox for me, lol. Actually, I'm not kidding. Maybe I can get my nephews to visit?

Wow!!

Thanks OP!!

I don't trust them accurately tracking this information, but it's worth a shot. Thanks.

Edit: For Task 2 I can stream the movie Giant three times for 10 hours of Netflix. For Task 3 an hour long youtube video of Nyan Cat should do. Any good suggestions for Task 1 where I can leave the Xbox running without paying it much mind?

SOB i just bought 1200 ptts yesterday for the map packs for mw3 which btw are gay fml

Quote from aerotive : Task 3 kills it, all three of those options sound awful. Facebook over Live equals mild torture.

Sounds pretty easy actually: launch youtube, choose a video that's over an hour long, play it and then go do something else for an hour. Depending on how it checks usage, you might just be able to sit with the youtube app up but not doing anything.

I'm more worried about #2 since I don't pay for any of those apps so I'd probably just have to try using last.fm...but is there any way to tell when you've met the criteria of the category? Would be pretty annoying if I left my Xbox 360 running for hours at a time only to find out that it didn't qualify me for one area because it didn't track it or whatever.