Microsoft has invited a select group of Xbox Live users to participate in the Xbox Live Rewards Squad affinity program. I mentioned the dealio a few weeks ago. The program is now live (for some) and the official site lists the following details:
For the next six months, the Rewards Squad will hook you up with Microsoft Points just for doing the stuff Xbox Live members do all the time. You’ll score points not only for renewing your Gold subscriptions; you’ll get a reward on what you spend on the Xbox Live Marketplace. The best part is, the more you spend, the more you get, and for each month you stay on Gold, the higher your monthly reward up to 5% of your Marketplace spend.
Here’s a giant graphic with some of the rewards players can earn. After you’ve gotten over its largeness, let me know what you think of Xbox Live Rewards Squad. Is the eventual goal to fight Best Buy’s Geek Squad? Probably.
I'll take some surveys.
if they are going to fight the geek squad, I hope they come rolling up in a Rewards Squad Prius to combat the Geek Squad Herbie.
Looks like my Gold account expired at the right time.
Why not? Microsoft "larcens"/"larcenies"/(whatever-the-verb-would-be) everything else from … well, everyone else…
Besides that, I really don't know if this looks all that appealing to me.