Xbox is seemingly ending one easy way to get free money

It looks like Microsoft has ended the Monthly Bonus Round punch card that you could find in the Microsoft Rewards app. This means that one effective method of routinely nabbing rewards points (that you could convert to cash, redeemable within the Xbox Store and other retailers) has been terminated.

If you log into the Rewards app, you’ll note September’s punch card is gone. Nowhere to be found. And that is apparently the same for all Xbox users – though there’s been no official communication from Xbox about this matter, one Reddit user reached out to the platform holder itself to see what’s going on with the situation. Per a response from the company, Microsoft’s “research team found that the offer is currently unavailable in your country at this time.”

The writing was on the wall for the Rewards punch card, though. As of July’s Monthly Bonus Round punch card in the Rewards app on Xbox, there was a significant reduction in the number of Microsoft Rewards points you could earn – it was down from 2,000 to 1,000. And now, well, it’s nothing!