Bizarrely, yesterday evening Xbox 360 owners starting getting credited with Microsoft points on their 360 accounts.
The bug was apparently connected with the Xbox rewards program, but it was erroneously firing out up to 2,000 points (about £17) overnight, seemingly randomly.
People checking their account saw that the system was bumping up their points total by 100 – 200 points at a time, with some netting fairly substantial amounts of points that they could instantly spend.
Sadly, this morning it appears that the points have been taken away from those that didn’t spend them, despite Microsoft saying that “the points you were rewarded are yours.”
It does appear that it’s only the incorrectly added points that were taken back, though, if you had 1,000 before, got boosted by 2,000 and spent 2,000, you’d still have 1,000.
Did anyone manage to grab Bastion for ‘free’, then?
MayContainEvil
What an extremely awesome mess-up. Well if you managed to buy a game before you lost them again, now why can’t the PSN have glitches like this?
Mason_Mk
Ive grabbed quite a few games for free through PSN glitches over the years, mostly for PSP however but i got FM 2009, Buzz Quiz World, GTA LCS and more for the sweet price of nothing through glitches :)
rht992
haha yes because want we really want are more hacks and glitches on PSN
smokeybeef
From what I gather, it was giving people their reward amount for that amount, but six times, separately.
Wish I’d earnt enough to get some free points, yet alone six times that amount!
Smallville2106
Great for those that managed to spend them.
D-Nichol
i wish xbox werent so efficient at solving the problem. i could capitalised
FOOTYDUDE94
Wondered why i had 400 more points yesterday
The Lone Steven
It must have been a glitch caused by an update. I think they were testing some new code with the rewards program and may have done a typo in the code. A single typo can cause a glitch like this. I wonder how many TSAers took advantage of the glitch and brought a few things for free?