Comment on Microsoft guts Microsoft Rewards points, and its fans are outraged

netchami@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• RagingInside@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is why we can’t have nice things.

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean in their defense, fuck Microsoft with a rusty nail, and this system was basically designed for exploitation.

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  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, this is why systems that aren’t rigorously designed to preclude exploitation like this simply shouldn’t be released. If flaws like this exist in the system, they will be exploited. It’s not on the users if they exploited a flaw, even if you say “please don’t exploit the flaw”.

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    • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s a continuum between this kind of thing and, say, ransomware attacks. I’m not sure where the line should be drawn.

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  • Welt@lazysoci.al ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Microsoft Rewards isn’t a “nice thing”.

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    • DesolateMood@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Idk man I get free game pass every month and people much more patient than me have been able to get entire free consoles. I’d call that pretty nice

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• just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You should like part of the reason they gutted the thing, then.

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  • netchami@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I stopped doing this a few years ago but the system was flawed from the ground up. The fact that they did nothing to this kind of abuse it mind-boggling. No one actually used this the way it was intended to be used.

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    • BallsInTheShredder@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But they did do something eventually lol

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  • grayman@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re giving out made up points and then letting you trade them for copies of digital files. They’re not really losing much.

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• Pxtl@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For ones where they give you a code for a non-MS service (eg LoL or Overwatch tokens) couldn’t you bot-farm this and then literally just sell the redemption code?

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  • netchami@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you actually started selling these, they would probably shut that down pretty quickly and maybe even sue you

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    • Pxtl@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Obviously. Don’t get caught.

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