Microsoft Rewards Appears To Be Increasing Its Prices For Xbox Game Pass

If you’re an avid Microsoft Rewards user, you’ve probably come across the “auto redeem” feature for Xbox and PC Game Pass at some point – a useful method for keeping your membership active without spending much (or anything at all!).

Unfortunately though, some Microsoft Rewards members have been receiving emails indicating a price increase could be on the way soon, and it most likely will affect more than just “auto redeem” users. The email that members have been getting suggests the price increase will occur around April 20, 2025 – it mentions that the current auto redeem options will be getting replaced, so anyone who uses them will have to re-subscribe to the new version(s) on that date.

Before we get into any further explanations, here’s a quick snapshot of the email that’s going around:

Taking a look at the “redeem” section of Microsoft Rewards here in the UK, the current method of redeeming a month of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for 12k points and PC Game Pass for 7.75k points is still available as part of the “auto redeem” feature, but there are two new versions that have just appeared for 17k and 10.5k points respectively.

So, the TL;DR is that here in the UK, it looks like 1 month of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate will be increasing from 12k points to 17k points, while 1 month of PC Game Pass will jump from 7.75k points to 10.5k points. We’re guessing the non-auto redeem versions will increase to at least 17k and 10.5k points in late April as part of this.

Note: The points totals mentioned above are exclusive to ‘Level 2’ members – they cost is slightly higher for Level 1 members. Level 2 basically means you get a bigger discount by engaging with the service more. It’s confusing, we know!

Obviously all of this is region-dependent and it may not affect your region, but it seems at first glance to be pretty widespread. If these are indeed the new prices, it’s a blow for “auto redeem” users in particular as 17k points is extremely tough to achieve in a month as things stand – in fact, we’re not entirely sure it can be done at all right now!

Fingers crossed we get more clarification around all of this very soon – we’ll let you know if and when that happens.