This makes me sad 20MSP Short!

Today is one of those days when I was ready to take the plunge and download myself some Minecraft. Yeah I know its not the PC version and I'm sure it has about a million features missing, but I wanted a go.

I was a couple of hundred points short at the beginning of the day, but I saw a deal on GAME where I get 240MSP free with BioShock Infinite.

I was rather chuffed and thought POW! Minecraft shall be mine. An e-mail with a code for 240 points later and the image you see above appears.

I couldn't believe it. This isn't the first time this has ever happened to me and sure it wont be the last either. I frantically do the 20MSP survey on the rewards site in vein as I know I wont be getting the points any time soon.

So I thought I'd just share my little roller coaster of an evening with you all. If only I could be donated 20MSP sigh.

UPDATE: I have been saved from an evening of terrible TV.

A massive thank you to Baillie, helping me out in my hour of need and allowing me to hit all manor of things with a pixelated pickaxe :)

Double bad news, they roll out points by the 100s. So you need to get 100 points stacked up in rewards before they send them to your account.

If you sign up to the rewards program, they send you 20 MSP as a birthday gift.

Yes, they give you 25c as a 'gift.'

This has happened to me more than once. I hope they get rid of it on the next system.

It really seems pointless. Hah!

I have 20 points in my account, great.

Word is that straight up currency is the currency of the nextbox, so at least this won't happen much longer? Just play Infinite while you wait, good stuff that.

I thought I got like 400msp (dead rising prequel dlc) once all from bing searches.

@aishan: They may give you 20msp points as a gift, but you need to have been rewarded at least 100msp to receive any of it.

You can also do monthly questionnaires for 20 points a pop. It's not hard to get to 100. I've made like 400 free through rewards.xbox.com.

I wish I could give you the 20 points I got for my birthday.

Cursed MSP has been a bane since it began, even Nintendo now allows you to use straight up money.

@gareff: Check your PMs.

Use Bing Rewards to get some more points! You can get 100 MS points for 125 "Bing" points in like a week. 30 searches gets you 15 points (per day), and I think you get like 50 for just signing up.

@starfoxa: Hey, I did check out Bing rewards, but unfortunately its not for my region :(

I have had 40 points on my account for more than 3 years now. I can't bring myself to buy a stupid shirt for my avatar or something to get rid of it so it is still there.