Xbox Users Roast 'Generous' Store Credit Offer

Xbox is kindly helping its users celebrate their birthday with “rewards,” though they’re not the kind anyone’s asking for.

Anytime you need to sign up for something or make an account somewhere you must provide your date of birth. Companies use this date for a variety of reasons but more often than not they’ll throw a bone your way on your big day to celebrate.

It could be a free gift, a voucher of some kind or just well wishes. Either way it’s a nice gesture and even some video games will celebrate the day you spawned into this world. Your Animal Crossing villagers throwing a birthday party for you will never not be adorable.

As some users are now finding out Xbox will commemorate your birthday as well but its idea of a gift needs some work.

Xbox Users Can’t Help But Laugh At Company’s Birthday Reward

Reddit user cornflakesdaddy recently celebrated their big day and shared a hilarious message they’d received from Xbox.

The “birthday surprise” was “2x Rewards points for every game or add-on you buy this week in the Store!”

“Thank you so much Xbox, you’re so generous to me” said cornflakesdaddy in the post.

Now it’s of course lovely that Xbox acknowledges our birthdays in the first place but encouraging you to spend a fortune on its games on your big day is a pretty lousy gift.

Xbox

Other Xbox users certainly thought so and they of course took the opportunity to mock the company for its frankly insulting offer.

“Your gift is nothing and you will be happy” mocked techpower888, whilst Slow-Pack-8916 added “Happy birthday, money please.”

Propaslander said: “You should be honoured to be given the prompt to buy some of their s*** on your birthday.”

Finally Stonerlilt187 said: “See I was wondering what the birthday thing was going to be, basically nothing, disappointed.”

The weird thing is Xbox has been prone to handing out random gift cards recently. Around some of the recent sales some users had $5 worth of credit appear in their inbox, for no particular reason at all.

You’d think for something like your birthday you’d be guaranteed to get one of these vouchers but perhaps that’s too much to ask given Xbox’s active user base.

Either way it’s hilarious to think the company believes 2x the reward points will encourage you to buy a bunch of AAA games.

Unless you were planning on buying some of the latest releases like LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight or 007 First Light this gift truly is worthless.

But hey, it’s the thought that counts right?

READ NEXT: 007 First Light Buying Guide: Everything Included In Each Version