Xbox Live Rewards Pilot Program Begins

Remember the mysterious Xbox Live rewards program that select subscribers were emailed about last month? It apparently kicked off as of yesterday -- for those who were chosen for the pilot program, that is. Joystiq noticed this morning that Microsoft's official rewards website has gone live , and it has all the details on the program, what incentives are available, and the kind of activity subscribers are being rewarded for. Essentially, a small number of Microsoft points will be added to a user's account whenever they renew their Live subscription, subscribe to Netflix, purchase items on the Marketplace, or take the occasional survey. Save for the surveys, most of those seem like the kind of things Live users were probably already planning on doing. The trial run of this program is going from now until April 30 of next year, so we'll see how much that all changes before it becomes available to everyone. (link)