[The High Roller]

As the title says, Xbox LIVE has recently added the ability for gamers to unlock different discounts on products if they have attained a certain Gamerscore.

As videogamer.com mentions, if gamers have between 3,000-9,999 g.s, you will receive a "special gift" on your birthday (this is also more incentive for gamers to actually update their profiles). If you have between 10,000-24,999 g.s, you will also get a 1% rebate on all Xbox LIVE Marketplace purchases each month. Those with 25,000 or more Gamerscore will reap the benefits of 2% worth of rebates.

Fortunately, most Xbox LIVE purchases qualify for the rebates, but it's not exactly a significant savings. I can't really see it mattering much for the average gamer.

It is better than nothing at all, and I understand that Microsoft can't go giving huge discounts to millions of gamers all the time.

What do you guys think about the new program? Is it worth working towards a higher Gamerscore?Should they have offered more tiers of discounts for "Gamerscore whores?"

[Charon]

Interesting way for xbox to get back to the hard core community gamers, the only concern (not really a concern) that came to my mind was the people who have hacked their gamerscore into this rebate. Either way, it's not like they're giving out free games or anything, so it's not a bad thing.

[Oni]

It is about time. I was wondering how long it would be until they did something like this. It is nice to see that gamerscore will finally have some form of value. It is a shame my gamerscore was reset for cheating though.

[Complibur]

Damn! My old account was banned for mods and it had like 17,000 GS !

Also this is a good idea and has taken them long enough to figure out.