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[UK] Forza Horizon 5 (preorder) Punch Card - What is this nonsense?

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I’ve been waiting for this punch card for months, knowing I am definitely buying the premium edition of this game. Finally it is here… but…

Buying the game is not enough… I also have to buy a movie I don’t want, from within a range of fairly god awful titles for minimum £3.99..

Thus, wiping out the complete value of the bonus 5000 reward points.

Honestly pissed at this.

EDIT:

OK this is weird, and not mentioned anywhere else, but if you look at the movie selection in a browser on a PC, at the top of the page it mentions you also get a £4 gift card on top of the 5000 reward points

UK link to movie page - https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/store/movies-and-tv/collection/fh_highoctanesale

Posted Oct 25, 2021, 7:32 AM UTC · edited

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ZELDASBABYDADDY•

Considering maybe 75% of the people who are going to play this will go the cheap route and just take the free gamepass version, this punch card takes a massive dump on the heads of the people that will actually still buy the game outright. I say this as someone who is just going to use the gamepass edition, but preorder the premium addons

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almstram•

I only want buy the premium add ons but I don't know it that counts as a pre-order here, probably not.

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DefAdeProOP•

Apparently it doesn’t.

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FeistyBandicoot•

Kinda dumb. It should count, isn't it basically the same price as the base game?

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DaddyTrav•

Wait....why does it apparently not count?

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wpmason•

Because it’s DLC, not the game.

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DaddyTrav•

Yeah I saw that after I commented. That's a shame. I was only going to buy the ultimate bundle because the base game is on GP. Oh well. This is a punch card I won't be grabbing.

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nfos•

I saw it this morning too, 5000 points isn't even £5. Isn't the punchcard offer usually 6000 points? Without buying a film?

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DefAdeProOP•

The points have been up and down the last few releases.

Cards currently available:

Call of Duty Vanguard - £60 game = 6000pts Rider Republic - £60 game = 4000pts

Doesn’t make a lot of sense. COD is probably going to outsell Riders Republic 15 to 1, so you’d think that’d be the one they cheap out on.

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gcooldude•

I do want to buy one of the Forza editions but not a movie as well, hope they do a punch card on the Xbox rewards app just for the game itself.

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WOBNIARR•

I'm still waiting for the £8 gift card I was meant to get with the 5,000 reward points from the Summer Spotlight Sale. Don't pin your hopes on these gift cards happening as some have received them and some haven't.

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NotFromMilkyWay•

You are confusing two things. The reward points were given out for spending X amount of money in the summer sale. The gift card was given out for spending X amount of money on the new releases of the summer indie promotion. You did not get both with just one sale.

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WOBNIARR•

Oh. That makes sense. I wish they'd made that clearer in the t's & c's, but I guess that's just my luck. To be honest, I'm not mad, I still got the rewards points. It just would have helped to have that information presented better. Ah well.

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Dustmite72•

the 6,000 point pre-order punch cards are always only on the xbox, not on your Rewards Dashboard on the PC. Odds are, if you buy the game, there will be a double dip opportunity, allowing you 11,000 points (and possibly 1 of 3 movie purchases for an additional 2,500 points, depending on when you make the purchase).

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Also, if you look at the movies page, this is at the top:

"Buy any movie in the High-octane sale + pre-order Forza Horizon 5, get a $5 Xbox Gift Card and 5,000 MS Rewards points. Offer ends 11/8. See aka.ms/HighOctaneUS for terms."

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TheCastroMOD-US For the love of GOD read the Living Sticky before posting•

the 6,000 point pre-order punch cards are always only on the xbox,

This one is 5,000 on the Xbox

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glassvialUS- Enthusiast•

And the same offer is on both the Xbox and Rewards dashboard on desktop.

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TheCastroMOD-US For the love of GOD read the Living Sticky before posting•

Correct, I was pointing out that dustmite's they're all 6,000 is wrong and that it's the same punch card.

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glassvialUS- Enthusiast•

You're right, we've all gotten so used to (almost) every punch card offer for purchase being 6000 points we've gotten spoiled. I hope this offer isn't a new normal for those heavy purchasers.

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buffysbangs•

Wow, what a garbage offer

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Akuryu•

If I've already preordered the game, can I still get these points?

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ZELDASBABYDADDY•

Not without canceling and re-buying

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Noprot•

I get your frustration with the punch card but your description of the movie options as "fairly god awful" is just terrible... John wick, Austin powers, mad max or bullitt to name but a few and the fact you get £4 back on top of points...seems you're a bit whiny

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EmergedTroller•

Sounds like another shit testing the waters attempt to see just how much money they can get people to part with, while giving very little back. They do this from time to time...

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glassvialUS- Enthusiast•

Diamond hands, stay strong, DO NOT BUY!!

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Unlike-Twistah•

Anybody actually got the points for this yet? Bought the £85 ver with this punchcard enabled, then bought dumb and dumber. Still not had the Horizon 5 part tick off yet. Kinds relying on this to get Vangaurd

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imVative•

Maybe this is a mistake and it will be fixed soon. The punchcard states that the purchase and the achievements must be completed till November 8th. But i dont see the task to get an achievement. Maybe i just get it wrong.

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DefAdeProOP•

I’m assuming that the reference to achievements is a copy/paste gaff from previous cards

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onkel_axel•

Will this work with the premium add on bundle, or most likely not?

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almstram•

I was hoping too but after reading aka.ms/HighOctaneGB it is not likely. No mention of add ons :-(

1) pre-ordering one of the following Forza Horizon 5 Pre-Order Bundles by 11:59 local time on November 7, 2021: Forza Horizon 5 Standard Edition Pre-Order Game Bundle, Forza Horizon 5 Deluxe Edition Pre-Order Game Bundle, Forza Horizon 5 Premium Edition Pre-Order Game Bundle, or Forza Horizon 5 Premium Edition Launch Bundle, or 2) purchasing the Forza Horizon 5 Premium Edition Game Bundle after launch

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onkel_axel•

Well I'll wait a few more weeks. I'll buy the add on anyways. Hopefully some other deal will pop up. Holidays is where you get a lot of MS rewards option to earn points.

At worst it's 20 points per $ spent

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ZELDASBABYDADDY•

I can confirm it does not work. Just preordered the add-on bundle. Series x in the US

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onkel_axel•

Thanks.

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DaddyTrav•

None of the "buy the game" or "preorder the game" punch cards work right away anyway. They usually take days for the transition to count. Confirming anything at this point might be hasty.

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gcooldude•

Just noticed too for Canada you get a $7 MS GC plus 5000 points and most the movies cost $5, so your getting your money back basically.

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Retro_uk•

What is the usual points return? You should get more points depending on whether you go for the uber version or not.

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glassvialUS- Enthusiast•

Usually 6000 for a $60 game, this is only 5000 PLUS you're forced to buy a movie.

Also, I can confirm the same punch card is live in the US with the same terms.

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DARK_MASTER8632UK•

I see it both on the MR app on XBox and on the MR webpage.

Seeing that kind of punch card on the webpage is the weirder part.

I don't remember seeing there a punch card for a specific game.

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glassvialUS- Enthusiast•

You're right, it's on my dash banner too, and again, same terms. I wasn't paying attention to that and just checked my Xbox first for the punch card.

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DARK_MASTER8632UK•

Soo, double dipping ?

As someone suggested here. I doubt it but, eh.

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EricKillMongerz•

I see a movie for 0.99 so that might be worth it

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Misanthrope-X•

I saw that one too but thats only to rent it. Its $4 to buy it and the punch card stipulates buying one of the movies.

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harry48692•

This punchcard doesn't seem to be working for me. I preordered horizon 5 after activating the punch card but it hasn't registered. I bought the movie and it did register

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DaddyTrav•

Transactions like this always take a few days for the punch card to count.

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XxCabookaxX•

I canceled and then re-pre-ordered it again and the punch card still isn’t checked. Will it only check once the game gets charged to my card around ten days before release?

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doruku•

Calling Bullitt a "fairly god-awful movie"... 🤦🏻‍♂️

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OkAcanthopterygii913•

• I agree, why does it not mention the £4 gift card on Xbox rewards app!

• Am I to buy the movie through the Xbox rewards app or the website, will it be any different ?

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