The whole Gimme 5 promo is rubbish. The MS Marketing Dept. should be fired.

1. Nothing has been communicated clearly to punters. What time was it due to start yesterday? What time is it due to start today? Can you enter more than once? Does anyone even know if it is running more than one day (this will be answered soon)?

2. It was late launching yesterday anyway, somebody forgot to flip the switch. By the time it did nobody knew what was going on and most missed out.

3. The whole concept of 'fastest finger first' is flawed. Everybody knows that this only serves to overload web pages and as a result frustrates users when they can't load. So what does everyone do? Press 'Refresh' repeatedly and cause even more congestion. There are many complaints over the net that people couldn't log on, when they did the decent items were already claimed, or they said they were available and then couldn't be claimed. It all just seems very unfair.

4. Most of the most decent stuff is probably getting claimed by bots.

5. MS has been promoting a hashtag #gimme5 to generate excitement and advertising. Bad move. All the Tweets are critical of the whole thing. [Face palm].

I'm not just going to whinge, I'm going to suggest how it could be run better. To me these improvements are so obvious I don't understand why someone at MS did not put their brain in gear.

1. Communicate clearly all the points I made in 1. above. This is incredibly easy to do.

2. Make the whole claim process fair. Instead of first one to get through, each person gets to 'open a present' once per day (you could even have a cute little animation). Opening your present gives you a random chance to win something, obviously the rare stuff has a much lower chance. This method is used by all sorts of sites all the time, easy to do.

As it stands I think the Gimme 5 promo sucks.

I have been with Rewards since the start and have received feck all as per usual, it does seem unfair that here in the UK we are left out of these big giveaways yet we seem to always pay a higher price generally for services and games.

xbox demonstrating yet again it's better than Playstation.

do you know when it was refreshed?

Does anyone know if the prizes change at all? Has it even been refreshed (if anyone knows?)

Hasn't changed since at least 3pm yesterday!

Doesn't work.
Says stuff available until you click and get skanked.

The whole Gimme 5 promo is rubbish. The MS Marketing Dept. should be fired.

1. Nothing has been communicated clearly to punters. What time was it due to start yesterday? What time is it due to start today? Can you enter more than once? Does anyone even know if it is running more than one day (this will be answered soon)?

2. It was late launching yesterday anyway, somebody forgot to flip the switch. By the time it did nobody knew what was going on and most missed out.

3. The whole concept of 'fastest finger first' is flawed. Everybody knows that this only serves to overload web pages and as a result frustrates users when they can't load. So what does everyone do? Press 'Refresh' repeatedly and cause even more congestion. There are many complaints over the net that people couldn't log on, when they did the decent items were already claimed, or they said they were available and then couldn't be claimed. It all just seems very unfair.

4. Most of the most decent stuff is probably getting claimed by bots.

5. MS has been promoting a hashtag #gimme5 to generate excitement and advertising. Bad move. All the Tweets are critical of the whole thing. [Face palm].

I'm not just going to whinge, I'm going to suggest how it could be run better. To me these improvements are so obvious I don't understand why someone at MS did not put their brain in gear.

1. Communicate clearly all the points I made in 1. above. This is incredibly easy to do.

2. Make the whole claim process fair. Instead of first one to get through, each person gets to 'open a present' once per day (you could even have a cute little animation). Opening your present gives you a random chance to win something, obviously the rare stuff has a much lower chance. This method is used by all sorts of sites all the time, easy to do.

As it stands I think the Gimme 5 promo sucks.

Still, nothing ...
Im still perplexed why im logged on and check this .....

It's back up now. Nothing new to see.

driving me mad now "LIVE"
if have linked up 4 times now to claim the DLC for COD but it accepts then say all gone but still says can claim upto 998 ? then keep getting this message
Please check again soon!

Gimme 5! Celebrating You is undergoing a short maintenance period.

While we make some adjustments, take a look at MyMissions for more ways to earn Rewards!

Unfair promotion. Microsoft don't state the time each set of offers becomes live plus anybody with a bad internet connection doesn't get the chance to claim anything. That's most of us in the UK except those on ultra fibre - people in the US have ridiculously fast speeds. The big prizes should be limited by country and winners should be selected by random draw. Yes, people will lose out, but it's more equal.

An absolute shambles.

xbox demonstrating yet again it's better than Playstation.

Seems abit rubbish or am I missing something ?

There are prizes shown in the grab bag that have not been released, so surely it's a daily thing?

in fact, reading the Ts and Cs, it seems that it's first come first served and once everything has gone the giveaway ends! hurry and grab your avatar outfits guys and gals lol

does anyone know if they are adding new deals daily or was it just a first come first served offer? I'm logged in and nothing has changed since lunchtime

Oh.
Makes sense.

Countdown is to get rid of all them track suits below they end up in Sports Direct's new year sale!

Not sure what makes you think it's being refreshed daily everything went last when it went live at 10pm

Only things left then was avatar stuff lol

Anyone got anything different?

got some new threads for my avatar while we wait. Going to be looking "fresh" in my trackies!!

its not even like the previous selection is that good..however im still here, like a mug, pressing F5, wearing out the keys.

MS what you doing to me...

Nothing new. Google lies about utc time

well i don't know why i'm so dissapointed its microsoft afterall 1 week after my consoles warrenty ended the console froze and messed up and they wouldn't repair it free of charge as it was 1 week out of warrenty instead they offered if i gave them my old console that they would sell me a refurb for £65

Same state as before 5pm - no refresh uet

i literally have just got it to refresh and everythings gone :/

nothing new thus far...hasnt refreshed as of 1707

nothing yet

Same here. Bad info re: 5pm refresh?

Working fine for me in safari. Keep refreshing to see what happens.

All been claimed

Not showing any new items as of yet

5pm - not updated??

Arrrgh can't get in, must be too many trying

Garbage, won't load the website properly, and more than likely nothing for UK residents.

I can get it to load in Internet Explorer - Google Chrome keeps looping back to the login page.

Doesn't seem to be loading for me! Thanks anyway.

Can't even access the website, absolutely **** joke Microsoft are to non US gamers. Halo 5 seems to have dedicated servers only in USA as well.

I'm in the rewards and frequently purchase digital versions of games from Xbox.com yet nothing ever shows in my rewards as purchased! Useless scheme but if I can get something for free here it'll make it better.

I'd love that to be quoted & retweeted on xbl twitter & other media accounts, ...start something!

Very surprised anyone outside America got anything wouldn't let me and loads of others claim anything was on minutes before it was even tweeted about.

It's been years since I've seen Xbox Rewards. And now it's too late for me 'cause I don't use Xbox online anymore.

I would think it's one selection per gamertag for the promo otherwise it's fastest finger first every day and some of those top prizes are tasty

i claimed an avatar costume by accident, now the website says i cant select another prize would this be the case just for today or for the length of the promotion?

Will try later great thanks

Can you pick one or multiple things?

there were a few left showing under the vintage goodies section just now

5pm tonight then

Do you know what time tomorrow's "stash" becomes available?