[quote name='FoxHoundADAM']Thanks, but this seams like it will be abused heavily.[/QUOTE]
[quote name='Thrinn']Wouldn't it be limited to one sign-up per account?[/QUOTE]
[quote name='aznguyen316']Yeah I believe it will be tied to the xbox live account that was made, in order to circumvent signing up multiple emails and using a code to redeem on a single account. But I could be wrong which could be possible from the quote above. Anyway I signed up a couple days ago. 100 points is a 100 points..[/QUOTE]
The trick here is that the xbox.com accounts are linked to Live accounts. And, in order to abuse the offer, one would have to have/create a bunch of Live accounts. The Live account creation is a tricky one since it involves a dynamic captcha, as well as being limited to 3 new accounts per IP per day. So, most people would not have the resources available to circumvent the captcha and the IP address restriction, thus making it somewhat harder to abuse than it may appear at first glance.
That being said, people who happen to already have several Xbox or Live accounts will be able to easily and quickly sign up for the newsletter on each of their existing accounts without even having to pass a captcha challenge.
[quote name='crunchewy']I think I signed up. I checked the checkbox and clicked the button, but there was no acknowledgment, it just dumped me into the xbox website front page. Did anybody see anything other then that?[/QUOTE]
That is normal. If you tried the sign up link again, you would notice that it gets instantly forwarded to the xbox.com home page, bypassing the form entirely. So, it appears that the site has stored the fact that you already completed the form.
Eventually, I suspect that the 'new and improved' xbox.com site will let you select and remove your newsletter settings. The old site had a page for it, along with other account settings (like your privacy settings) which I cannot seem to find a way to get to... Yet?