GTA 6 costs $79.99 for the Standard Edition and $99.99 for the Ultimate Edition. For most people that is just the price of entry. But a small group of Xbox players have found a way to pay nothing at all, and the irony is that Rockstar’s years of delays are the reason it worked.
What People Are Doing
Players have been accumulating Microsoft Reward points for months and cashing them in to cover the full cost of a GTA 6 pre-order on Xbox. One Reddit user, HugoWheynow, summed it up perfectly after posting their purchase confirmation: “Thank you Rockstar for all the delays, which allowed me to have all these extra months to save my Microsoft points.”
Another player, CarolinaKing704, pre-ordered the Ultimate Edition five months early using points they had been stockpiling for nearly three years. The Ultimate Edition costs 100,000 Microsoft points to redeem.
How Microsoft Rewards Works
Microsoft Rewards is a loyalty program that assigns point values to everyday actions inside Microsoft’s ecosystem. You earn points by:
- Searching on Bing (up to 150 points per day on PC, 100 on mobile, at five points per search)
- Buying games and subscriptions through the Microsoft Store (20 points per dollar at the highest tier)
- Completing daily tasks in the Rewards dashboard
- Playing games through Xbox Game Pass
- Referring friends to use Bing
At the highest reward tier, which requires an active Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription, dedicated users can accumulate roughly 10,000 points per month. That translates to approximately $10 in value, meaning someone who started saving 10 months ago could realistically cover the Standard Edition entirely. The Ultimate Edition requires closer to 10 months of consistent effort at that pace, which is exactly the window GTA 6’s delays provided.
How to Redeem Points for GTA 6
Once you have enough points, go to the Microsoft Rewards dashboard, select “Redeem,” and convert your balance into an Xbox Gift Card. Apply that gift card to your Microsoft account balance and use it toward your GTA 6 pre-order on the Xbox Store.
One important note flagged by players who have already done this: if you mix your Microsoft account balance with another payment method during checkout, you may be charged twice when the game actually releases in November. Use your points balance to cover the full purchase, or make sure any remaining amount is covered entirely by your account balance with no secondary card attached.
Is It Worth Starting Now?
If you have not started saving points yet, you can still cut the cost. Starting today and using Bing consistently alongside Xbox Game Pass activity, most users can accumulate 5,000 to 8,000 points per month. That is roughly $5 to $8 per month in real terms, which over five months adds up to $25 to $40 off your purchase.
It is not a free copy at this stage, but it is a meaningful discount on a game that does not appear to be going on sale anytime soon.
GTA 6 launches November 19, 2026. Pre-load begins November 12.
