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Xbox Game Pass Ultimate $1 per month; Gold and Gamepass conversion to Game Pass Ultimate
- Thread starter DeoGame
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If I already have this from the previous Insiders offer of this, how do I extend it for the $1 per month? I have some credit I'd like to use for that. Do I have to cancel, add Gold months, and sign back up for it? It's kind of confusing for my situation.
12 months gold = 4 months Game Pass Ultimate
3 months gold = 2 months Game Pass Ultimate
OK, I just signed up for game pass ultimate for £1, and turned off auto renew. But as I already had gold to next year, it appears to have added itself to that. And I now appear to have GamePass all the way to next year for £1? I got about 7 months game pass for £1. Anyone else have that happen? lol
It's normal, it's what everyone is happy about here lol (it converts your existing Gold into Ultimate)
Is that after subbing to Ultimate?
Because every other subscription was converted 1:1 if redeemed before subscribing to Ultimate.
Is it some sort of glitch? Surely that can't be the right price.
After I have subbed for GP Ultimate.
I redeemed a trial code and 14-days Gamepass turned into 9 days Ultimate.
It's not a glitch. It states right before you do that it will convert your existing membership into Ultimate for $1 since you already paid for your previous membership.
Wow, what a deal that is. MS must be feeling generous today lol
Yeah, that's "normal" in that once you're enrolled into Ultimate, they actually convert months at a money ratio.
The actually great deal happens when you first enroll, as it uses an indiscriminate conversion rate.
I feel like we should make an explicit step-by-step / FAQ so people don't miss on this if they're interested in it.
Just realised I had another three month Game Pass code I got for half price which I've now used to top myself up even longer. I'm good till the beginning of 2021 now lol. Microsoft must be taking some hefty losses on all this.
Should be in the OP really.
People who want Ultimate for as long as possible should know to stack up Gold subscriptions to the max allowed before using the $1 deal
Okay, so I have:
XBL until 02/2020
GP until 02/2020
Is it better to try to find a cheap 12 mo XBL card and then convert or just convert now?
EDIT: From what I'm reading since the ratio seems to be better during conversion you want to get as close to the max 36 months as possible to get the most of this deal.
XBL until 02/2020
GP until 02/2020
Is it better to try to find a cheap 12 mo XBL card and then convert or just convert now?
EDIT: From what I'm reading since the ratio seems to be better during conversion you want to get as close to the max 36 months as possible to get the most of this deal.
It was discussed in the Dashboard beta thread, but, now that there's tons of people doing this, can anyone confirm/deny that the Xbox Live membership year badge doesn't get reset when converting? I do not want to lose that badge, as superficial as that sounds; I've been a Live member since Beta eons ago and I'm rather attached to it.
I still have my 16 year badge mateIt was discussed in the Dashboard beta thread, but, now that there's tons of people doing this, can anyone confirm/deny that the Xbox Live membership year badge doesn't get reset when converting? I do not want to lose that badge, as superficial as that sounds; I've been a Live member since Beta eons ago and I'm rather attached to it.
According to the FAQ here, I think you would basically get 1 year of Ultimate because it adds the two subscriptions together
EDIT: Yeah, if you want to get the most "bang for your buck" and know you'll use this for a long time. Then you want to get as close to June 2022 as possible. That's what I did by buying an extra year of basic xbox gold and then converting it to Ultimate.
You have to realize that only most of the hardcore are doing this. Its basically free advertisement. Casuals won't figure that kinda stuff out.
They basically just want more people on GamePass for as long as possible to spread the image that its popular/successful, thus getting more people to talk about it/sub.
Correct, get to 36 months as cheaply as possible then convert.
it seems I only got it for a month? how do i stack it now? should I cancel get a refund and try again?
So I used some reward points to push my Gold sub further so I could add on top of what I had and now after $1.00 I'm good into 2022 with Ultimate. Hell of a deal. Especially considering I've been using rewards points for Gold and those $1.00 promotions with Game Pass for a while. It's like I haven't had to pay for either in a while and it's getting better. Amazing stuff.
Great, thanks for the confirmation. Now where is the cheapest XBL 12 mo card? lol
sounds like it starts doing a conversion you would expect. like you'd get 2 months ulti
Thats not bad when there is a great regular gamepass deal going on. Wich happens alot. More then Gold.
agreed. i imagine they can't sustain all these sales on gamepass though, i wonder if they're just tryin to hit a certain threshold of subs then lock the price down.
3 months into 2 is much better than if you do 12 months. That only gives you 4 months ultimate.
I have to imagine that a fair few people go for the $1 for a month offers like this, and if they're someone who like me already had other subs, the fact that it automatically changes all your entire subs to GP Ultimate (even if you only had XBL Gold) is something that I'd guess even non hardcore players may have been fortunate enough to get in on. The HotUKDeals link on the deal has a thousand heat too.