PSA - Xbox gamepass Ultimate hack... part 2

Nice!

Awesome thanks Doctor P I will be doing shortly.

I don't suppose you know how to sort out the issues with COD and missing packs that have been installed.

On CD Keys did you go for this option 12 MONTH XBOX LIVE GOLD MEMBERSHIP - (EU) or this 12 MONTH XBOX LIVE GOLD MEMBERSHIP (XBOX ONE/360)?

You need the EU keys for both gold and GPU...

I don’t suppose you know how to sort out the issues with COD and missing packs that have been installed.

No -it's really annoying still.
I recently got an XB Series X (whoop) and thus reinstalled all the big games I wanted, incliuding COD. I hoped this would sort out the missing packs...but still getting the error!!
FFS

DrP

ooh have to try this as mine just ran out. I don't use it much so can't justify the normal monthly fee

DRp we could be the same person done the same with my new X series.

Just one last question with hack do I need to wait for my current subscription to finish?

Fantastic, thanks!

Just one last question with hack do I need to wait for my current subscription to finish?

Would also be interested to know if I can add time my current Live Gold membership and then upgrade to GPU?

I was using the £1 GPU offer, still with 15 days to go.

In order to get this 'hack' to work I had to cancel that subscription, then load up on 12 month Live Gold subscriptions (it can take up to three, apparently), then put in the code for 1 month GPU.

When I tried to add Gold months on before cancelling my GPU sub it was converting them to 4 months of GPU for every 12 of Gold I'd purchased.

On CDKeys it says that the GPU month pass is for Xbox One, it has worked (I think!) on our Series X.

This will keep Jr Slimeranching happily for the medium term!

Would also be interested to know if I can add time my current Live Gold membership and then upgrade to GPU?

I believe that as long as it's JUST gold you have, then add to it (up to max 36 months)...
Once you've maxed out your GOLD membership, 'upgrade' that to GPU with the one month pass...
This converts all existing gold to GPU at a 1:1 ratio.

I waited for EVERYTHING to run out..had a morning of "dad...I can't play online..!!!", and started it all again!

DrP

Yeah I've only got Live gold at the moment after going through a nightmare trying to cancel GPU so it wouldn't convert live gold time into GPU at 12 to 4 months as above! Right pain in the arse it was, but I'm a ludite this is all for my lad!

Might try and add a couple of years live gold to my existing that runs until December and then add a GPU 1 month trial.

12 months live gold is £34.99 on cdkeys at the moment.

@markie > To get this ‘hack’ to work I had to cancel that subscription

How did you do that? I'm in the same position as you with current subscription having a few weeks left.

Boom! It worked, GPU until Jan 24 for £79!!

Cheers @DrP.

@sl2000

I logged on to my Microsoft account on my PC and went to something like 'manage all services and subscriptions', and by my XBox subscription was an option 'Manage'. In there was a choice 'Cancel subscription'.

I then entered the codes I got from CDKeys into the PC Xbox app.

HTH.

12 months live gold is £34.99 on cdkeys at the moment.

Yet it was £39.99 yesterday!! Arses...would have saved another £15..oh wellz....

Glad it's working for you all!

DrP

Thanks Markie - but not working for me.

I cancelled my recurring billing then tried to cancel the subscription now but I can't. Tried...

- Opened https://account.microsoft.com/ and logged in

- 'Services and Subscriptions' from top nav - https://account.microsoft.com/services/

- 'Manage' by Xbox Game Pass Ultimate - https://account.microsoft.com/services/xboxgamepassultimate/billing

- 'Cancel subscription' - https://account.microsoft.com/services/xboxgamepassultimate/cancel?cancelType=NotDefined&fref=billing-cancel

- 'Cancel subscription' again.

Gives an error:

We can’t cancel your subscription

You've already paid for your Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription. It will expire automatically on 09/05/2021.

Sorry 🙁

I am brand new to all this, but as a thought, my sub was a monthly billing one - was yours bought using a code?

When I entered my codes (for Live Gold) it made a point of saying they were non refundable.

Maybe you need to wait until this sub expires then do the trick to get the next three years?

DR P my GPU subscription has run out so just to check I need to by 12 Live Gold Subs maximum x 3, then by 1 month Ultimate upgrade which should hopefully give 3 years am i missing something?

Thanks

Does this still work? Anyone tried it recently?

Typically, my three years of Ultimate runs out like a month after my Series arrives.

I can't see why it wouldn't work....

But yeah, the order is...

Start with nothing.

But 36 months of gold.

But one month x box ultimate...

Do that fortnight dance in the street to boast how oresum you are

DrP

Cougar
Does this still work? Anyone tried it recently?

In answer to my own question,

Yes it does.

After the expiry of my previous sub I've just bought three years of Gold plus a month of Ultimate via CDKEYS and boom, I've got a three year Ultimate subscription for ~£120.

Hazzah!

DrP

My previous £1 expired so on the standard payment. Any thoughts if this will work or does it need to go back-to-back in other deal?

Caveat emptor but, I chanced it and it worked.

https://www.cdkeys.com/xbox-live/1-month-xbox-game-pass-ultimate-xbox-one-pc-eu

"3. Do you still have Xbox Live Gold or Game Pass prepaid time? When you upgrade to Ultimate, that time will be automatically applied."

All my previous subs had run out. I bought 3x 12 month Gold passes at £38.99 and the 1 month Ultimate for £8.99 as above. That gave me four 25-digit codes. I entered the first three (it's under Store / Redeem this week) to get three years' worth of Gold, then the Ultimate code which converted the lot. All four codes are unrelated to each other as far as I can tell, it's no different from buying a handful of gift cards from Game.

Curiously, it's Ultimated me up until January 2025, which is three years and two months. It makes sense that my 1 month Ultimate code is in addition to the existing sub, but I seem to have gained another bonus month from somewhere?

Regardless, 38 months of Ultimate for £125.96 or £3.31/month, regular RRP £418.

Caveat emptor but, I chanced it and it worked.

Thanks Cougar, my Ultimate acquired by the hack's just run out so this might come in handy.

That's if I can rustle up the £125.96...

Of course, you don't need the three years, you could do it on a three month code. That's just (AFAIK) the maximum you can convert. I maxed it out in case the offer disappears.

i maxed out to the 3 years as well, as otherwise you'll need to pay the £8.99 for GPU each time...
So whatever you do, it's (the amount of gold you buy)+£8.99 each time.

Glad it's working for all!

DrP

I can confirm also works think it cost around 136 in total using Eneba best hack ever.

My son has an offer to get a 1 Month GPU for £1 rather than £10.99. If I buy 3 year Gold beforehand, that should still work, right?

Any idea if it works with the VPN hack? CD Keys has Turkish 12 months Gold for £24.99? Could get 3 of those for £75 + the £1 GPU is very cheap.

Of course, you don’t need the three years, you could do it on a three month code.

Crazy talk!

@DrP thanks for this. Just saved me £270! Just off to buy something for my bike guilt free...

My son has an offer to get a 1 Month GPU for £1 rather than £10.99. If I buy 3 year Gold beforehand, that should still work, right?

Any idea if it works with the VPN hack? CD Keys has Turkish 12 months Gold for £24.99? Could get 3 of those for £75 + the £1 GPU is very cheap.

I would guess yes and yes, so long as any prior subs have expired. My understanding is that once it's activated (via VPN or however), it's activated. But as I said earlier, buyer beware. I rolled the dice on £120 and it worked, I wasn't brave enough to stray outside of EU codes (though Gold should be Gold) and at three quid a month I'm not screaming too loudly.

Where'd you / he get that £1 offer?

I'm kinda coming to the notion at this point that MS are just wanting people on the programme a la Windows 10 and don't really care about the sub. Ultimate is getting better every day and Gold is becoming increasingly obtuse.

@Cougar, I've just renewed & upgraded to GPU using the EU code. The Brazil 12 month Gold membership wasn't available. He got the £1 GPU upgrade offer from Microsoft by email.
Great PSA & currently still working, thanks.

Nice, thanks for the feedback. I suspect that this is going to go like the Windows 10 upgrade, it's an exercise in MS getting shot of legacy crap.

("obsolete" I meant back there, not obtuse 🙄)

Curious to know if I could start this on Xbox one and then at some point in the future port across to the X? Does your subscription work across any Xbox version or even two at the same time?

It is for your account, not a particular console. I did it on a PC before I got my xbox s.

kirky - as above..

As long as you use the same account across WHATEVER machine, it'll work..

DrP

Anyone know if you can do this before your current subscription expires? My GPU subscription expires on 4th April and I was just trying to get ahead of the game (pun intended!!).

You can buy the codes ahead of time. I wouldn't risk applying them until your existing sub runs out.

The upgrade converts "existing Gold" up to three years. If you have an existing Ultimate sub then who knows what will happen. It might work. 🤷‍♂️ Why chance it?

I’ll wait till it expires then. Ta. 👍

I mean, try it and let us know? (-:

If you apply a Gold code to a running Game Pass Ultimate then it will extend the GPU but only by a portion of the length of the Gold code. eg 1 year -> 4 months or something (I don't recall the exact conversion). So definitely best to wait.

So I bought 3 years of Gold for £109 and a 1 month GPU subscription for £7.99. I did notice however that if you click the "upgrade" button on the Microsoft website it offers you 1 month for £1. I had already bought the 7.99 one so I don't know if it would have the same effect (ie upgrading the whole lot). The one month GPU key did upgrade the whole lot though for sure so 3 years GPU for  about £120. Not bad. 🙂

Probably worth trying the £1 offer if you are about to buy....

the £1 offer only works once for each account...
Most of us have used it already, hence this is 'part 2'!
But of you haven't used it, then it'll do exactly the same... upgrade ALL gold to GPU!

Glad to see people are still benefitting from this..
I jsut did the same for my OH's lad last weekend...3 years GPU for £118!

DrP

So mine has all expired, Gold and Game pass. A google suggests you can do the following, not as good as before as you only end up with 2 years of cheaper Game pass. Has anyone tried it recently?

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To get the discount, just follow these steps:

Buy 11 x 3-month Xbox Live Gold membership codes at £7.99 for a total of £87.89 from discount digital games retailer, CDKeys. By stacking these up, you’re unlocking 33 months of Gold.
Now, purchase one month of Game Pass Ultimate for £7.99 from CDKeys so that you can upgrade.
New members can get it for even cheaper with the 1-month trial offer for £1 available on the Game Pass website.
Activate your membership by entering the codes online or on your Xbox.
Make sure to turn off recurring billing on your Microsoft account page, so that you’re not charged when the time period expires.
All told, you should now have access to 23-months of Game Pass Ultimate at the current conversion rate for a grand total of £95.88 - or £4.17 per month.

It’s important to note that this method will only work if you don’t already have an active Ultimate subscription"

I think it still works but you only get 2/3 of the duration now. I last did it a couple of months ago before they made that change.

I bought 4x 3 month xbox live keys, redeemed these (it offered me +1 month free for turning on recurring billing for each one).

I then bought 1 month game pass and used it to convert the time before turning off recurring billing again.

17 months total for about £40.

Thanks will give it a try

Get a move on if you are thinking about this - Gold disappears in september and you'll be automatically switched to a 'Core' version of gamepass - access to a selection of 25 games.  dont know if any of the 'hacks' will work thereafter.

I tend to play PUBG mostly which is free to play online, so have let my Gold lapse.  been looking forward to Starfield and am tempted to hit gamepass for a month and try it before paying almost £70 for the standard version.

I wonder what would happen if you bought a Gold serial from CDKeys / EF now and then tried to apply them after it'd been retired? Is there a grace period perhaps?

am tempted to hit gamepass for a month and try it before paying almost £70 for the standard version.

£70 for one game vs twice that for access to hundreds for three years seems something of a no-brainer to me unless you're planning on getting 18 months out of Starfield.

£70 for one game vs twice that for access to hundreds for three years seems something of a no-brainer to me unless you’re planning on getting 18 months out of Starfield.

That's the thing, it's how they lock you in. I'm looking to downgrade as I really don't think I'm getting my moneys worth, if Gold is ending then that's probably the shove I need.

Thread resurrection - just jumped through the hoops for my son. 3 x 12 month Core Gamepass keys from CDKeys, then 1 month Ultimate has resulted in 25 months of Ultimate for about £100. £275 saved so not bad.

(Did also buy a supposed 12 month India core key from CJS keys which turned out to be a 6 month which spoiled the numbers a bit - had they turned out to be legit then it would have been 25 months for about £70.)

You've reminded me, I should buy a key....

So, how does this work again?

So, how does this work again?

Cancel your subscription, wait a day or so. (The wait is probably unecessary IMO, I think the key is to have no active subscription, but we did it).

Buy three of these 12 month Core subscriptions. <b><u> https://www.cdkeys.com/xbox-live/xbox-game-pass-core-12-month-membership-ww</u></b>

Apply them all, ('stack them'). You should now have 3 years Core for 3 x 33 at the rates when I linked.

Buy 1 month Ultimate eg  https://www.cdkeys.com/xbox-live/1-month-xbox-game-pass-ultimate-xbox-one-pc . Apply it. It converts your Core to Ultimate at a 2/3 rate. You should end up with 2 yrs Ultimate plus the 1 month you bought. About £108 total in fact.

You can (in theory) make it cheaper by buying 12 month Indian Core passes and applying them while connected to India via a VPN. This did work apart from the problem that the 12 month key from CJS turned out to be a 6 month. There are apparently some other variations to get the 1 month Ultimate which then converts the Core, but the above method worked for us.

Careful with CDKeys. I used them for years without issue until one day they sent me an already used code and were complete chunts about it. I had to get confirmation from Microsoft that the code has been redeemed prior to me purchasing it, which I did however CDKeys then stopped replying. Had to do a chargeback in the end.

I buy my codes from Shopto.net now, or eBay.

Timely bump, mine runs out next month.  I was wondering whether this still worked.

Is there anyway to have multiple Xboxes in the same house using the same gamepass?

I’ve always been a PS person but both boys have Xboxes and I struggled to get them set up without lots of sweary words!

Set the other box to be the Home console.

Thank you @Branes

Set the other box to be the Home console.

To expand on this...

-Activate the Game Pass subscription on child A's Xbox

-Add child A's account to child B's Xbox

-Whilst logged into child B's Xbox as child A, go into Settings > Personalisation > Make this my Home Xbox

-Add child B's Xbox to child A's Xbox and do the reverse of the above steps

This way any purchases or subscriptions made on either account will be shared with both of them.

Note that this only works between two consoles though, and you can only change Home console 5 times a year. Microsoft were meant to bringing out a Game Pass Family plan but I'm not sure what's happening with that.

Also...

For additional convenience, change the log-in settings on each child's console so their controllers sign them in automatically. Saves choosing an account when turning the consoles on.

Finally, depending on their age the Xbox Family Settings app (Android/iOS) is pretty handy too. Means you can set screentime limits and have it so you have to approve any purchases or age restricted content.

My 3 years from the previous hack comes to the end tomorrow. Are the previously mention methods to get a 2 year deal still working or is there another work round?

Bump

I think so. I did 12months for 8 a while back to test it and it worked. worked out just over £30 buying the codes from cdkeys

@jam-bo which game passes did you purchase to make it work.

12 months of core and then 1 month of ultimate I think. gave me 8 months of ultimate.

I've just done this.  3 months Core at £33.39 each, 1 month Ultimate at £7.99.  5.55% cashback via TCB = ~ £104.  This converted 36m core to only 20m Ultimate.

It's still cheap at £5 a month, but not as good as it used to be

I’ve just done this.  3 months Core at £33.39 each, 1 month Ultimate at £7.99.  5.55% cashback via TCB = ~ £104.  This converted 36m core to only 20m Ultimate.

I'm guessing you mean 3 years Core rather than months, I don't get what the TCB bit means though - are you not just getting 5.55% on the £108.16 spend giving you £6 back?

Yes -  3 years core and yes,  5.55% cashback via Top Cash Back.

It works with Gold too (while stocks last). I did it a couple of months back, £104 for two years. I completely forgot about TCB though.

I completely forgot about TCB though.

It's a useful reminder from Daffy, I often overlook it and 5.55% on £108 makes it well worth routing the purchase via the cashback app.

@Daffy  Did you buy the European code , UK or some other from CDkeys?  Europe showing as £33.30, Uk £36.44

I bought:

12 Month Xbox Live Gold Membership - (EU & UK) x3 = £95.97
1 Month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Xbox One / PC x1 = £8.99

I would be a little bit careful in that some codes apparently aren't upgradable. You can save a few quid with foreign codes if you have a VPN up at the point of activation (you don't need it afterwards) but in both cases the risk vs reward wasn't worth it for me. Sub- ten quid a month for 2 years of Ultimate is a steal without fretting about pence.

@Cougar2 , where did you purchase your passes from ? Cdkeys?

Yup.

I've used Electronic First historically, it's worth comparing both.

Anyone know if this is still available? Mine runs out next week and it was three years ago that I did it so I’ve forgotten what to do.. 🙄 Do I need to let it expire and then buy new?

What are the steps to get Xbox Live Gold and Gamepass Ultimate for three years? 

Read up the page.  It's not quite the deal it once was, three years of Gold / Core converts to two years of Ultimate.  That's still considerably cheaper than just buying Ultimate directly though.

You need to let any existing subscriptions expire first.  Check that you haven't got auto-renew enabled.

Thanks. Does it matter where you buy it from? 

Pah - I only got 18 months ultimate by adding a month of ultimate onto a 3 year core subscription . My Ultimate ends November 2026 against 3 years of core which originally ended in April 2028.

Does that mean I can add another month in November 26 or can I add another month now? 

Ok. Another subscription adding £££%%% per month! Hoping some genius will give the secrets to getting the max ultimate before the price increase. My ultimate expires early November 25. 🧐  

Mine runs out on Saturday so just bought a 3 month Ultimate code from Shopto for £33. I'm sure there will still be ways to get it cheaper than direct from MS going forward, although even at £22 p/m I'd still get my moneys worth out of it.