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MS is running a promo at the moment where you can get a month's "Ultimate Game Pass" - the Game Pass for Xbox and W10 bundled with XBL Gold - for a quid (and £11 thereafter). However, this promo also converts any existing Gold sub you have to Ultimate, for up to three years.
So, you can pick up a couple of 12-month Gold codes for £40/year from Electronic First / CDkeys / wherever (or for around £32 if you can be arsed setting up a one-time VPN to Brazil to register the codes), add these to your account, then take the promo and boom, two years' worth of Ultimate for £81.
When you take up the offer on the console the wording is slightly misleading in that it warns you you'll be billed at £10.99/month after the first month, but this first month is after your converted Gold expires. On accepting, it came up with my first billing date as some time in 2021. Of course, the first thing you do then is to go into your subs and turn off automatic recurring payments.
Offer ends in a week. Well worth doing IMHO, if you were planning on buying more than one game a year then it's paid for itself.
Thanks, looks useful. I've no interest whatsoever in Gold or Live or whatever but a years worth of Games Pass for £40ish would be handy.
I’ve no interest whatsoever in Gold or Live or whatever
Even if you don't use Gold for online gaming, it nets you two free Xbox One games and two 360 games every month. The 360 titles are yours to keep forever, the One games require an active Gold sub.
Quality is variable (and they're quite canny about dropping titles when an expansion or sequel is imminent) but it's generally worth having just for that. NHL 19 is on there at the minute.
Yeah did this the other day. It also includes game pass on PC which they're currently expanding.
Thanks Cougar, I already had Gold maxed out to 2022, so no brainer 🙂
so i've already got gold... and recently signed up to the game pass (separately)..so this is gold AND game pass (XB1)...
Hmm.. would i need to cancel my game pass, and then just get this promo??
DrP
Go to your account page and there should be a link to upgrade your subscription. I don't think you'll need to cancel anything but you can check what billing you have set up after.