Xbox Game Pass Ultimate $1 only !

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Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is only $1

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/xbox-game-pass-ultimate/cfq7ttc0khs0

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is a new subscription option that gives you Live Gold and Game Pass for one monthly fee.  With this deal, you will get the first month of Ultimate for $1, plus it will convert any remaining months you have on your existing subscriptions to Ultimate (up to a maximum of 36 months/3 years).

For example, you currently have 6 months of Live Gold.  Sign up with this deal and get 7 months of Ultimate ($1 for first month, 6 months of Live Gold converts to 6 months of Ultimate).

Second example: you have 9 months of Xbox Live Gold left and you have 6 months of GP left.  First month for $1 + 9 months + 6 months = 16 months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate.

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Additional tips below.

Once subscribed/converted to Ultimate, if you go to the Xbox website, you can turn off recurring payments if you don't want to pay $15 after your sub ends.

Potential way to maximize your $:  The longest possible Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription is 3 years.  If you can find Xbox Live Gold or Game Pass deals for cheap, buy enough so the total of those plus your current remaining months
 
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Holy cow I almost went right past this post, not noticing it was Game Pass ULTIMATE. Your math is correct and this is amazing! I had two months left on my $1 Game Pass trial, but I had nearly two years remaining on Live Gold since I stocked up during a recent discount. I'm now a Game Pass Ultimate subscriber through July 2021. Thank you!
 
Lumas101 said:
Holy cow I almost went right past this post, not noticing it was Game Pass ULTIMATE. Your math is correct and this is amazing! I had two months left on my $1 Game Pass trial, but I had nearly two years remaining on Live Gold since I stocked up during a recent discount. I'm now a Game Pass Ultimate subscriber through July 2021. Thank you!
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In hindsight, I probably should've put Ultimate in all caps. Haha. I'm good for a full 3 years. What a crazy deal.

 
I have mixed feelings about Game Pass Ultimate. This is a good deal but I'm worried about how much it will cost in the future. $40/year for Gold is reasonable ... If GPU turns out to be $120/year I might balk.
 
I am confused...My gold runs out this month and I do not have gamepass. What's the best way to take advantage of this for long term?
 
So this isn't a deal that you can just stack up on, basically it's a way to get long term ultimate by combining the time of your gamepass and gold which equals out to the length of time you have on ultimate. I did this and basically just added a month to my current subscription since I only had Gamepass through August so now I have gamepass and gold till September.  Didn't work out for me as it stands but it's something that can probably work out a deal for.

 
Wow. Thanks OP. Gotd was good til 1/2020, had a month and a half left on that 3 months GP for a dollar, finally redeemed two 3 month GP codes I’d gotten from Bing rewards. Add $1, and I’m set with Ultimate until October 2020!

Honestly, anyone who pays anything close to full price for Gold or GP (GP especially) is doing it wrong.
 
So I have ~2 years remaining on my Gold but do not have Gamepass. If I get this Ultimate Pass, will I have both Gold and Gamepass for ~2 years?

 
I have about 2 years of Gold left and 6 months of GamePass. This sounds like a no brainer or am I misunderstanding?
 
ARsignal11 said:
So I have ~2 years remaining on my Gold but do not have Gamepass. If I get this Ultimate Pass, will I have both Gold and Gamepass for ~2 years?
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I just did it. My XBL expired in November 2021. Just upgraded for $1. No Gamepass needed. I didn't qualify for the $1 gamepass trial as i had done it before. Now I have Ultimate to December 2021.

 
ARsignal11 said:
So I have ~2 years remaining on my Gold but do not have Gamepass. If I get this Ultimate Pass, will I have both Gold and Gamepass for ~2 years?
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one or the other gives you both. They are combining them together to make ultimate

oscargrouch said:
so you have to be a Game Pass and Gold member first before you can convert to ultimate? Or just a Gold member?
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no just one for instance I have 2 years of gold and 1 year of game pass it adds up to the max of 36months. Basically if you can find either for cheap add that to your account then it will turn into ultimate DO NOT SIGN UP for ultimate until you have maxed it out otherwise I do not think you can just use a Gold or gamepass sub to add to ultimate

 
oscargrouch said:
I just did it. My XBL expired in November 2021. Just upgraded for $1. No Gamepass needed. I didn't qualify for the $1 gamepass trial as i had done it before. Now I have Ultimate to December 2021.
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Sweet! Thanks for the confirmation.

Edit: Just did it myself and it worked just as you confirmed. Have Gold and Gameplass now for ~2 years. Pretty cool.

Now my next question is when I get enough Bing points to redeem for a 12-month Xbox Live membership in the next half year, will that automatically add 12 months to my Xbox Game Pass Ultimate sub? Or will that just separately add only to Xbox Gold? Or will it prevent me from even redeeming it since I have the Ultimate sub and not just the Gold sub?

 
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Small point in the frenzy, but the actual math is, months of Gold remaining + months GP remaining + 1 (the month of Ultimate you get for the dollar).
 
I don't play xbox too often anymore, recently got the three months of gamepass for void bastards and outer wilds. Wondered why no one has linked the best deal for a year of gold? 

I know PSN is $40 a year for the E3 deals, I think I might try to find a similar deal for Xbox live gold and grab a year or two then add this. 

 
I maximized my xbox live gold using some old codes and microsoft rewards codes to get it out to 6/3/2022. I had gamepass until 7/9/2019. I did the upgrade and now I have Ultimate until 6/9/2022!
 
Octob3rNotic3 said:
I don't play xbox too often anymore, recently got the three months of gamepass for void bastards and outer wilds. Wondered why no one has linked the best deal for a year of gold?

I know PSN is $40 a year for the E3 deals, I think I might try to find a similar deal for Xbox live gold and grab a year or two then add this.
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Best deal I could find right now is 12 months of gold on cdkeys for $48. I just bought a year and with my existing gold and game pass I have ultimate til Jan. 2021.
 
I got in on the beta deal where it converted my gold and game pass into ultimate. Can I add more time now? What happens if I buy another gold and add it?
 
Wow that worked out great! Got almost right at 3 years with my current Gold sub running through Feb 2022, having a little under 2 months left on my current GP and the additional month put it at about 2 weeks shy of 3 years. Thanks for the heads up OP; I had no idea about this! Well, now I don't feel as pressured to play GP games all the time to get my "money's worth" (my full $1 for 3 months worth, lol).

 
Great deal! I had Gold until August 2021, and just redeemed a 2 month free trial I never used from when I got my One X Scorpio, so now I’m locked into Ultimate until 11/2021. Awesome!
 
letskissthesky said:
Best deal I could find right now is 12 months of gold on cdkeys for $48. I just bought a year and with my existing gold and game pass I have ultimate til Jan. 2021.
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You could have gotten it in the trading forums here for around $40. A few have sold for as low as $35. I'm selling a year myself for $40, so if anyone needs one, get them now. You don't want to join the masses looking for deals later this afternoon when Ultimate is formally announced.

elitewillie said:
I got in on the beta deal where it converted my gold and game pass into ultimate. Can I add more time now? What happens if I buy another gold and add it?
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People on Reddit are saying that you'll able to add more time now and it'll convert based on the value of the code. For example, a month of Game Pass will convert to 20 days of Ultimate.
 
ARsignal11 said:
Sweet! Thanks for the confirmation.

Edit: Just did it myself and it worked just as you confirmed. Have Gold and Gameplass now for ~2 years. Pretty cool.

Now my next question is when I get enough Bing points to redeem for a 12-month Xbox Live membership in the next half year, will that automatically add 12 months to my Xbox Game Pass Ultimate sub? Or will that just separately add only to Xbox Gold? Or will it prevent me from even redeeming it since I have the Ultimate sub and not just the Gold sub?
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According to the Reddit post about this, if you add a 3 month xbl subscription it'll convert to a 1 month ultimate. If you add a one month xbl, it'll convert to 20 days. This is after you've done the initial conversion. So I'm guessing a one year xbl gold would turn into 6 months ultimate but that hasn't been tested yet.
 
CaseX said:
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is only $1

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/xbox-game-pass-ultimate/cfq7ttc0khs0

As I understand it, the remaining months on your Xbox Live Gold + remaining months on your current Game Pass subscription will be combined into your Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription.

Example: You have 9 months of Xbox Live Gold left and you have 6 months of GP left. 9 months + 6 months = 15 months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate.

Edit:

Additional tips below.

Once subscribed/converted to Ultimate, if you go to the Xbox website, you can turn off recurring payments if you don't want to pay $15 after your sub ends.

Potential way to maximize your $: The longest possible Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription is 3 years. If you can find Xbox Live Gold or Game Pass deals for cheap, buy enough so the total of those plus your current remaining months <= 36 months. Redeem all those codes, sign up for Ultimate, and get 3 full years of Ultimate.
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Wow ty OP, best deal of the year! Simply extend Xbl Gold for 3 yrs and get Gamepass for that amount of time for $1

 
Thanks a lot to the OP for posting this. Like many others I almost flew right past it but clicked when I noticed Ultimate in the title.

I tend to buy the 3 month cards for $10 around each Black Friday. It's nice because it makes a 1 year subscription $40, but also gives me the flexibility of waiting to renew if the Games with Gold for that month are trash.

I bought like 11 in 2017 and after redeeming as many as I could I still have one left.

PM me if you' like it for $10. The other nice thing about these cards is that Microsoft will add an additional month for free if you just turn on recurring billing.

Good luck to those looking for cheaps subs and congrats to all who have been able to capitalize on this deal!
 
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Thanks for the heads up, that’s a heck of a deal considering I bought both of my subs at hefty discounts, good through May 2021 now!
 
I don't have gold right now, but I have the $1 game pass trial from a month or so ago.  If I convert that to Ultimate for $1, would I be able to buy some XBL Gold codes in a month or two to keep that extended?

 
My gold was set to expire Aug 3rd and my gamepass in January 2020. I’m now good on both until April.

Ended with 3 extra months of GP & 8 months of Live. Thanks op
 
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I see that after you upgrade to Ultimate that you're locked in and any additional regular Xbox Live Gold subs are added at a conversion ratio of 3 to 2, but can we just go back to regular Gold if we let the sub run out completely before adding more Gold? I get how the process works when you join initially, but I want to be super clear on whether you can go back to normal Gold afterward.

 
My Live lapsed earlier this month, but thanks to the OP, whitereflection, and Bing points, I have Ultimate through October 2021 now! Really nice deal 👍🏼
 
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I usually wait on better deals for live, but not gonna pass on this.  I got 21 more months of live (10% off on the year with best buys birthday discount).  That'll put me at 34 months stacked.

Edit: Xbox is still giving a free month each time you turn on recurring billing.  That put me to 33 months and now have a 3 month card I can't redeem. Doh!

Good until 05/2022!

 
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Thanks, this made me go ahead and use a 12 mo. sub card I had on hand.  Turned it into 13 months of ultimate for $1.

Does this Game Pass sub also work on pc?  Or is that a separate sub?  TIA.

 
Can anyone tell me if this "conversion" affects the Xbox live "years of service?" I've proudly had XBL Gold since the beta in 2002 and would hate to see it reset (although 3 years for ultimate might be worth it).


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michaelpdelaney said:
Can anyone tell me if this "conversion" affects the Xbox live "years of service?" I've proudly had XBL Gold since the beta in 2002 and would hate to see it reset (although 3 years for ultimate might be worth it).
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I did it and I still have 15 years of service. You should be good.
 
Thank you so much OP! I couldn’t have been in a better spot to maximize this. I had 24ish months of Gold left and 9ish months of GamePass left. I was expecting 34 or 35 months of Ultimate and ended with 36 months exact!! This is saving me almost $300 (retail) over the next 3yrs!
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