Oh crap wish I had seen this first! Anyway, I ordered the Target deal. I don't even need it - just planning to top off my 2 1/2 years with it. But I still don't have the code. The Nintendo online membership codes came almost instantly from Target.
I grabbed one of the digital codes from Best Buy. Supposedly, GameStop will be selling these three-month cards for $19.99 (limit one) on Black Friday. As much as I despise GameStop, I plan to use my monthly $5 reward from my Pro membership on one more three-month card to get it down to $15. Or at least that's the plan.
Hi there, I got my pro subscription today. Do u have any idea when will the monthly $5 reward be sent? Like in a day or a week?
In most cases, they can find the $5 reward on your account when you go into the store. The $5 rewards can't be used online on digital subscriptions that I'm aware of. Like I said, I avoid GameStop like the plague, so I'm not really sure. But my goal is to get in and out of there on Black Friday without them trying to upsell me something that I don't really need.
I believe that only applies to purchases on the shop and not prepaid cards though correct? I'm also screwed as I had Origin Access renew (forgot to cancel in time) for my PC which apparently will not convert.
I was just going by Major Nelson's tweet on this a few months ago as well as XBox Game Pass' twitter post.
This is my wonder too. But will there be any 12 month cards and $1 upgrade in 1-2 years.
Just throwing this out here but I had a hell of a time trying to buy a 1 year EA sub to add to my GPU account through Microsoft. I think there's a bug that won't let the transaction complete if the
I think i did 2 year for ea pass on cdkey and 1 year on xbox store, all converted perfectly
I assumed this wouldn't work once you upgraded the first time. Surely someone out there must have tried this though?
It did for me when I signed up for the first time a few weeks back. Got my 2 1/2 years of Gold converted to GPU.
Eh, perhaps. But I'm not sure I want to hassle with Target over $6. Maybe I'll fire off a quick email to see if they'll do it and leave it at that.
.Nah, they don't do take-backs so the method is to turn it off, add time and turn back on for the extra month ad naseum. Seems to only work for newer subs because I could never replicate that deal anymore on my account through various attempts while adding time nowadays. I'm solid for 3 years though thanks to the EA Play glitch that was fixed.
It's the same promo as turning a year of EA Play into 4 months, only during the eve of that whole conversion process for existing accounts the code redemption themselves were adding an entire year of GPU instead of the four months. Many of us that had sat on adding any time were able to add two years of GPU for basically $2/mo. It was a steal.Explain please?
Does the initial conversion of EA Play turn into a full year, though, or is it done at the lesser rate? Just wondering for my son's account that isn't GPU yet. If so obviously I'd go that way. If not, I can get 3 years of Gold from Costco for $150 which prices out to $4.17 a month for GPU. Still pretty good.
Since your son still has that $1 offer, you'd probably be best to do the Cost Co 2 year offer, along with a ~$60 Gold Subscription card. Right now 3-Months at around $20-25 or more depending on tax makes a year of Game Pass higher than $60 for a year of Gold to Game Pass swap. The same is true with EA Pass' changing to 4 months of Game Pass. So your Cost Co option is keeping you under $180 for 3 years, which these sales likely aren't beating.
Thank you for posting this! The night of the switch over I kept trying to buy a year of EA but it wouldn't add to my account and kept refunding me. I was trying to top up and had like 2 years and 2 months at the time. *This* is why it wouldn't process. It *was* trying to add a year.
When I attempted to apply the 3 month GPU code, it stated that any balance I have for Gold or EA will be converted 1:1. I canceled out of it and didn't actually redeem since there is the potential to add that type of time prior to GPU. I am also waiting for someone to detail the best method to do this.
The idea is to get him the XBox One in a few days and have him playing Game Pass games over the break - so don't want to wait.
I do but, but I already share with my son at home. This other one is out of the house so I just want to get him started on his own membership. From what I gather sharing with him remote would be a pain. He'd have to log into my account all the time, right?
No, it just depends on who you want to share with. The only drawback is if your internet goes out, you can't play your digital games on your non home console. Basically your home console is the one that you don't use. They don't need to login as you to have access to xbox live and all your games.
Hmmm.... Well that would save me $150. I'll have to look into it. I thought you had to log into the profile of the sharing account on each system that was gamesharing.
Ah, no, the younger one has his own Xbox Live account, so I do need to share with him as I currently have it set up. I'll just get my older son his own GPU membership. He's a sophomore in college so if I get him 3 years that will bridge him till he's on his own and then he can deal with it all himself going forward from there
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