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So for those of you that renewed Pro membership with an active membership, what could you spend the first $5 cert on the receipt on? I saw it wasnt usable on pre-owned until spring 2020 and didn't work on a GS GC, but are gaming gift cards allowed ($5 eshop?) or just full priced non-sale merch or new games?

I'm using the mobile site right now, and right under the price are two Check Store Inventory buttons - but I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if it's not showing up for you. Their website is donkeyshit after all.

Gotta think Phil just announced Control too early. I actually have this vague memory of it being talked about as a Game Pass title way back when it was shown/announced at the Xbox E3 press conference. Does anyone else remember that, or am I (possibly) psychic?

So the 12 month gold = 4 Month ultimate = 29000 reward points? How easy/hard is it to earn 29000 points every 4 month in rewards?

3 months of Game Pass (2 months of Ultimate) is 17000, which I realize now is more x2 than the year of Gold for 4 months (34,000 vs 29,000), though they often have "hot deals" on Game Pass and Gold, so you may be able to choose which one to buy based on the deal, your status, and amount of points. I'd imagine they will add GP Ultimate subscription codes as rewards at some point. It will be more than the current GP and Gold rewards, but the lack of conversion rate might work out better.

I understand why so many people are buying Gold and GP codes before converting to Ultimate, but I'm fine with the Ultimate subscription I have until October 2020 with codes I'd already banked from Bing points. I haven't spent real money on Gold or GP in years thanks to MS Rewards, and I'm pretty sure I'll be able to continue using points alone to "pay" for Ultimate. Especially since I have a year and a half to bank more points.

My Amazon order of Kingdom Hearts 3 from January 25, 2015 is scheduled to be delivered January 29, 2019. A 4 year preorder! It was $41, I’m surprised they never cancelled it on me.

Last week was my last week of GCU, so I pre-ordered more games at Best Buy than I was planning to. Ended up ordering KH3 even though I've never played the others. We went as a family to Disney World in December, and my daughters are super into all things Disney so I figured if nothing else they would enjoy seeing some of their favorite characters... um, have their hearts ripped out or whatever? I've read several KH summaries and I *think* I know enough to play the third one. Famous last words.

Evil Within 2 should be $12 on the Microsoft Store website last I checked if that at all helps you make a decision.

Kick it off easy,

 

like this post for a chance to win the $5.00 Lego game of your choice!

 

 

on a side note

I fucking hate the holidays........ESPECIALLY thanksgiving and black friday :/

The older I get the more the holidays sneak up on me. If I didn't have to buy ingredients for green bean casserole I doubt I'd even remember it was Thanksgiving until someone turned the parade on Thursday morning.

Thanks for the contest!

For Honor code :

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Lurked, but thanks for doing this!

Edit: OOPS! Not lurked at all. I am ashamed to have thought so little of my fellow CAGs.

Nier is on sale?

Ladies and gentleman.

I have been going through a lot. My wife is going to serve me divorce papers after 12 years. You know what that means, right? She is gonna either get this xbox or many other things. BUT SHE WILL NEVER TAKE AWAY MY GIVEAWAYS!


LIKE MY POST FOR A CHANCE TO WIN NieR:Automata™

Winner will be drawn randomly soon ™

Whelp we got a real humdinger of a give away this week!

 

Thanks to echotech83 (who is celebrating his moms recovery! I'm very happy for you Drop him a kind word!) we have.......

 

HELLBLADE : SENUA's SACRIFICE!

 

As always like this post to be entered for your chance to win.

 

Thaks again echotech!

 

and remember a little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference 

Wow. Helluva giveaway. Thanks for the chance. And all the best to echotech and his mom. Love this community.

Like this post to enter a drawing for a code for I, Hope. 2 codes will be given away, winners will be drawn Friday evening.

The codes will be from using Microsoft's "Buy as Gift" option on the marketplace, so I will need an email address to send it (maybe a tag will work from the console), and according to MS's terms, it can only be redeemed on a US account.

Giveaway time!

Tomorrow is the 60th running of the NASCAR season-opening Daytona 500, and that gives me an opportunity to give this thread some much-needed positivity in the form of a giveaway.

Rules | Prizes:

Spoiler

RULES:

To enter, be one of the first 40 CAGs to LIKE this post. This allows the most fair method of selecting members who will partake in the giveaway. I will use the timestamps to determine who entered first.

The 40 entrants will be assigned to a racer in tomorrow's Daytona 500. The assigned racer's performance in the race will dictate which CAGs are the winners of the giveaway. in other words, just click LIKE and hope your racer wins.

PRIZES:

**1** The CAG who's assigned to the winner of the Daytona 500 will receive a game off the Xbox marketplace valued at $14.99 or lower. I will add that person to my friends list and gift the game of your choice. It doesn't have to be immediately either so if you prefer to wait for a sale, I'm okay with waiting as long as you'd like. Just realize the longer you wait, the increased chance I die or get kidnapped or something.

**2** The CAG whose racer finishes runner-up in the race will receive their choice of either a $5 Xbox gift card or a 1 Month Xbox Live code.

**3**The CAG whose racer finishes last place among all racers who complete all 200 laps will receive the leftover from prize #2 above. This means if your racer crashes or falls off the lead lap, they don't count. The racer must finish all 200 laps at a slower time than the rest.

*NOTE: If you have an account that's only like a week old and/or have fewer than 10 posts, I'm probably going to skip you. I want this to be for active CAGs more than lurkers/dupe accounts.

I'll make another post later with the entrants/racers.