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#290558 19-Nov-2021 14:56

So, my subscription expires June 2022

about 2.5 years ago, they were doing this really cool thing, where if you bought games with gold, then you paid $1 total and they would upgrade that membership to Game Pass Ultimate for the time you had Games with Gold.

I am assuming, I won't be able to do the same again, and that I am stuck with $20 a month from June? I mean it's reasonable value, but always keen to get a good deal.

I assume I can't extend my current offer somehow? Does anyone know what would happen if I bought Xbox Network for a year and applied to my account now?

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#2815775 19-Nov-2021 15:31

Hehe. I am also on the $1/month deal expiring June 2022. A AIK, if you just bought the 12month Live Gold subscription now and wanted it to convert it as Ultimate subscription, you do get that credit but at lower rate. Xbox did publish a conversion rate somewhere on their website. I would wait until June 2022 and see what's available at that stage as the $1/month very well might be available again once current subscription expires.

Do whatever you want to do man.

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#2815777 19-Nov-2021 15:34

To be fair, it was probably the deal of a lifetime, and I can't them feeling incentivised to do the same again, but I guess I'll keep an eye out.

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#2815782 19-Nov-2021 16:14

No I don't think you can extend. Mine is due to expire in Feb 2022 and then I'm going to get 3y of gold from brazil or somewhere cheap and use a VPN to apply it. I believe you can then still upgrade it to game pass ultimate for $20 rather than the $1 as you've used the cheap approach already.. .that is unless MS remove gold prior to that point in which case its brazil ultimate cards as it think it worked out 1/3 of the price of a full year in NZ dollars.

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#2815882 19-Nov-2021 19:10

AFAIK it still works, you can convert up to a max of three years. The trick is to let your current subscription expire, otherwise MS will apply the published conversion rates. There is a reddit thread that describes the process in detail.

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#2815896 19-Nov-2021 20:17

dmatthew:

AFAIK it still works, you can convert up to a max of three years. The trick is to let your current subscription expire, otherwise MS will apply the published conversion rates. There is a reddit thread that describes the process in detail.

this is good info to have. thanks!