Xbox Game Pass Ultimate €1 upgrade

circadian

Xbox are running another upgrade xbox live to Game Pass Ultimate promotion again.

I paid €12.99 for the upgrade, probably because I've done it before but the website advertises as a €1 upgrade.

You can upgrade up to 36 months worth of Xbox Live. I bought a full 36 months at a key reseller for roughly €145, applied the codes to my account and then upgraded to Game Pass.

You could go to the official route and get 3 years xbox live for €180 if they're still available in store.

If you were to pay for game pass for 3 years it's in the region of €460 so even €180 is a massive saving.

It also includes xcloud access on android devices.

If you already have Game Pass I don't think this will work.

Soarer

So what you’re saying we have to do is extend our Live sub out to 3 years, and then we can get upgraded for €1 for each of the 36 months?

Gadge

Soarer wrote: »

So what you’re saying we have to do is extend our Live sub out to 3 years, and then we can get upgraded for €1 for each of the 36 months?

Normally just a €1 once off. I did the same thing myself last year and it worked no bother.

TrivialArguer

Anyone who already did the 1Euro upgrade manage to do it again?

ShatterProof

If you have ultimate already do not try to purchase Xbox live as it will automatically convert at full price. You have to let your ultimate expire before you can “downgrade” and purchase live again. Then you can stack and upgrade for €1.

feelgoodinc27

TrivialArguer wrote: »

Anyone who already did the 1Euro upgrade manage to do it again?

I got it again but it had been about a year since I previously had it.

circadian

TrivialArguer wrote: »

Anyone who already did the 1Euro upgrade manage to do it again?

I done the upgrade last year or so. Done it this time and was charged €12.99 instead of €1 but it worked. My account says next charge is August 2023. So I guess the upgrade is avail be just not for €1 if you've done it before.

cyborg

When I go to upgrade it says:

Ultimate 1-Month
€1.00 including VAT for the first month
€12.99 including VAT every month after that

So which is it? €1.00 until end of live sub or above?

circadian

cyborg wrote: »

When I go to upgrade it says:

Ultimate 1-Month
€1.00 including VAT for the first month
€12.99 including VAT every month after that

So which is it? €1.00 until end of live sub or above?

It has auto-renew so at the end of the upgrade period it'll charge €12.99 a month, which you can cancel at the time.

Soarer

Gadge wrote: »

Normally just a €1 once off. I did the same thing myself last year and it worked no bother.

Did it myself last year, but can’t really remember what I did!

Or if I can do it again seeing as my sub(s) are still active.

Will have a cut off it and see what happens. Will check hukd to see if there are any Live bargains.

recyclops

If you've already done the 1 euro it will be 12.99 to convert gold to gamepass ultimate. I did it myself two weeks ago.

Bought 2 12 months of live entered both individually got an extraonth free for each.

Then did the upgrade to ultimate offer and paid 12.99 for first month.

Now have gamepass til November 2022

circadian

recyclops wrote: »

If you've already done the 1 euro it will be 12.99 to convert gold to gamepass ultimate. I did it myself two weeks ago.

Bought 2 12 months of live entered both individually got an extraonth free for each.

Then did the upgrade to ultimate offer and paid 12.99 for first month.

Now have gamepass til November 2022

Grand, I paid the €12.99 too assuming that was the reason, glad to hear it wasn't just me!

balfe1990

recyclops wrote: »

If you've already done the 1 euro it will be 12.99 to convert gold to gamepass ultimate. I did it myself two weeks ago.

Bought 2 12 months of live entered both individually got an extraonth free for each.

Then did the upgrade to ultimate offer and paid 12.99 for first month.

Now have gamepass til November 2022

This is exactly what I did a couple of weeks back too

recyclops

If you go to xbox.com then subscription after logging on it will tell you the date of the next payment to see if it worked

RedXIV

Any idea when this expires? I'm awaiting payday next week

Soarer

RedXIV wrote: »

Any idea when this expires? I'm awaiting payday next week

If you’re anything like me, it’ll be the day before payday!

TrivialArguer

ShatterProof wrote: »

If you have ultimate already do not try to purchase Xbox live as it will automatically convert at full price. You have to let your ultimate expire before you can “downgrade” and purchase live again. Then you can stack and upgrade for €1.

feelgoodinc27 wrote: »

I got it again but it had been about a year since I previously had it.

circadian wrote: »

I done the upgrade last year or so. Done it this time and was charged €12.99 instead of €1 but it worked. My account says next charge is August 2023. So I guess the upgrade is avail be just not for €1 if you've done it before.

recyclops wrote: »

If you've already done the 1 euro it will be 12.99 to convert gold to gamepass ultimate. I did it myself two weeks ago.

Bought 2 12 months of live entered both individually got an extraonth free for each.

Then did the upgrade to ultimate offer and paid 12.99 for first month.

Now have gamepass til November 2022

balfe1990 wrote: »

This is exactly what I did a couple of weeks back too

Thanks guys

yoshimitsu

where does one find good deals on xbox live codes these days? I used to be able to get 12-months (some times 12+1 months) consistently below €40 on cdkeys and ebay but more like €45-47 on average the last few times... is that the going rate?

recyclops

as its been removed it does appear to be, a number of people have also reported issues with regions sent by cd keys so i just went to smyths to save the hassle ( first time i paid more than 50 for xbox in over a decade probably)

Tipsy McSwagger

recyclops wrote: »

as its been removed it does appear to be, a number of people have also reported issues with regions sent by cd keys so i just went to smyths to save the hassle ( first time i paid more than 50 for xbox in over a decade probably)

It clearly shows the region on CDKEYS

recyclops

it does indeed and most should of worked in ireland but people had issues with worldwide and eu codes

cyborg

recyclops wrote: »

it does indeed and most should of worked in ireland but people had issues with worldwide and eu codes

yep, I can confirm this

circadian

I ordered 3 years worth from kinguin but they asked for photo id so I got it refunded and bought them from cdkeys instead.

yoshimitsu

i still have 13 months left of live+game pass. So once I've extended Live by using a 12-month code, how do i go about converting it to game pass for €12.99?

general Q: can I use this to download PC games on my desktop?

Soarer

yoshimitsu wrote: »

i still have 13 months left of live+game pass. So once I've extended Live by using a 12-month code, how do i go about converting it to game pass for €12.99?

*waits patiently to see the answer to this*

recyclops

yoshimitsu wrote: »

i still have 13 months left of live+game pass. So once I've extended Live by using a 12-month code, how do i go about converting it to game pass for €12.99?

general Q: can I use this to download PC games on my desktop?

as far as i am aware you need to wait untill all your live is gone before you can add the other 12 month code.

if you add it now it will only ad 3 months of gamepass ultimate

general question is yeah you can download games to desktop

bucks73

recyclops wrote: »

as far as i am aware you need to wait untill all your live is gone before you can add the other 12 month code.

if you add it now it will only ad 3 months of gamepass ultimate

general question is yeah you can download games to desktop

You can add all you like. I had Xbox Live up as far February 2022 and just added another 12 months with the extra month for turning on auto renew to bring it up to March 2023.

Then added the Ultimate offer for €1 to give me that until April 2023.

I had been on the previous Ultimate €1 offer until February this year when I cancelled it. Been checking recently and it kept giving me the €12.99 price until day when it quoted €1 so went for it again.

TitianGerm

bucks73 wrote: »

You can add all you like. I had Xbox Live up as far February 2022 and just added another 12 months with the extra month for turning on auto renew to bring it up to March 2023.

Then added the Ultimate offer for €1 to give me that until April 2023.

I had been on the previous Ultimate €1 offer until February this year when I cancelled it. Been checking recently and it kept giving me the €12.99 price until day when it quoted €1 so went for it again.

No you are wrong on both counts. The maximum amount of Live you can stack is 3 years.

Also the other person already has game pass. They need to let that run out or cancel it, stack Live and then convert.

If you convert live when you have Game Pass already the 12 month live code will convert to 3 months of Game Pass.

Soarer

So what I'm getting is, if you already have Live AND Game Pass already.

1. Cancel your current Game Pass.
2. Extend your Live out to a maximum of 3 years.
3. Upgrade to Ultimate, which may ost you €1 or €12.99.

Is that the long and the short of it?

bucks73

TitianGerm wrote: »

No you are wrong on both counts. The maximum amount of Live you can stack is 3 years.

Also the other person already has game pass. They need to let that run out or cancel it, stack Live and then convert.

If you convert live when you have Game Pass already the 12 month live code will convert to 3 months of Game Pass.

Aah I didnt read the xbox live+gamepass. Cool.

RunningHorse

Just to add my experience as I've been meaning to do this for a while. I used kinguin as it had the cheapest keys I could see for brazil at the moment, 3 years of brazil live cost about 66 quid. Honey extension got me a little extra of the codes with the code MIDWEEK. I'd already used the trial for ultimate so cost 12.99 to upgrade and now I'm covered till 2023. Guides on using the brazil codes are easy to find, just need a vpn. I bought one code at a time off kinguin in case there were any issues so I wasn't out the full 66 euro. Long story short game pass ultimate for under 30 quid a year isn't too bad, under the cost of a new game and with xbox releasing their own releases on day one to game pass it makes it worthwhile.

RedXIV

Decided to give this a bash for a year since I just got the xbox and been a PSX head most of my gaming days. But have to say, very impressed with the library

circadian

Got myself a little phone dock for my controller. Interesting playing on a phone, definitely still in beta but some things play well, Forza being the biggest surprise. I found Halo very difficult to play on my screen, might be better on a larger phone.

-=al=-

Is this still available or is there a deadline on the offer?

I used the €1 upgrade some time ago and enjoyed game pass, but currently out of any sort of subscription at the minute. Thinking of getting a 6/12 month subscription and trying the upgrade for 12.99 as I find I use the Xbox more over Autumn/Winter

ondafly

-=al=- wrote: »

Is this still available or is there a deadline on the offer?

I used the €1 upgrade some time ago and enjoyed game pass, but currently out of any sort of subscription at the minute. Thinking of getting a 6/12 month subscription and trying the upgrade for 12.99 as I find I use the Xbox more over Autumn/Winter

so I had previously "upgraded" for €1 - this recently expired. I stacked 3 xbox live 12 month subs, and then was charged 12.99 to convert to Ultimate. So I'm good now until Sept/2023

-=al=-

Was going to just try it with a month subscription and see if I get the upgrade option for 12.99 as I’ve previously used the €1 upgrade. I’m just not sure if it’s still available

If it all works out, I’ll probably try and stack a longer sub with a Brazilian code and a vpn before upgrading

Edit: It is indeed still available! I chanced getting a 12 month Brazil gold subscription added it to the account, had a few error messages trying to upgrade to ultimate online in the browser, region/address issues... tried a few jiggery pokery workarounds with no joy, tried to upgrade on the xbox and same issues... then finally managed to get the upgrade for 12.99 on the app on my phone that worked without the errors. A bit fiddley but worked in the end and got a year of ultimate for about €3 quid a month

branners69

Anyone get the “ You currently have a subscription from a different region ” error when trying to upgrade to Ultimate? Anyway around it?

Edit: Just saw -=al=- response above. Will try that now!

That didnt work, if I pick up a 1 month Ultimate sub from Instant Gaming for €10. Can I redeem it and get the upgrade without the region error?

-=al=-

I'm not sure, but it's a similar work around I was considering while having the issues. Maybe some googling might help resolve it. Worst case I guess you could get onto customer support and try and resolve it. I've no idea why it worked on the app and not the a browser/xbox

Synode

Can't get this to work for me. When I click the Upgrade for €1 on the screen it brings me to the next page which says it's €12.99 per month. Is it because I had Ultimate for a month last month and it stopped today? Maybe I'll try again tomorrow.

-=al=-

Probably. If you vailed of the €1 offer upgrade in the past it won't work again for €1. It's a one-off of 12.99 instead. Still decent, if it works that is

@branners69 Did you get it to work?

branners69

-=al=- wrote: »

@branners69 Did you get it to work?

I got the 1 Month Ultimate from Instant Gaming and it worked. The 14 day trial might work if you are a new subscriber. It also added the month on so am good until October 2021.

https://www.instant-gaming.com/en/4993-buy-xbox-game-pass-ultimate-1-month/

-=al=-

Good to know if a similar offer comes out in future there’s a backup option

TrivialArguer

To anyone having issues read the last few pages of this thread

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057711728

InDarkWoods

So, I have an extra 12-month subscription code from Eneba.com ... I bought 3, but wasn't able to activate the last one as there's a limit on how many you can stack. I bought them for €30 each, but if someone here wants to buy it for €20, I'll happily trade. It's no good to me now since I already upgraded to Ultimate, so the code is fresh and valid.

melikebanana

InDarkWoods wrote: »

So, I have an extra 12-month subscription code from Eneba.com ... I bought 3, but wasn't able to activate the last one as there's a limit on how many you can stack. I bought them for €30 each, but if someone here wants to buy it for €20, I'll happily trade. It's no good to me now since I already upgraded to Ultimate, so the code is fresh and valid.

Is this for a subscription to Xbox ultimate? Do you know if it works for game pass for pc? If yes I would take it.

feelgoodinc27

InDarkWoods wrote: »

So, I have an extra 12-month subscription code from Eneba.com ... I bought 3, but wasn't able to activate the last one as there's a limit on how many you can stack. I bought them for €30 each, but if someone here wants to buy it for €20, I'll happily trade. It's no good to me now since I already upgraded to Ultimate, so the code is fresh and valid.

Something similar happened to me with a code I bought from cdkeys and I was able to get a refund from them. I don’t know if eneba do refunds but could be something to try.

InDarkWoods

I actually tried, but they said since I viewed the code, they can't refund it. I even provided screenshots from Microsoft showing that it wasn't accepted. So I'm just gonna sell it for €10 cheaper and make some of my money back if anyone actually wants it.

InDarkWoods

melikebanana wrote: »

Is this for a subscription to Xbox ultimate? Do you know if it works for game pass for pc? If yes I would take it.

This is: https://www.eneba.com/xbox-xbox-live-gold-12-months-xbox-live-key-brazil

I bought 3, with the intention of stacking them and then converting to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for €1.

I was only able to activate 2 of them; I can provide screenshots of the error message for the last code.

When I added them, I thought I made a mistake because it's not Game Pass, it's Xbox Gold ... and I don't have an Xbox.

Happily, I was still able to convert them on the Xbox PC app to Ultimate, and now I'm set until 2023.

So, it actually worked for me and should work for you if you're intending to do the same.

How would you like to trade (Revolut + WhatsApp? PayPal?)

Metroid diorteM

The xbox app was trying to redeem my code on the UK store. I had to change it to Ireland in the xbox app language and region settings before I could use game pass ultimate codes.

melikebanana

InDarkWoods wrote: »

This is: https://www.eneba.com/xbox-xbox-live-gold-12-months-xbox-live-key-brazil

I bought 3, with the intention of stacking them and then converting to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for €1.

I was only able to activate 2 of them; I can provide screenshots of the error message for the last code.

When I added them, I thought I made a mistake because it's not Game Pass, it's Xbox Gold ... and I don't have an Xbox.

Happily, I was still able to convert them on the Xbox PC app to Ultimate, and now I'm set until 2023.

So, it actually worked for me and should work for you if you're intending to do the same.

How would you like to trade (Revolut + WhatsApp? PayPal?)

Ok I'll give it a go. I assume I need a Brazil VPN. PM me your email address for PayPal and I'll send 20 over for it.