stepee Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 I know that the trick still works where you can essentially buy a bunch of a cheap Xbox Gold cards and then convert them into Gamepass Ultimate, apparently now at a 3:2 ratio. Mine is going to run out Monday so it will be time for me to do the trick again and also I need to then tell my step dad how to do it. Just want to make sure I have this right. So if I want 3 years of Ultimate myself - I buy 18 3 month Gold cards from cdkeys - so that’s 54 months of Gold which should then convert at 3:2 to 36 months of Ultimate - do I have that right? And so when it lapses - first thing I do is NOT renew (i canceled so it won’t auto renew) and then I add my fucking 18 codes so I have all that Gold and then go to join Ultimate and it will just present me with the option? I think this is right but it’s such a weird thing and a lot of money in advance to pull it off so I’m hoping someone here can confirm I’m not missing anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted December 1, 2023 Author Share Posted December 1, 2023 Oh, I didn’t realize they still sell 12 and 6 month cards so all I would need then are 4 12 month cards and one 6 month card..if I’m calculating this right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaethos Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 I don't know how it works if you let Gamepass lapse and try the conversion, but a 3 month Gold card gives you 50 days of Ultimate if you add it to your subscription. At least it still did a month or two ago. Edit: you get a better conversion rate with the 3 month cards than the 12 month cards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted December 1, 2023 Author Share Posted December 1, 2023 I know it’s definitely not a one time thing and you can do it again (this will be my third time) and on resetera it says you can do it after it lapses on that sticky thread. Was your subscription lapsed when you added that card? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaethos Posted December 2, 2023 Share Posted December 2, 2023 No, I've just been extending it via 3 month gold cards from CDKeys. The last time a bought a few they were $11 each, which is less than $7 a month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted December 2, 2023 Author Share Posted December 2, 2023 2 minutes ago, jaethos said: No, I've just been extending it via 3 month gold cards from CDKeys. The last time a bought a few they were $11 each, which is less than $7 a month. Ahh got it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
best3444 Posted December 2, 2023 Share Posted December 2, 2023 What should I do? My ultimate ran out and I don't feel like going through hoops like stepee is explaining. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpvoteShittyTakesOnly Posted December 2, 2023 Share Posted December 2, 2023 i bought a bunch of 3 month gold codes after my ultimate lapsed for a day and then did the conversion easy as always 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted December 2, 2023 Author Share Posted December 2, 2023 23 minutes ago, UpvoteShittyTakesOnly said: i bought a bunch of 3 month gold codes after my ultimate lapsed for a day and then did the conversion easy as always Thanks - It’s just too good to be true so needed to confirm! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted December 2, 2023 Author Share Posted December 2, 2023 1 hour ago, best3444 said: What should I do? My ultimate ran out and I don't feel like going through hoops like stepee is explaining. I’m over explaining it to make sure my math is right but I think it is and because my Ultimate didn’t run out yet. To simplify: If your Ultimate is completely out (not about to run out, you no longer have Ultimate): Buy a 1 year gold code and a 6 month gold code from cdkeys - add them to your account Join Ultimate - it should present you with an option to convert the gold to Ultimate This will get you a year of Ultimate for about $75. Multiply that if you want to do two or three years. The reason to do more years is they have already adjusted this ratio and next year you may not be able to do this. Three years is the max. Edit: I hear you want to wait 24 hours after your Ultimate ran out also before you do this Your other option is you can pay like $17/mo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted December 2, 2023 Share Posted December 2, 2023 9 minutes ago, stepee said: Thanks - It’s just too good to be true so needed to confirm! You're too good to be true. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpvoteShittyTakesOnly Posted December 2, 2023 Share Posted December 2, 2023 yes you do need to have a 24 hour lapse in your current ultimate sub to make the conversion trick work correctly 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
best3444 Posted December 2, 2023 Share Posted December 2, 2023 2 hours ago, stepee said: I’m over explaining it to make sure my math is right but I think it is and because my Ultimate didn’t run out yet. To simplify: If your Ultimate is completely out (not about to run out, you no longer have Ultimate): Buy a 1 year gold code and a 6 month gold code from cdkeys - add them to your account Join Ultimate - it should present you with an option to convert the gold to Ultimate This will get you a year of Ultimate for about $75. Multiply that if you want to do two or three years. The reason to do more years is they have already adjusted this ratio and next year you may not be able to do this. Three years is the max. Edit: I hear you want to wait 24 hours after your Ultimate ran out also before you do this Your other option is you can pay like $17/mo Ok, thank you. I have a lawyer fee and other payments where I will drain my bank account on Monday. I'm not concerned about xbl right now anyway but I'll come back and reread this when I can buy it again so I appreciate it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted December 6, 2023 Author Share Posted December 6, 2023 The good thing about this cloning process taking forever is I used the time waiting to get this over with as well. Yep, still works! Ended up spending $240 for just 3 weeks shy of 3 years of Ultimate. $80 a year is a hell of a deal. What I didn’t realize is you can only add 3 years of GOLD, so that means you can only do the conversion to get the first two years. Then the other cards I had left over didn’t convert quite as much but close enough that it ended up only 7 weeks short of a year and you have to buy the one month of Ultimate at full price (that’s included when I say $240) so with being only 3 weeks shy of 3 years at that point, I can’t add another month anyway. So I’d say all worked out as planned! That is over a $350 savings, ntb 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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