kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:Monkey Man wrote:kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:So im thinking about buying some cheap Live membership on CDkeys and then consolidating it with my existing Game Pass sub to give me approx 24 months of ultimate (for £1). As far as i can tell there is only one catch - you cannot drop down from the ultimate tier. I guess this means that if i buy any game pass credit etc using rewards, it will be scaled to down to approx 2/3 its duration? If so, that makes it seem like less of a "no brainer" than everyone declares it as being. Or am i missing something here?
Do we know how long the Ultimate conversion for £1 is going to be on offer for? I never really play games online, and the Games with Gold are almost never as enticing as the Game Pass offerings, so am not sure if i should "jump in" with this offer or not....
This highlights my issue. At the moment I can redeem 3 months of game pass every 4 months or so. If I'm only going to be getting 2 months of ultimate then I am actually worse off if I never play online. The only time I actually benefit is from the initial saving on Xbox live Vs games pass (about 15 quid). The saving is more significant if I buy 2 years of Xbox live, but knowing my luck I will be dead before then, and I will look like a right mug....
Clearly this is a me issue, but I wonder if people are mistakenly thinking there are zero downsides. Canceling and setting up a new non ultimate membership at the end of the term is a valid arguement, but that requires a little bit more coordinating on the users part.
If you max out your sub before applying the ultimate £1 offer that gives you 3 years. Then just wait until the 12 months gold is on offer on rewards.
It will cost about 22,000 which is 2 months worth of reward points. Unlike the gift cards that automatically apply to your account with an expiry, the gold redemption is a standard code you can apply to your account at any time. Save those codes to top up your 3 year account when it nears the end.
In 3 years you should easily be able to save up enough reward points to bulk buy 12 month gold codes and save for a rainy day.
Even while not being on offer you should be able to save enough reward points to redeem against the gold membership quicker than that membership expires. It looks like the 6 month and 12 month gold codes are currently out of stock (probably from them being on sale a month ago) so I can't find out how much they cost usually.