If you are extending an existing Ultimate subscription, do not buy 12 month cards! Instead buy the 3 month cards.
If you are stacking these to convert to Ultimate afterwards then you don't have to worry about this. The conversion rate is a static 3:2 (66%) no matter how much time you are converting.
However, if you already have ultimate and wish to use this to extend your subscription then DO NOT BUY 12 MONTH CARDS!
You need to be aware that the conversion rate for extending Ultimate with Core cards provides different conversion rates based on how many months the card is for, and 12 month cards convert at almost half the rate as 3 month cards.
According to Microsoft's FAQ's, [xbox.com] a 3 month core subscription card will convert into 50 days of Ultimate, so a rate of about 55%. Meanwhile, a 12 month core subscription card converts into only 120 days of Ultimate, a conversion rate of 33%.
BOTTOM LINE: With this deal you will spend $43.20 for 120 days, or about $0.36/day.
If you buy three 3 month core cards from this same website for $45.57, you will get 150 days of ultimate at a cost of $0.30/day.
(You could also shop around and get better deals than this, ex: Eneba currently has the 3 month cards for a couple bucks less.)
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expiredWCFonXBOX posted May 23, 2024 1:52 AM
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For those wondering I've had my xbox for less than a year and am relatively new to console gaming. GPU is absolutely the way to go for a casual like me.
Since I heard about the conversion rate I've been waiting for a deal to buy three years of core and convert to GPU. The newegg deal reminded me and my GPU had finally expired. Newegg was oos so I went with cdkeys.
First of all I bought and redeemed them one by one and had no problems. Finally I bought one month of GPU and it converted 3:2. So 36 months of core converted to 24 months of GPU. Plus one month for the GPU I used now I have 25 months of GPU which came out to $5.70 a month. Definitely a slickdeal.
Again you have to have your GPU sub lapse to receive the 3:2 conversion. Otherwise it converts at the 3:1 rate.
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So I just purchased 3 of these 1 year Game Pass Core subs. I should go redeem them to my account first.
Then I just need to buy a 1 month Game Pass Ultimate and redeem and it will do the conversion correct?
Cheapest I see for 1 month game pass ultimate is eneba at 6.34. It says "non stackable" US. I see a 1 month GPU on CDkeys for $11. Will the eneba code work? Thanks!
https://www.eneba.com/xbox-xbox-g...k0QAvD_BwE
This is still a better deal than the Target offer out there if you currently have Ultimate. $10.80 a month for this deal versus $11.66 for the Target one.
So you'd have 25 months at the rate of 3 cards here and 1 month of regular Ultimate.
I was sitting here thinking Microsoft came out with a scheme to run graphics workloads on people's xboxes for gaming pass credits...
Note: Your current GPU subscription needs to run out before doing this.
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I was sitting here thinking Microsoft came out with a scheme to run graphics workloads on people's xboxes for gaming pass credits...
Note: Your current GPU subscription needs to run out before doing this.
Still a great deal ($5.61 a month is what it cost me for 17 months of Ultimate after purchasing 2 years of core plus 1 month of Ultimate for the conversion deal).
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