Xbox Game Pass Ultimate: How does switching from Gold and Pass and adding codes?
If you already have an Xbox Live Gold or Xbox Game Pass subscription, using the 1-month Ultimate 1-Euro subscription you will not get only 1 month Ultimate subscription but the "linear sum" of your current subscriptions plus one month. If for example you have 3 months of Gold plus 6 months of residual Pass , taking the ultimate subscription you will have a total of 10 months of ultimate; This means that the 3 months of Gold are practically trifold, while those of Pass have almost doubled. The convenience is obvious; Imagine for example that you have both the Gold and the Pass until June 2020, then 12 months each; Taking the Ultimate today you will arrive in July 2021 (12 + 12 + 1), thus obtaining a free year! The maximum reach is 36 months.
But the convenience is there even if you have only one subscription: If for example on your account you have 10 months of Gold and no pass, activating the Ultimate you will arrive to 11 months, in fact obtaining in gift 11 months of Pass that before you had not! And in all this there is also the plus of being able to use the subscription also on PC to play the many titles that are being added to the PC user.
Clarified the operation of this mechanism, another question arises: What happens if I buy or give me a Gold or Pass code? Can I redeem it?
The answer is Yes: The redeemed subscription will be recalculated on the basis of its value compared to the Ultimate, thus extending this to the number of days corresponding. For example, if you redeem 1 month of Gold, you will get a 20-day extension of Ultimate. The same applies to the Pass: if you redeem a 1 month Game Pass code, you will get a 20-day extension of Ultimate. The following table shows you the correspondence between all the Gold and Pass subscription cuts and how they will be converted into the Ultimate Pass.
Cut Gold/Pass subscription redeemed: | Turns into: |
1 month Gold | + 20 days Ultimate |
3 months Gold | + 50 Days Ultimate |
6 months Gold | + 79 Days Ultimate |
12 months Gold | + 4 months Ultimate |
24 Months Gold | + 8 months Ultimate |
1 month Xbox Game Pass | + 20 days Ultimate |
3 months Xbox Game Pass | + 2 months Ultimate |
6 months Xbox Game Pass (Console Games) | + 4 months Ultimate |
12 months Xbox Game Pass (Console Games) | + 5 months Ultimate |
24 Months Xbox Game Pass (Console Games) | + 10 months Ultimate |
1 month Xbox Game Pass PC Games | + 20 days Ultimate |
If you think that switching to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate can be convenient for you, you only have to activate your subscription to 1 Euro and enjoy the extension of your current subscriptions!