It's back again! After you buy it, you'll get another 3 month code emailed to you within a couple of days. Don't worry too much it takes that long. YMMV
Xbox LIVE Game Pass Ultimate (3 Months) + Bonus 3 Months Code $47.95 @ JB Hi-Fi
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Yep, get on board with their Ultimate Micro Soft range! After all, if you sit down and think about it, game pass requires the ass-end.
And nappies :)
Maybe I'm the only one that doesn't see the value in gamepass. I mean xbox live is a sunk cost, but shelling out over $120 for a year to rent games doesn't appeal to me. Over the course of the life of a console that's a big amount, and intro pricing won t last forever. You don't even get a shiny collection on your shelf.
Except this is $96 (and includes gold?)
Ok didn't see the bonus 3 months. Definitely easier to swallow.
So 6 months of gold + the games that come with ultimate.. is there a cheaper way to get just Gold?
12 Months of gold is $70 so $6.67 a month vs this at $8 a month but it does go on sale fairly regularly for $60-$65 but they might stop doing that to get everyone on gamepass.
Wonder if this stacks with the $1 Gold deal.
I bought one and got the code within 5 minutes of ordering :)
Thanks for linking the deal
You should expect two emails :) They each have a code for 3 months. Keep an eye out for the other one!
How long does the second email take to come through?48 hours
stock it up, guys. when the city is locked down, you at least can have something fun to do at home.
Can you stack these?
Yep~ You're technically stacking these as you get issued two separate codes. You don't have to wait for the first 3 months to expire before activating the other. From memory though, you can only activate up to three years' worth of future game pass time
This would be better for most people https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/462527
Grab a Brazilian gift card from cdkeys and then convert to ultimate. 12months less than $55.
Most people already have ultimate so can’t convert.
To confirm, I have already used Ultimate trial.
I will buy 12 months of Gold using cdkeys.
Purchase 1 month of Ultimate for $15 (as you wont get it for $1), it will convert gold to Ultimate giving you 13 months.
Can this be achieved?I already used Ultimate trial and let it expire. I was able to get another $1 Ultimate trial last night which I stacked on 26 months of Brazilian Live Gold and ended up with 27 months Game Pass Ultimate.
@carden: I was wondering if this would work, as my Game Pass has also expired. Where'd you get your Brazilian Gold from?
@axeology: I cant see, we can buy it anymore. it says in cdkeys website that gold is for region Brazil only.
@axeology: I got it from cdkeys and used a VPN to change my location to Brazil when activating it. Worked perfect, I actually did it twice so I could get up to the 27 month mark
@carden: Do you mean you had LIVE and originally used the GamePass Ultimate (GPU) $1 stack to set the expiry date of GPU to the same as your original LIVE. Then let GPU expire, signed up to LIVE using the Brazil code and applied the $1 stack again?
@ShortyX: Almost. I didn't have Live when I used my first Game Pass Ultimate $1 offer, when I redeemed that I got the Live with it. Then when all that expired, I signed up to Live using a Brazil code twice and redeemed the $1 offer again to stack it.
@carden: I used the $1 GPU offer last year when I had Live and GPU expires tomorrow. If I let the GPU expire, sign up to Live using Brazil code, do you think the $1 GPU offer would work again?
I'm getting conflicting answers here.
EDIT: Looks like you can do it twice - https://www.reddit.com/r/xboxone/comments/fwqcn2/converting_…
Good point. I hadn't thought of that
quite new to xbox. how can I apply this to my au xbox account? change the region of my account to brazil then redeem the code from cdkeys? or use vpn and connect to brazil then redeem?
I bought four of these last time this deal came around and the bonus codes, not the purchased codes, gave you the option to apply recurring billing for an additional month, I accepted and removed immediately and repeated 3 times and got an additional month for each bonus code.
So you actually get 7 month for the cost of 3 months ultimate.
That's a pretty good deal.
Thanks for the heads up.
Wow hope that happens for me! Cheers
Had the same last time, but it doesn't appear to be falling for that trick now… :(
What happens if I recently paid for a years worth of Live?
convert it! or max out gold first, then convert it.
I’ve heard of that, how does that work mate?
Buy or stack 3 years worth of Xbox Live Gold and buy the 1 month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and it will convert the 3 years into Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Game Pass for PC and Xbox Live Gold for that 1 month purchase of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. This will only work if you haven't already converted to the new subscription.
Is XB1 Ultimate worth it if you don't play online a lot? IMO most of the single-player titles (worth playing at all) can be "completed" in probably a few months and generally lack a replayability value. Of course, there are exceptions like Witcher 3 or GTA V online if you are into grinding. After that, I fail to see any value in it, especially if you don't have a lot of friends to play online. Does anyone see an upside that I am missing?
If you play online, Live is a given. How often is up to you decide cost/benefit.
If you're the type of person to play one game at a time and takes their time, you're probably better off buying the game than paying for game pass. Imo game pass is good if you have kids (to leave them to their own devices and not have to worry about buying new games every 2 weeks) or someone with a lot of time to game to make full use of the catalogue. Professionals with limited time on their hands aren't going to extract max value from it.
I am a professional, I play about an hour after work in the evening and maybe several hours/day over the weekend so I could binge game if I want to and I agree with both of your use cases. Regardless I did not find their catalog impressive. Yes, I agree there are some great titles like GOW series or occasional AAA titles like Witcher 3 or GTA V but these games are ancient and people have played them several times over I don't think it justifies ~$100/yr as you could get GTA V or Witcher for ~$20 preowned and then keep trading it over and over and you could get more value. So, no XB Ultimate for me. :)
I've personally found a lot of great games on Game Pass that I would never have seen otherwise. Recently had a heap of fun with Pikuniku and currently playing through Ori. Kingdom Hearts 3 is on there as well, but I really couldn't get into it …
But you buy into it because of the big titles and the current value for money. No one gets game pass for the "sweet games I never knew about" because you'd never buy them in the first place. It's padding for the list and if they were gone, no value would be lost. People eat it up now because at the moment Microsoft have been very generous with pricing. Wait till they need to actually make money on it.
It's padding for the list
If you just apply a basic filter of Metacritic score of >8 or IGN or whichever score system you want of about 80%, you would end up with less than 20% of the list. I guess Microsoft just added them to advertise '100+ games'.
Well they also have 15 studios now with multiple teams in each studio making different games so there's going to be enough games.
There are a few gems no doubt, but there is a lot of crap that you need to go through. Most of them are ancient XB and XB 360 ports.
Can someone confirm when this deal expires?
from product page: "Offer valid until 29.03.20 or while stocks last."
It would help if I opened my eyes and read it hey . Haha Thanks man
Just be careful with the wording
Last time this deal was on it expired the day prior to the date. I guess that’s what “until” means. So I’d say the 28/03/20 is the last day you could get it. Dunno might be wrong but definitely went to JB on what was in my mind the last day and it wasn’t on offer
Do these expire? IE. If i buy now, can i sit on it for a few weeks/months to finish what im currently playing before activating?
Same question. If they were physical cards, then I'd feel ok, but it feels risky holding onto digital codes that may get mixed up and redeemed.
If you bought this now, rather 3 months ago then buy toilet papper instead since you missed the deal of a decade.
36 months for $270, This for three months wow, best of luck to you all.
If it was 36 months for $270 then the joke is on you. Using the instructions above, this is 7 months for $47.95 which is equivalent to $246.60 for 36 months.
Better yet, also going by the above, it's cheaper if you haven't had gold before because you can get three years of that and convert it to GP ultimate for $1.
It makes no difference if new or old the $1 conversation to game pass ultimate duuh.
The trial only lasts for 3 years, and it doesn't stack on ultimate only gold, or those that sign up via $1 gold 2 week trial
In-store customers will receive the code on receipt at time of purchase. Offer valid until 29.03.20 or while stocks last.Limit 1 per order.
Good luck getting that as I said, $270 for 3 years, ($47.95)x2)(95.90)x3)287.70)suck it.
Limit 1 per order.
Per order, not per account. You can buy as many as you want, just not in a single transaction.
You missed it's 7 months not 6. "Suck it".
I don't know how to quote comments but look at spirrowhack's post for details.
Anyone bought and received the 2nd code yet?Edit: NVM - "Online orders will receive the bonus code via email 48 hours after order completion"
I've been getting free Xbox live/ game pass using Microsoft rewards points from the Rewards Automator app
I'm new to the rewards… Do I just open the app daily and hit search all?
Anything else to it?
Cheers@eggs: Yes, everyday you can "search all" which gives me 162 points. You can also do the "daily activities" and keep scrolling down to see the "more activities" to get an extra 80 points or so. If you keep up a daily streak you unlock bonus points as well.
Before you know it you'll have stacks of points
They cancelled my order which I made yesterday morning. No email, no nothing - had to go to my account on JB to find it out. Cash in the bank. Weird. Tried again and got payment pending… Fingers crossed.
Went through this time. Yeah, I know… talking to myself. The sound of one hand clapping.
Weird
I was phoned by jbhifi and they confirmed my details before they sent me the codes. I guess they should have tried to contact you somehow 🤔
Two days ago I paid 1 dollar for the game pass ultimate trial, thought it was for one month, last night I canceled the subscription to avoid further cost, then found that this one dollar offer last until mid October, if you haven’t tried yet, perhaps this eight months for one dollar offer from Microsoft is even better.
It will automatically convert all your gold to ultimate so you don't lose money. Up to 3 years worth of gold can be converted but only once. All for $1 (on top of gold cost).
In my case my gold expired on 14/3/2020, so this is truly a gift.
Can anyone advise where to get 12 month xbox Gold ?
Thinking to get that and then 1 month ultimate to convert gold to ultimate.JB does also sell it, but I don't know if you can use it for existing accounts. I think so long as you've never done a trial. Not sure if it works on new accounts either. I'm just reluctant to cheap out since I have a sizeable digital catalog
Looking for a decent price. normal price is quite expensive for gold membership
Got my two codes and one of them has already been redeemed :(
I had the same error message on the second code as well. However after checking my sub it did in fact work.
In addition, I found that redeeming via Microsoft website with reoccurring billing turned off allowed an additional month if reoccurring sub was switched on at time of redemption.
Managed to get an additional 2 months…
Cheers
I forgot to turn it off before redeeming.
Just checked again and it has been added now, so all good
I wasn't able to redeem the code on the website. It told me to redeem the code on console ;(
Just a note to you guys:
I'm not sure if this is targeted. The situation I'm in is I've already used the $1 ultimate membership twice now, and subscribed once for $15.95/3 months. I've let it lapse in February. When I check for a new subscription on Microsoft and select 3 months instead of 1 month, it still shows $15.95/3months.
Useful for those who probably want to go back to work after 3 months.
If you're after the maths, this JB offer $47.95/6months = $7.99/month
Microsoft 3 month offer $15.95/3months = $5.31/month (possibly target - who knows?)
Anyone else having troubles with redeeming their code? Tried both console and on the web still won't work
Can this be redeemed on an non-Australian account?
So I was going to get this for a mate, he just got laid off due to the corona, but he doesn't want to keep paying for Ultimate after the 6mths is up.
He already has a years worth of Xbox Live, if I purchase it, will game pass stop after 6mths and he can keep using his Live?
Hope that makes sense :)
No, it converts to Game Pass ultimate and does weird math-like things to the remaining subscription …
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/xbox/forum/all/xobox-liv…
Sorry for the late thanks!
But thank you, that's a bummer about it though :)
Curious, anyone ordered this and how long does it normally take for the second code to come through?
Been 24 hours - just going they aren't going to turn around and me stocks have run out.
I just received the second code a little under an hour ago. I purchased it on Saturday.
All good, I just got it
Took 3 days but better late than never I guess. :)
Is this 3 month offer still working?
I bought this back on the day it came out.
I only just remembered to redeem my codes and I've noticed that it doesn't look like I had a second code sent to me.
What should I do?Did you check your junk folder(s)? Sometimes I get emails going there when they should be going to my inbox.
Otherwise, all I can suggest is sending them an email with your order number and see if they can do anything for you.
People should be stockpiling on these instead of Toilet Paper.