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I taught 3 years worked out at 1 year Ultimate? This conversion business is annoying haha.

You still buy games on the Irish store, unless you get an out of region key and activate via VPN. Nothing else will change about your account or game licences.

You can redeem codes from any region with a VPN and it won't change your accounts location. If you have a Turkish card you can use that on the Xbox website to buy stuff cheaper but nothing changes your account being Irish.

Let your GP ultimate subscription run out first and then add the gold and upgrade to gamepass to get the max value out of it

Cheers lads I'll just wait till it's up in November. Microsoft changing Gold won't interfere with any of this no?

Use a different vpn, some of them like Tunnel Bear don't work for code redemption on the Xbox website.

Use a different VPN/browser combo or wait 24 hours and try again. Sometimes Microsoft will block you for 24hrs from redeeming codes after too many errors.

Also use a browser on PC instead of using a phone.

Probably depends of the T&Cs of the offer. For example Ive seen some offers for new subscribers only in the past.

If you have the codes just try adding them in the Xbox section of your Microsoft Account. Cant do any harm if they are rejected, but if they are accepted them it will simply extend out your membership by the applicable time period.

My Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription is expiring. I previously bought a couple of years worth via Turkish VPN. Is this how I need to do it now? Not sure what you mean by repeated the above, did you cancel your original purchases and buy again with ultimate?

Ok and where are people buying their codes these days? Got last ones in cdkeys

The €1 offer has expired and the conversion ratio has changed to 3:2. Buying 1 year of Core/Gold and then a month of GPU will give you 8 months + 1 after conversion.

You're best off stacking 3 years and ending up with 25 months after conversion.

Subscribing to Ultimate converts your remaining time on Core to Ultimate. Once the Ultimate sub runs out you need to resubscribe.

I found game pass core (Turkish VPN) on gamivo but it says that codes cannot be stacked, is there somewhere I can get games pass core for 12 months that is stackable? Thanks

No, they don't expire.

Xbox Live Gold is now Xbox Game Pass Core.

Microsoft changed conversion from 1:1 to 3:2, so 3 years of core/gold to 3 years of GPU is now 3 years of core/gold into 2 years of GPU.

Process still remains the same - See first post for details.

If you dont have access to an offer like the €1/month, then you need to pay for a full month AFAIK - stand to be corrected on this.

Turkey should be cheapest but worth checking others. Also check Eneba remembering they also charge service fees

They may have black friday deals

It should do. You can't have an active Core and GPU sub at the same time, if you're eligible for the offer it should convert. Afaik the only subs that won't convert it are the non stackable trial sub cards you see sold on key resellers.

Might be worth stacking another 18 months onto your Core sub before converting.

South Africa is cheap has anyone use codes for them or?

Is there a sale on the regular EU/UK 12 month codes? I think I paid a total €30 extra stacking 36 months last year getting the correct region while saving some hassle

If anyone has to do this anytime soon the Turkey codes dont seem to stack for more than 12 months currenty so be careful. I ended up going with South Africa 96 euro for 3 x 12 months core codes on Cdkeys. Download Urban VPN its free connect to the region then redeem each code one after the other via this link Microsoft account | Redeem your code or gift card

When your done go in check your subscription to make sure your on Microsoft Game Pass Core for the amount of time you have added then sign out of the VPN. In the subscription part of the Microsoft site there should be an option to update to Ulitmate where you can update for a euro. It will than give you your time when Ultimate will need to be renewed i got December 12th 2025 from buying three years of Core. Make sure you turn off recurring billing. Sorted!

I think it's just Turkey that has a 13 month limit.

But non stackable codes will almost always say that, usually it's someone flogging the likes of free 3 month trials from Doritos or Pringles or some other promo

Can I get a quick reminder, what 12 monthly pass do I need, is it gold or core. I want to get the GPU deal.

Thanks