It works no matter what. I had the rest of the month of April on my Game Pass for PC still open. I first canceled that, and turned off recurring billing.
If you’ve done a conversion/upgrade to Game Pass Ultimate before, you’ve used up your $1 one-time conversion. Like stusser says, it’ll now cost you $14.99 to upgrade your months.
If you haven’t, you’ll get it for $1.
It’ll tell you how much it’s going to charge you.
robc04
2706
Do I put the XBox live gold code right in the Gamepass app by clicking on account there?
If you have the Gamepass app installed on your PC, click on your account name/avatar picture.
Click settings.
You’ll see a line that says “Subscriptions” on the left and “Manage” on the right.
Click “Manage”.
That should open a browser to the Microsoft Services & Subscriptions page.
You can redeem from there. I believe there’s a Redeem button on that page under subscriptions and when you put the code in, it recognizes that it’s XBLive Gold.
So…just to be clear, if I have, like, a year and a half of Game Pass for PC stored up, can I upgrade all that to Ultimate or does it have to be Xbox Live Gold? Or does it matter?
And why does Microsoft have to make everything they sell so goddamn confusing?
I’m not sure. I think the upgrade only applies to XBLG to Ultimate. But I could be wrong. You can go to the Microsoft services & subscriptions page to see if there’s an upgrade button on your subscription months.
You aren’t kidding! The reason it took me so long to take advantage was the confusion they create.
Right now, as I understand the terminology (and I might be wrong):
Xbox Live Gold: applies to the Microsoft consoles
Xbox Game Pass for PC: applies only to the PC (Thanks for putting the word “Xbox” in there, guys.)
Game Pass Ultimate: works for both console and PC together – basically joins the two above entities.
robc04
2711
Thanks again, I’m in until 2024!
Awesome!
I did it this morning before work (because I’d gotten that NewEgg sale in my email overnight) and before coffee…and despite my trepidation that I’d screw something up, they do give you a lot of confirmation click-throughs and such that make it a little easier to do than just describing it here does justice to.
Well, here’s what I found when I just went poking through the Xbox for PC account management screen.
Hopefully that means I can upgrade.
I’m not gonna do it until I bag an actual Xbox, which might take awhile…but I think it’s a lot more likely than ever getting ahold of a 30XX GPU in the next year or two. So I guess I’m becoming a console gamer at this late date!
Oh, that totally looks like you can, absolutely!
Now the SUPER confusing question: what if you bought an XBox Live Gold 12-month card and applied it. When you upgraded/converted to Game Pass Ultimate, would it take your months from Game Pass for PC and your Xbox Live Gold months that you just redeemed added together?
Timex
2715
It’s cool that i don’t need to worry about this until 2023.
Also, if you do upgrade to Ultimate, consider signing up for MS Rewards - you can do quizzes and Bing searches for points you can cash in for stuff like GPU months added to your subscription. I’ve never paid for Game Pass by using this.
Yep, me too. It’s a ridiculous deal at $4.19/month.
@charmtrap: Yes you can do it for $1. This is literally why I bought an XSX myself, just to mess around with and take advantage of game pass.
Sorry, I’m sure this is explained somewhere upthread, but can someone point me to instructions on how to access the EA games in my Gamepass for PC? I do not have an EA account (at least, as far as I recall).
If you have the Xbox app on your PC fully updated, you should see EA games in your list of games you can install. Pick one of them and try to install it. It should prompt you to install the EA Desktop Beta app. Once you have that installed and are signed up and stuff, you should be able to install the game using that app.
Thanks @Rock8man that worked perfectly. Turns out I did have an EA account and a password reset worked fine. Good to go!
New stuff coming and a few older games going -
find themselves entangled with some of the most frightening and deranged elements of the criminal underworld, the U.S. government and the entertainment industry
Hmmm… can’t decide if Oxford comma was intended…
I saw they were adding more touch controls, and hoped Octopath Traveler would be on the list, but nope. I started it last week, played a while, and decided it’d be an excellent thing to be able to play on my tablet, and I don’t want to use a controller. Maybe someday. I wonder if Pathways will play on my aging Surface Pro.
God dammit. I literally bought GTA V yesterday for $20. I wonder if MS will refund me?
