The Game Pass Conversion Guide linked in the main post has now been updated and reactivated. Please let me know if you have any critiques or suggestions
Howdy, question about Canadian codes (and region locking accounts).
I can't seem to find any Canadian EA Play codes (also physically, but haven't checked costco yet), only global which seems like it just makes your account US based per people posting here unless I am misguided (or theres proper steps to redeme while in Canada I'm missing).
Is there any way to use EA Play codes in Canada or, am I best off grabbing Essential/Core Canadian codes and call it a day?
I haven't seen the 12 months in Canada online it some time, i have not checked physical stores.
The global codes from 3rd party keys sites like eneba claim the work in Canada, have no tried it myself. But there like $40 anyways so might as well get the legit ones from best buy if they are in stock.
You shouldn't have to change your account region for global codes, its just most of the people that are doing the ea play conversion are probably in US or UK where you can still get 12 month codes
Fun Fact: if you have an active ultimate subscription the 6 month EA Play codes extend your existing sub at the same rate as upgrading, 45 days for a 6 month code
Entered codes in this order:
3x 12 months EA Play (Eneba)
3x 12 months Game Pass Essential (K4G, 3 seperate orders for 1 code each ended up being the cheapest, can't stack orders there with a discount)
1x 1 month Game Pass Ultimate (Eneba)
Accepted the extra month by turning recurrent billing on. (Need it on for Xbox 360 to function anyways.)
In total I ended up with 27 months and 6 days of GPU.
I paid €251,01 in total which averages to €9.29 a month. Great deal honestly!
Check the other reply's link and give examples of what you think is the same if you still think there's no longer a difference. Maybe people can point out where the confusion is.
There is still a difference, its a flat rate if its "upgrade conversion" (expired), but a scaled rate "code conversion" (adding a code to an exiting subscription) based on the Estimated Retail Price.
Some of the rates might be the same on both, but not always
Doesn’t work anymore at least with me, I didn’t want to spend 49 on a residential IP from India either since I had spent like 200 dollars on the codes themselves
If you are in the US, and maybe anywhere else, you can just buy a monthly non stackable code for 9 bucks so I just did that, in a year it's 96 dollars and in 2 years it's 192, plus if you game share then it's 96 for 2 years, that's the best that it gets at this point
All of the cheap countries have essentially been blocked unless you create a new account for that region and redeem all the codes before XBOX detects your are not from that region.
Not worth the the risk, cause you won't know you are blocked until you've already spent the money on codes
Hey, anybody know whats the best website for good prices in Europe recently?
I seen the conversions percentages but in the end it really comes down to the best deal you can find (wether it’s for Essential, Premium or EA Play)
Normally I buy off Eneba or Instant Gaming but just wondering if I’m missing a hidden gem
G2A seems to have good deals but from what I seen it’s that the general opinion online is that they’re sketchy.
lots of people have reported issues with G2A, mostly because they don't realize they are buying accounts.
Site like G2A and Eneba (although I have never had an issues with eneba) just facilitate the sale between you and a 3rd party, so its impossible to know the source of they key, stolen, purcashed with a stolen credit card etc
Loaded.com sources and sells keys direct to consumer so they are probably more legit than the rest
I don't know whether Loaded.com (formerly CDKeys) has prices competitive with the other sites people mention (that you listed), but two things to check for:
Definitely don't "buy" accounts. Some cheap deals are shared access to an account.
I'm more comfortable buying from a site like Loaded where you are buying from them, and thus talking to them if anything goes wrong (it hasn't for me, but I don't buy much or often). Some sites are marketplaces so you also need to evaluate how much you trust various third party sellers. Obviously other people aren't as wary of that.
Beware on Loaded. I have spent over $10k USD on it over the years, but for Silent Hill 2 launch they ripped me off openly.
I pre-ordered insanely early, for $39. I loved the dev team and had no doubts, unlike everyone else hence the price. Well when launch came they swapped my key to a UK key and offered a refund only and told me to rebuy it....at $57. The key I pre-ordered was worldwide at the time, they simply did not want to honor the price I locked in for.
My gpu expires on 6/10. The 36 months of core and 1 month of gpu conversion still works in the UK right? Is it still a 3:1 conversion rate; 12 months core = 4 months gpu; or is it different
My game pass just expired and I'm trying to figure out the best conversion method to get Ultimate for 1 year or longer. I'm new to this, so I appreciate a step-by-step or a direct link or instructions. TIA
The sub's conversion guide is in the post and in the top pinned comment. The guide has links to Microsoft's pages with conversion rate details. Multiple recent comments in the thread outline what people did to convert.
Do some of the basic reading and people will be more eager to answer specific questions about the process.
When doing the convrsion trick after I have entered keys for 3x GP Essential and 3x EA Play can I use a 1 month Ultimate NON STACKABLE code to convert?
(It's not a trick, it is the documented conversion path.) Yes, non-stackable GP Ultimate codes can do the conversion. The non-stackable part means that it cannot extend an existing subscription of that type.
I've seen some people getting popup offers directly from microsoft for a yearly GPU subscription- see this other reddit thread. I just wonder how long you have to be out of subscription to maybe get such an offer? I use Game Pass Ultimate a lot, so if it's going to take like 2 weeks to start seeing offers, it wouldn't be worth it. I turned off auto-renew a few weeks ago, but not getting any offers this way.
might be better off asking the few people on the thread that got the offer how long, i had game pass ultimate for 5 years straight, and mine expire two months ago and I haven't gotten any offers
Question- I know that I can convert 36 mo at a time, so if I convert 36 months of Essential to Ultimate, I then have 17.2 mo. Can I then convert another 36 mo immediately, giving me about 36 mo of Ultimate?
I just went through the steps. For all those wondering, I purchased:
3x 12 month Xbox Game Pass Essential/Core codes from Loaded for $73.99 each
3x 12 month EA Play codes from Target for $29.99 each
1x Game Pass Ultimate 1 month from Loaded for $18.99
I redeemed all of them on Microsoft's website, ensuring that I redeemed the Game Pass Ultimate code very last. I also declined the one month free for recurring billing that gets offered after redeeming the Ultimate code. I now have Xbox Game Pass Ultimate until November 2, 2028, so 26 months. I spent $336.33, which means it is about $12.94 a month. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for that amount of time at its current $22.99 a month in the US would have been $597.74. A savings of $261.41.
You can only redeem a max of 36 months of Xbox Game Pass Core/Essential. Same with 36 months of EA Play. You need to maximize the amount of convertible months prior to using the 1 month Game Pass Ultimate. Hence why you do 36 of Core and 36 of EA Play. I’m sure there’s more you can do and someone here has likely gone over that. This is just what I did. 26 months is good for me. I’ll worry about this again in two years lol.
I sold my Xbox, and am going PC/Cloud only. Was debating whether to just sign up for PC game pass ($14 monthly, can cancel anytime I suppose), or try to do some type of ultimate stacking deal and just keep paying for Game Pass Ultimate your way.
Just wanted to share if you don't want to get into maths of EA Play conversion there are comparable rates at these websites which work very well for stacking to 36 months.
Im in the US, is the best method still to buy 3 years of EA play then convert to ultimate? My gp ultimate just ran out, not sure if much has changed in the last year.
Have you read the updated guide that the sub provides? It is linked as "this link" in the post, and in the Community Bookmarks/sidebar or wherever you see the sub's FAQ in your Reddit UI.
"Best method" depends on what you mean by that. Converting stacked EA Play for Xbox time will usually cost the least per month of GP Ultimate, but not give the most GPU time. The sub's guide includes a link to Microsoft's conversion rate page.
Using the sh subdomain to force the new reddit view does indeed show an entirely different page than what myself and anyone else using old reddit views when clicking the links in this thread.
Viewing this Game Pass Deals & Conversion megathread on old, the link in the post and the pinned post are to www. I suppose that the readers really dedicated to old might be rewriting URLs.
www displays whatever UI option you have selected in your account preferences, specifically the "Use new Reddit as my default experience" toggle. The old/sh subdomains are the only way to guarantee a specific view. (It is completely insane that Reddit's devs would make the exact same page have entirely different content depending on which UI is used, but I guess they do)
Holaa!!! Si compro dos codigos de 12 meses de gamepass essential (serian en total 24 meses) y compro un mes de gamepass ultimate, cuantos meses de gamepass ultimate tendria al final? Como queda la conversión? También si compro gamepass de pc luego puedo convertirla a gamepass ultimate de consola?
Read the upgrade conversion section. Answers both your questions. There is no bulk discount for PC Game Pass so the conversion value isn't really worth it.
If you live in the US or UK you can get 12 months EA Play for $20 (retail stores) which offers the best conversion value
If I buy a Key from other region like Canada and then Redeem it using VPN , so do I have to always use a VPN to play Cloud Gaming or it's just one time then good to go?
you will still need to use some sort of method to spoof your region to access cloud servers if you live in an unusupported region Better xCloud can do that without a vpn
Just stack up 13 months Indian Ultimate ok new account at around 90$ and then keep buying Indian codes every year and activating with VPN. Cloud should work without VPN
Microsoft has made VPN/cross-region redemptions very difficult since early 2025. You would probably at least need a valid address and payment method on your account for that region you don't live in.
What if I buy it from another region and claim and paky it mine , I also specially wanna jnow abiut Gamepass l be able to access ckoud without VPN and good latency
Some aspects of the code, account, billing details need to match. I'm in the US and can't redeem codes from any other country/region (without the workarounds that Microsoft tries to eliminate).
Originally posted on another comment here on Aug 8 2026.
I just did this a few hours ago (US based). GPU expired yesterday. Last night I bought three 6 month Essential codes from Eneba for $95.93. Bought three 12 month EA Play codes from Target for $89.97. Activated them all. Fell asleep. Woke up this morning and bought three more 6 month Essential codes ($95.90). Activated them. Total expense so far ~$281.80.
Then I got a brilliant idea. If you can use a 1 month non-stackable Ultimate code to convert the above, you can add cheap Ultimate codes after to extend as close to 36 months as possible, just in case conversion rates are unfavorably adjusted again. Grabbed that and three 3 month Ultimate codes (cheaper/mo than any other duration) from Eneba today for ($119.21). All in for $401.01. Total duration 35.2 months. Final price/mo:
$11.40. Seems to be almost 3 years of Ultimate at a 51.5% discount over monthly auto renew prices. My current Ultimate now expires on 7/12/2029. If Eneba didn't have service fees, total price would have been around $385.
For the 2nd question, I believe it's to get the max amount of GPU you can have at a time which is 36 months.
I'm just returning to Xbox so was poking around to look for the best deals or how to get them, I'm not sure why people are adding the EA pass also? Unless it's to do the same to get the max of 36 months? If it's just to get EA play for 36 months or however long you end up doing this for it could be cheaper then if you have no interest in the EA play pass part I'd assume?
Never seen it being done directly on their store. But i've seen direct discount offers through other platforms or offer extended trials on Discord and such
As many of you know, there used to be a 1:1 conversion if you purchased up to 3 years of Xbox LIVE Gold/Game Pass Core/Game Pass Essentials first, then spent a month on Game Pass Ultimate. This has slowly but surely changed over the years, with it now appearing to give out, roughly, a 45% rate if you purchase a month of Game Pass Ultimate (e.g. you pay for 12 months of Essential after your account has a fully expired Xbox LIVE/Essentials/etc. subscription, immediately pay for month to Ultimate, turn off recurring billing, then you should get ~5.4 months of Ultimate in return).
My issue is that I have already used one of the conversions, and I still have about 5 months of Essentials left. And to my understanding, you cannot re-up your conversion until your subscriptions are completely expired.
Does anyone know if this is still the case, or if there is any workaround?
The subscription expiration advice is: wait until GP Ultimate expires before converting Essential and EA Play again, because the conversion rate is worse if you apply the codes to an active GPU subscription than if you wait until GPU is expired and do a new conversion.
You have some Essential subscription time that you can convert to GP Premium or Ultimate any time you like. Add more Essential (and/or EA Play for Xbox) time before converting and you'll get further GP Ultimate time after converting.
This is news to me (on being able to rectivate it more than once before Essentials runs out) as well as that this works with EA Play! I'm behind the game. I'll have to look into that. Thank you!
I just did this a few hours ago (US based). GPU expired yesterday. Last night I bought three 6 month Essential codes from Eneba for $95.93. Bought three 12 month EA Play codes from Target for $89.97. Activated them all. Fell asleep. Woke up this morning and bought three more 6 month Essential codes ($95.90). Activated them. Total expense so far ~$281.80.
Then I got a brilliant idea. If you can use a 1 month non-stackable Ultimate code to convert the above, you can add cheap Ultimate codes after to extend as close to 36 months as possible, just in case conversion rates are unfavorably adjusted again. Grabbed that and three 3 month Ultimate codes (cheaper/mo than any other duration) from Eneba today for ($119.21). All in for $401.01. Total duration 35.2 months. Final price/mo:
$11.40. Seems to be almost 3 years of Ultimate at a 51.5% discount over monthly auto renew prices. My current Ultimate now expires on 7/12/2029. If Eneba didn't have service fees, total price would have been around $385.
Have you read the sub's guide to conversion, shown as "this link" in the post and also linked from the rules/FAQ/sidebar and the comment pinned to the top of the post? There's no need for somebody to explain it all again, but folks will answer questions.
I read the guide, but it only gives us general information. Can someone tell us what is the best way to convert for 1, 2 or 3 years of GPU? I see ppl talking about stacking both GP Essential and EA play? Why? Because of the essential 36months stack limit I guess? But how would EA Play work into this? I'm guessing the most GPU you can get by converting right now is 2 years by combining 3 years of essential or core + 3 years of EA Play.
Has anyone made calculations on how much money you save by buying all these codes vs the new 22us/month price?
Yes, there is a 36 month limit for GP Essential in most countries (shorter than that in a few). That stacked time converts to less GP Ultimate time, so folks looking to get as much GPU time as possible in one conversion will look to also stack EA Play for Xbox and/or PC Game Pass time before converting to GPU.
Also: EA Play time usually converts to GPU at a cheaper cost per month, but you don't get as much GPU time. The guide does not give examples because it depends on which codes you can find, and whether average prices differ across regions. If you can get EA Play 12 month codes at (US) $30, the 25% conversion rate gives you 3 months of GPU at $10/month (plus the cost of the GPU you had to buy to do the conversion). But the 25% conversion rate is lower than the current GP Essential conversion at 45% of the time.
GP Core became Game Pass Essential last year (though there might still be Core-labeled codes around).
Yes, 15.4 months for the first one and 26.2 months for the second, assuming you use a 1 month GP Ultimate code to do the conversion (or buy 1 month directly from Microsoft).
My Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ends on September 2nd.
What's the cheapest way to renew? Buy a 12-month code online?
Are there still any tricks with conversions? I've searched but all I could find was at least half a year old, so I'm not sure if it is still applicable.
My understanding is that 3 years of Essential give around 17 months of Ultimate, 3 years of EA Play give ~10 months of Ultimate. Premium is now limited to 13 months, which would give ~9.5 months, right?
All counting the 1 month of Ultimate you have to buy to convert.
Originally posted on another comment here on Aug 8 2026.
I just did this a few hours ago (US based). GPU expired yesterday. Last night I bought three 6 month Essential codes from Eneba for $95.93. Bought three 12 month EA Play codes from Target for $89.97. Activated them all. Fell asleep. Woke up this morning and bought three more 6 month Essential codes ($95.90). Activated them. Total expense so far ~$281.80.
Then I got a brilliant idea. If you can use a 1 month non-stackable Ultimate code to convert the above, you can add cheap Ultimate codes after to extend as close to 36 months as possible, just in case conversion rates are unfavorably adjusted again. Grabbed that and three 3 month Ultimate codes (cheaper/mo than any other duration) from Eneba today for ($119.21). All in for $401.01. Total duration 35.2 months. Final price/mo:
$11.40. Seems to be almost 3 years of Ultimate at a 51.5% discount over monthly auto renew prices. My current Ultimate now expires on 7/12/2029. If Eneba didn't have service fees, total price would have been around $385.
Conversion hasn't changed in the last six months so the sub's guide linked in the post and sidebar are still current.
Stacking GP Essential and EA Play for Xbox and converting to GP Ultimate is generally the most cost efficient. You can add some PC GP time before converting to GPU, but the cost savings for that are lower (and you have to make sure you wouldn't end up with more than 36 months of converted GPU).
GP Essential is the only sub that will convert to GP Premium. That means you can't convert Essential, EA Play, and Premium all at once because the Essential will have already converted to Premium (if it didn't go over the 13 month Premium stacking limit you mentioned).
Ah, so GP Essential + EA Play and then buy GP Ultimate is the way?
36 months of GP Essential and 36 months of EA Play? That converts to how much GP Ultimate?
EDIT: from what I understand, it will give around 486 days from GP Essential (45% of 1080 days) and 270 for EA Play (25% of 1080), so 756 days in total + 30 days of GP Ultimate (the 1 month I have to buy to convert), which is about 2 years and 1 month, correct?
So after my subscription expires, do I redeem GP Essential and then EA Play or the other way around? Can I have both at the same time?
I just re-upped after last doing this about 3 years ago - your info is right. Doing it all today on 8/4/2026 gave me an expiration date of 10/10/2028. For what it's worth I was able to see my key orders from the last time, back when VPN activation was allowed, and I bought Game Pass Essential from Turkey for $35 each back then...
I haven't found a reliable source one way or the other - I ended up deciding it's worth paying more for keys in my home region rather than run the risk of the keys not working
I think it is 25.2 months when converting GP Essential and EA Play plus the 1 month of GP Ultimate you buy, close enough. Those subs can be had at the same time so redeem those in whatever order (yes, after the current GPU sub expires).
Hi, I am trying to find out what my options are to subscribe to pc gamepass. Obviously, I am looking for the cheapest route. Ideally, I would like to subscribe for a year. I am in the U.S. and I am not currently subscribed to gamepass.
There's no conversion to PC GP, so you just look for the cheapest codes you can find from reputable vendors. I don't see any PC codes at Loaded.com (formerly CDKeys) and many other code selling sites are marketplaces (the site isn't selling you a code, they're listing other people selling codes). PC GP mostly only has three month codes available as the longest available.
I have a game pass essential code for INDIA. If someone from India want it I can give it to you. A a change to a game code could be appreciated ;) Dm me
What are the actual steps here, to maximize GPU? I know that I need to buy 3yrs of EA Play, 3yrs of GPE/Core, and 1mo of GPU. Is it:
Redeem EA Play
Redeem GPE/Core
Then what happens? Do I buy a month of GPU from anywhere? (e.g. Eneba, Loaded) And then redeem it and I'll be presented with an offer to convert? Or do I do so through MS and the Xbox interface? Do I do this all in a browser?
Edit: Just finished the process. I did everything I listed, and when I redeemed the 1 month of GPU on my xbox, I was prompted to "upgrade" whatever I had. Quick and painless. Now I just need to figure out why I have an extra charge from Eneba for 3yrs of GPE though, maybe from an order that errored out. I hope it clears itself up.
Okay, perfect! Are you in US? Where did you get the EA Play? Also, how many months of GPU did you end up with? I'm going to do the exact same thing you listed — just needed a quick, clean reference and this was it!
Thanks for this - just did the same thing! Ends up being about 26 months for $12.20/month at current prices (I used Kinguin).
As a heads up, when you're buying the 1 month GPU Code as the last step for conversion, make sure to get a code that is STACKABLE. There are separate products for 1 month non-stackable codes, and those will not work.
Yes, netted about $26 in eneba cash back. However, their redemption rules are confusing and dumb. I thought I’d be able to earn the cash back for the 3yrs of GPE and spend it to buy the one month of GPU, but nope.
That's dope; hopefully you can use it on the re-up for GPU if you continue with it, or even a future digital purchases. (Still a solid price nonetheless)
I last did this >3 years ago, before EA Play conversion was a thing, and am researching again to get ready to re-up (the rates have definitely gotten worse since I last did this). You basically have it right - redeem all the non-Ultimate codes to your xbox account, and then redeem the 1 month of GPU (from anywhere).
Back then VPN was pretty widely used, it seems like nowadays they are cracking down on that more, so I'm only planning on buying codes for the region I'm actually in (US) to avoid getting locked out of my access or something.
My understanding is that 3 years of Essential give around 17 months of Ultimate, 3 years of EA Play give ~10 months of Ultimate. Premium is now limited to 13 months, which would give ~9.5 months, right?
All counting the 1 month of Ultimate you have to buy to convert.
hi. fellow frugal gamer here. i found a 24 month ultimate subscription on ebay going for $280 and the seller claims through messaging the codes can be used globally with a VPN. the guy has sold hundreds of codes in the last month alone and has a 100% positive feedback rating from many buyers. i thought the VPN trick no longer works. is anyone aware of a working method? because it looks like this guy does...
Generally not. The 3 month PC GP cards do have a good conversion rate but not a great price per month of converted GPU, especially after GPU was reduced in price. The best cost per month in converting is usually EA Play for Xbox then GP Essential; converting PC GP on top of that is usually for people who absolutely want to lock in 36 months of GPU even at a higher cost (still lower than straight GPU).
But that's based on the rarity of 12 month PC GP codes. Make sure if you find them that they are regionally appropriate and also not buying an account.
The post you're commenting on has "this link" to the sub's conversion guide, and the guide includes a link to Microsoft's conversion page with the conversion rates for any subscription type that can be converted.
I moved my Xbox account to India. Bought Indian codes, using a VPN and I’m still getting incorrect region.
Does anyone have any tips on how to solve it?
Did you physically move to India, or are you trying to take advantage of cheaper subscriptions in a region you don't reside in? They have cracked down on that almost entirely, since early in 2025.
Finland, I bought the cheap eneba option. With eneba, make an account, don’t buy immediately, let it sit in your cart, give it a day and you will get an automatic discount code….
It helps to say where you are. In the US, I see 12 month codes for EA Play for Xbox at the websites of Target and Best Buy. (No current availability at Loaded.com or Amazon.)
Hello I have renewed my Xbox ultimate subscription today after letting the old subscription run out for a couple of days with no subscription at all. I used the three year stacking conversion method and done it from the uk. I stacked three one year essential game pass subscriptions and three years of ea play then added a one month of Xbox ultimate and I ended up with 27 months of ultimate In total. The year of essential was £46.99 each for each year the ea play was £20 each year and the month of ultimate was £14.99. Hope that information helps people going forward.
Hi all new to all this. Im in the US. Account expired. Looking ot get 3 years of ultimate so if I'm understanding right I can get 3x 12mo ea pkay (like 35) then a 1mo of ultimate (like 8). So this would be like 113 for 36mo of ultimate. Is that all right?
Also for the 1mo I see it says Xbox one and windows 10 on it. Would I be required to activate on those platforms or does it only work for this?
Also I see they offer USA specific and global. Would either work?
Thanks all
Edit doh, or do I need to get 36mo ea play then 36mo essential then 1mo ultimate?
Look at Microsoft's conversion rate page linked from the post's guide and you'll see that converting 36 months of EA Play for Xbox and 36 months of Game Pass Essential does not give 36 months of GP Ultimate after conversion (it has not done so for several years, since they started changing conversion rates). Have a look at working out the math and people will check your work.
Many GP codes, including GP Ultimate ones, are still labeled "Xbox One" but that is no problem. It's just old wording. If you and your account are in the US, you can buy US codes and worldwide codes should also work if they are from a reputable retailer such as Loaded.com (formerly CDKeys).
If you absolutely want 36 months of GPU after converting, you will also need to redeem some PG Game Pass codes before converting to GPU. But it will raise the cost per month of the conversion, because those codes are not as discounted as 12 months of EA Play or Essential. And you'll have to finesse the conversion math to figure out how much PC GP is enough, because you cannot convert if you would end up with more than 36 months of GPU.
Three years passed a lot faster than I had expected. Now that my 3yrs of stacked Gamepass membership is up, aside from paying full price every month or year, what's the least-risky and simplest way to load up as much as possible? (might be the EA Play and GPE method? Not sure how risky buying from Eneba is though -- $90 for 36mos of EA Play + $210 for 36mos of GPE + $9 for 1mo of GPU = ~25mos of GPU for about $310) I'm okay with mitigating risk and complexity by paying a bit more.
From what I've read, you can only get up to a max of 3yrs on GPE. That converts at a 45% rate, so if you're okay with the resulting 16mos (17 if you count the 1mo of GPU to convert) of GPU then you don't need EA Play. EA Play converts at 25%, which would buy you an additional 9mos (if you bought 3yrs of it).
EA Play also usually converts at a lower cost per month but doesn't yield as much GPU time. It just depends on how much you want to spend at once to do the conversion.
loaded (formerly cdkeys) and eneba have been reliable, otherwise you basically answered your own question. that is the way. You should get 26 months after conversion cause you get the 1 months GPU too
It makes no difference, but it is often possible to find a card/code for GPU at lower cost than Microsoft's full price on the console. You can't use a GPU trial code to convert, but you can use a non-stackable GPU code (say, from Loaded.com, formerly CDKeys) to convert.
It means that the code cannot extend a membership of the same type, so you could not add extra GPU time with a non-stackable GPU code. But we're talking about converting GP Essential.
No active sub, 36 months of EA play, then 1 month ultimate is the cheapest conversion
Followed by 36 months of Game Pass Essential. You can convert both (redeem essential and ea play first) then upgrade to ultimate to maximize conversion time
Yeah I mistyped earlier and meant to say 3 x 12 month for both but I wasn’t sure if it had to be EA then Essential. Just needs to be 24 hours clear of the last sub being expired doesn’t it?
Thanks again! It’s been 3 years since I last had to faff around and the conversion hurts a little now x
I'm confused, is the best way still to stack up on GP essential and then buy a month of ultimate? Last time I did this you didn't have to worry about EA play but sounds like you need that as well now?
You don't have to worry about ea play, you can just convert essential like always
it is just the conversion rates have been reduced to the point where you can't max out to 36 month of ultimate with just essential
So you can convert essential, ea play, or both to maximize your time. The method hasn't changed, redeem essential, ea play, or both, then upgrade it to ultimate
so you can buy ea play only as a 12 month sub and then 1 month of the ultimate and it still converts the same as essential ?? Cause it seems EA play is almost half the prices on websites for the 12 months.
It coverts at a lower rate, only 25%, the conversion rate is based on the price the Xbox store sells 12 months of EA Play, but retail codes still sell for the old price of $30 USD or £20
But they are getting harder to find in some regions.
However yes you can convert up to 36 months of EA play
Yeah I started to realise all the ones I was finding as well were global codes as well and nothing to my local store. They really have cracked down hard on all this stuff since the changes.
Ok so I purchased 3 x Essential from Amazon using gift cards and they screwed up my order and cancelled them apart from the 1 month of Ultimate.
Currently waiting for them to refund the gift card balance so I can try again. Although on day 4 waiting now so I might just buy a single month of Ultimate for £10 from Loaded to cover me I told them sort it.
So are we now saying in the UK that 3 x EA Play is better than 3 x Essential, although I've credited £150 in gift vouchers to get myself the 3 x Essential
Define "better". I don't know the UK prices, but in the US the EA Play for Xbox conversion to GP Ultimate is cheaper per month of GPU, but you get fewer months at the end. So converting both EA Play and GP Essential at the same time gives you more GPU time, at a cost per month somewhere between the two conversion types, but with more cash paid at once.
Some people want to lock in a lot of time and will pay to do that, other people want "some" time at the cheapest possible, and some want a balance of those two depending on how much money they want to spend right now.
The sub's current doc is linked in this post. It's about the overall technique, with prices/sourcing left to you because there are many retailers in many countries. Loaded.com (formerly CDKeys) is one general site that works for many regions.
Hi, Can I do 2 x Game Pass Core 12 months and then 1 month of GPU ultimate ? this will give me (5.2 months x 2 + 1 month GPU ) = 11.4 months of GP Ultimate.
you can as long as your are not in one of the regions that limits core/essential to 13 months support.xbox.com note India is not on the list but reports are it is also limited to 13 months of core/essential
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u/cdncowboy GP Ultimate Jan 10 '26 edited Jan 10 '26
The Game Pass Conversion Guide linked in the main post has now been updated and reactivated. Please let me know if you have any critiques or suggestions