Get Xbox Game Pass for free for up to 3 years – CNET

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate includes Game Pass and Xbox Live Gold into one subscription. Pay $1 for a month and you get up 36 months of Xbox Game Pass for free. 

Update: Originally published earlier this week, this deal is still available for now. We’ll update it to note when the $1 deal expires (which could be anytime, now that E3 is coming to an end.)

This deal seems too good to be true. But it isn’t. During E3 this week, Microsoft is running a discount — $1 instead of $14.99 — on one month of its new Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription service, which rolls Xbox Live Gold (which enables online gameplay and throws in a few free titles per month) and its Game Pass service (akin to a Netflix for games) into one subscription. But there’s a way to make it a lot better deal — and it doesn’t appear to be a glitch. You can basically get Xbox Game Pass for up to 36 months for free. 

Your account could end up looking similar to this after adding months to your Xbox Live Gold subscription.

According to Microsoft’s FAQ, “As an Insider benefit, when you join Xbox Game Pass Ultimate to give feedback, we will apply any prepaid time you have on Xbox Live Gold, Xbox Game Pass or both toward Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, up to a maximum of 36-months.”

That’s the key thing to understand: If you have an existing Xbox Live Gold subscription, whatever remaining time you have left on your Gold subscription automatically gets converted into Game Pass Ultimate when you apply the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate 1-month-for-$1 deal to your Microsoft account. 

Here’s what you get with Ultimate:

How to get the deal

The bulk of this info comes from this Slickdeals thread, but we’ve spent the past few hours trying it out on two different accounts, and it works. But there seem to be so many people taking advantage of the deal that Microsoft’s servers are having a hard time keeping up: We’ve seen some 404 pages, and we had trouble completing the second transaction.

Note that CNET may get a share of revenue from the sale of the services featured on this page, and that your mileage may vary. This deal is supposed to be available through E3 (which runs through Thursday), but Microsoft could cut off or alter the deal at any time.

With those caveats in place, follow these steps to maximize the deal. 

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Get Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for $1/month

So, again: You may have spent upward of $180, plus an extra buck. But: Based on Xbox Live Gold costing $5 a month to use versus the undiscounted Game Pass Ultimate costing $15, your savings could potentially be as much as $360 ($10 x 36 months).

Xbox servers seem to be straining under the volume

Again, this worked for us, but we had problems with the second sign-up on Monday afternoon because of heavy volume on Microsoft’s servers. (After adding the Xbox Live Gold codes in a web browser, we had to buy the $1 Game Pass Ultimate add-on on the Xbox itself, because the browser wouldn’t send us a confirmation code (“There’s a temporary problem with the service.”).

So yes, this is a little bit of a complicated deal, but if you’re an Xbox owner and already subscribe to Xbox Live Gold and plan to continue with it, it’s an easy way to get Game Pass for free for a while. Of course, you have to be willing pay out now to extend your Xbox Live Gold service to take advantage of it.

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