3 Months Xbox Live Gold £7.49 @ CDKeys

If the GPU has finished then 3 months gold adds 3 months gold - but if you then start or restart a GPU sub then every month of gold converts 1:1

If you apply 3 months gold to an existing active GPU it extends it by 50 days

Yes just stacked 3 years worth

Buy the gold (2 at a time is the limit on CDkeys)
Redeem here redeem.microsoft.com/?wa…1.0
(you may get offered a free month if you enable reoccuring billing, it will prompt you)
(I disable reoccuring billing after EACH code, in case it pops up again)

Buy a Game Pass Ultimate code (one that DOES NOT say non - stackable) from CDkeys. It MUST be Ultimate if you want Cloud Gaming.
Redeem AFTER all the Gold has been redeemed, using the same link as above.
It'll tell you it will convert it all, you may also get offered another month for reoccuring billing.

I remember issues with doing 3 years of only gold stacking and then converting, because 3 years is the maximum. Personally I did 2 years 9 months, added 1 month GPU for, and got offered 2 months free for reoccuring billing, so 3 years total

Yes

No. It was only the £1 trial that was stopped. (edited)

Anywhere

Yes add gold 1st then ultimate

In case it's helpful to others, I tried again today, had the same issue, so I went to the customer support. No live chat option available, which surprised me, but there was a call option. It said wait time for them to call would be 61 minutes! Fortunately they called within 90 seconds. Spoke to a nice lady, she said because it was a new account and I'd redeemed 4 codes so quickly I got red-flagged as a bot or something, so now nothing would be accepted. She contacted a specialist team and said that WORST CASE in 3-5 working days I'd get an email confirmation my account was better now and I could then purchase as normal, usually it won't take that long.

I did it today with a non stackable month GPU and it converted one to one.

TBH I did not consider a non stackable might be an problem.

I probably should have. Thankfuuly it did convert.

To play games online, you need Xbox Live Gold (approx £38/year from CDKeys).
To access the games library, you need Game Pass - but GP doesn't allow online gaming.

Combined membership (both of those things), is Game Pass Ultimate - usually £10.99/month.
GP Ultimate allows online gaming + access to Game Pass library + access to EA Play game library.
(You also get 2 free 'Games With Gold', per month, but you can only play those games, for as long as your subscription is active, so they are basically just Game Pass games, which you technically 'own').

Cheapest way to get Game Pass Ult, is to buy (and activate) up to 3 years of Live Gold, then sign up for a month of Game Pass Ult, for £10.99. That will convert all of your regular Live Gold, to Game Pass Ultimate.
Total cost for 3 years, works out at £124.96 (£3.47/month), instead of the regular GPU price of £395.64!

The maximum membership is 3 years - you can't add any more than that.
If you convert straightaway, the extra month of GPU would not be added on to your sub.
Just use the regular Gold for a month, before adding/converting.

If you top up with more Gold, during your GPU membership, it converts it to GPU at a ratio.
As an example, 12 months Gold is converted to just 4 months of GPU, so you end up losing out.
Better to wait until the current subscription expires, then sign up again, with fresh Gold.

Do you add all the Gold codes first and then the Ultimate?

Yeah, stack up to three years, convert at 1:1

I bought 5x 6mths at a time and 1mth game pass ultimate. Added and now converted to 31mths game pass ultimate

Will work

same - partly tempted in case there wont be a deal around then. But will this still work ?? Who knows...

I did the conversion trick for about 15 months and after that I went to the monthly GPU keys from Gamevivo as you say, for around £1 each. I didn't have any trouble over nearly a year of doing that - possibly one code which I left for four months turned out to be dud. However when I've gone looking lately the cost has definitely drifted up past £2 lately and I think there may be a squeeze coming.

Therefore I'm strongly considering doing this for a couple of years worth because it reduces the grief.

That said, I have no time to play anything on it anyway, and all my weekly session buddies and I play from it is Grounded. It would've been nicer on all fronts to know we would love Grounded and just buy the thing, supporting the developers. I think GPU is giving me a migraine with toouch abundance anyway (I used to choose to try games that were leaving GPU soon! FOMO froth is what markets are base on)

you need to wait

Yes, it will work on any Xbox console as it's for your online account (which is not console specific)

Trouble with that is have to use a VPN and not everyone is up for that

Did you get the extra month - if so then it worked - it wont give an extra month for every code you redeem. In fact many dont get an extra month this way any more anyway.

Usually people stack all the gold they can, then start GPU which converts all the gold and at the same time turn on recurring to try for the extra month if available, and then a little later when its all working go back and turn off the recurring billing.

The idea of stacking the gold is to get as many months of gold to convert after paying for just one month of actual GPU - the £1 offer isnt around much any more. The worst thing to do would be to add some gold, start GPU, and then add more gold after as that wont convert 1:1 - so always stack all the gold before starting GPU. (edited)