Xbox Game Pass Ultimate: 3 Month Membership [Digital Code]
[{'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2019', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "It does stack! If you were fooled before then you shouldn't be worried while buying this 👍"}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2020', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-4 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I guess the best way to describe Xbox Game Pass is to call it the Netflix of Video Games. The Game Pass Ultimate subscription is a combination of Game Pass for Xbox, Game Pass for PC, and Xbox Gold. “Games as a service” seems to the way things are moving now, with Microsoft committing to make their first-party games available on Game Pass on launch day, but there are some drawbacks to this approach as well.\n\nOn the surface level, Game Pass Ultimate seems like an unbeatable value, giving you access to 100+ games on both Xbox and PC, but there are some annoyances and negatives too. Firstly, there isn’t a unified way to navigate through all of your Game Pass content. Xbox games are generally handled through the Game Pass store on your Xbox. PC games are handed in the Microsoft store app and they’re often slightly buggy or lacking in terms of control customization, graphics settings, etc. Xbox Gold gives you some free games, but you need to go through a separate process to add them to your account. Games obtained through Games with Gold work a bit differently than Game Pass in the sense that they will always be available to play (they won’t ever leave the service), with the Xbox 360 titles being yours to keep no matter what and the Xbox One titles requiring an active subscription.\n\n*** Update 10/15/2020 ***\nMicrosoft has been refining the Game Pass experience since I first wrote this review. It is now easier to navigate and browse Game Pass content on both Xbox and PC. Claiming Games with Gold on Xbox no longer requires you to go through the motions of buying the game at $0.00 ~ you can just add it to your account directly. For PC, the Xbox app has been updated so that you can directly browse Game Pass content separately from the Store app. I\'ve tried a few of the "newer" offerings such as MechWarrior 5 and Outer Worlds, and they have a respectable amount of customization for graphics settings, etc. Overall, Game Pass is becoming better and better.\n\nThe second negative is that games are constantly being added and removed, though they will give you a 30 day notice before doing so. If you’re more of a casual gamer, it might not be enough time to finish the titles and if you don’t pay attention to the Xbox news channels, you might not even know a game has been removed until it fails to start. Game Pass usually doesn’t contain the add-on content, so if you bought DLC for a Game Pass title that got removed, you won’t be able to play unless you get the main game again, either in digital or physical form.\n\nWith respect to this digital code purchase on Amazon, I think it’s pretty easy. The code shows up in your email box (associated with your Amazon account) after you finish checking out. If you have any promo codes such as buy-one-get-one-free, they will also show up in your mailbox. You can redeem multiple 3-month (or whatever) pre-paid memberships and they will stack up. Personally, I go to the Microsoft Accounts site and enter these codes from the subscription management area. In the case that you’ve set up a credit card for reoccurring billing, these pre-paid membership codes will basically push your billing date back.\n\nI\'ve only bought codes like Xbox Live or Microsoft Office directly from Amazon, and I haven\'t had any issues so far.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2019', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Love this option for subscription. I got at least 10 new games that I enjoyed playing and played through. That’s just for the month alone. And it comes with Live? What a deal. ONLY DOWNFALL.. And it’s kind of a biggie.. Is that if you have regular live (like I do. I buy a yearly subscription) it is used simultaneously and will not add to the time you have live but instead still take up that month of regular live you have.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2019', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'If you have an Xbox one (or future people, if you have the next gen Xbox) you need the gamepass ultimate. Crazy value if you care about playing games more than owning them for an amazing price relative to the amount you pay. 3 months were on sale for $24 for 3 month codes during Black Friday. That a no brainer. Even at the normal price it’s a definite buy. As long as they keep adding in recent (and sometimes brand new releases) to the pass, I’ll be a subscriber.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2019', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "This is like Netflix for gaming, except the game is downloaded in full to your Xbox. I was especially surprised to get Rare Replay, which includes most of Rareware's games including Battletoads and Conker's Bad Fur Day. Yes, Nintendo games on an Xbox. I can also play Halo: Combat Evolved(Halo 1 remastered), Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, Halo 4, and Halo: Reach as part of this subscription. A great deal."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2019', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Finally I found a way to pay early. I will continue to use this so I do not have to use autopay.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2019', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I love prime deals and I love Xbox gold and game pass. Little tricky to figure out but finally realized that all I needed to do was look in my email for my code lol.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2019', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'These are normally $44 for three months. During this time around Black Friday it was offered for half price. Plus there are a lot of benefits with the ultimate membership so I believe there is good value in subscribing it. For example you can actually download games for the PC as well as for Xbox. There a good list of games that you can select from. I ended up buying around six months worth for this membership.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2020', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "I usually buy this when there are deals on these cards, cheaper than $15. Even the $15 is a pretty good price for what you get, access to a hundred games, plus discounts to game purchases. I buy the digital cards/codes directly from Amazon, and every single code has worked for me in the past year. After getting the code, go to your Xbox > Store >Redeem Code, and enter the code. There are always at least 15 big name titles, even some brand new releases included in the game pass, and I usually only spend my time trying to finish 2 or 3 games within the month. But that's still cheaper than buying the game in my opinion. Definitely worth it."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2020', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'It works, I got two 3 month digital code subscription from Amazon, then I went to xbox.com to my account and I Turned off recurring billing and proceed to use my two 3 month codes from amazon and the xbox.com page offered me 1 additional xbox game pass ultimate for free if I turn on the recurring billing when my subscription ends in november, I did that and now I have 7 months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for $45, thank you Amazon!'}]