FAQ Update Project - "Game Pass Ultimate at the best value" post, please help me add and edit this (other regions as well) to be as clear as possible.

Original from u/LocNalrune, the text below is mostly theirs.

Everything I know about Game Pass Ultimate and getting the most out of your money.

**Points ONLY**:

• Convert points to $40 credit. (36,950 points). Buy 6 month Gold: Microsoft Store 6mo $40. Add 1 month GPU +12,000 points. 48,950/7=6,993 points per month.
• 3 months of Gold = 20,000 points. Add 1 month of Ultimate for 12,000 points.20,000+12,000=32,000/4=8,000 points per month. Cost to you is 8,000 points per month.
• 6&9 Months = 40+12 & 60 +12 = 7 Months @ 7,429/month & 10 Months @ 7,200/month
• With Amazon Cards (if you have them available on your account)Buy a 12month Gold for $60 6x $10 GC= 78,000 points (63,000 points grandfathered accounts) + 12,000 points 90,000/13= 6,924 points per month (75,000/13= 5,769 points per month grandfathered accounts).

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Here is how things work:

• You might need to wait 1 day between adding Gold to your account and upgrading to GPU.
• If you have used the £1/$1 deal before do not expect to use it again. Some user's report that they have been able to use it more than once. You are lucky if this is the case, but you should never plan for this.
• Any time you do not have an Ultimate subscription, but do have subscription time in either Gold, or Game Pass, when you upgrade to Game Pass Ultimate all time for lesser subscriptions will be converted directly at a 1:1 ratio to Ultimate time.
• Upgrading lesser subscription time at the 1:1 rate does not require you to use the £1/$1 promotion, and does not require you to be new to GP Ultimate.
• The 14 day trials have worked for people to upgrade to GPU from Gold.
• If you add a lesser sub while you have Ultimate, it will be converted at a monetary value equivalency to Ultimate instead. A month of Gold is $10 (US) so is converted to 20 days of Ultimate, a year of Gold is $60 (US) so is converted to 4 months of Ultimate. I am unsure of whether these conversion rates are the same in the UK, but I feel like they should be. Link to conversion table: https://support.xbox.com/help/subscriptions-billing/manage-subscriptions/xbox-game-pass-ultimate-faq
• A year of Gold is $60 (US) £49.99 (UK), this is your best-friend. CDkeys offers a year of Gold typically for $54.59 or £49.49 (so no real savings in the UK) and 6 months for as low as $12, but they have sales that go as low as $40, and I don't know for UK.https://www.amazon.com/Xbox-Live-Gold-Membership-Digital/dp/B002VBWIP6/ref=sr_1_3
• Whenever you add any subscription to your account you should always have recurring billing turned off. Sometimes, and at this time it is unclear what the criteria are for this to trigger, as it's changed in the last 6 months... Sometimes when you add a subscription, as part of the transaction it will request for you to turn Recurring Billing on, and offer you an additional month added to this subscription.
• Recurring Billing is not connected to this additional month. You may turn Recurring Billing off immediately after processing your transaction. For this reason you should always make sure that it is turned off before before adding any subscription. Even turning it off multiple times if you are doing multiple transactions. When you are entirely finished with your subscriptions you then check to see it Recurring Billing is on or off, and set it to the setting that you desire.
• Due to all the above points, 13 Months of Ultimate costs $75 (60+15) through the Microsoft Store. In the UK that is £61 (50+11). This is by far your best deal at $5.77/£5.55, except for buying 3 years of Gold first which equates to: $195/£161 = $5.42/£4.47 per month.
• Do NOTE: that the maximum of subscription time that you can have on your account is 36 months. If you are attempting to add 3 times 1 year of Gold, then you cannot currently have any Gold on your account, and cannot accept any additional months from Recurring Billing, or you will not be able to apply the last year. Also see above, if you have any time of Ultimate it will be converted to far less than a year.

If you have any further questions or seek clarification, feel free to ask. I will try to keep this up to date, and may occasionally add timed deals that are happening.