Yeah Microsoft should have given a heads up however short. However, I also don't really have any sympathy for someone with a bunch of EA codes stacked up unused.
You can only have 36 months at any point. If they gave a heads up saying they would change the rate effective tomorrow, that may spur people to go and buy codes to top off at an effective 50% discount for their already existing sub. If you were already >32 months on your account you couldn't add any anyway.
If you had a lot of sub remaining, and had a bunch of EA Play codes sitting around then that's pretty foolish given the limit and how the rate is subject to change. It just means you have to convert at the 1:1 price ratio tl like the rest of the table (I think).
This is why you load up prior to upgrading so it's 1:1 time and not converted. I think you can do 1 year EA -> buy Ultimate and it'll make it 1 year Ultimate?
Anyway, there's also eneba that sells 1 week GPU for $0.74-1.00 which is cheaper than any of this just a little time consuming.
You can only have 36 months at any point. If they gave a heads up saying they would change the rate effective tomorrow, that may spur people to go and buy codes to top off at an effective 50% discount for their already existing sub. If you were already >32 months on your account you couldn't add any anyway.
If you had a lot of sub remaining, and had a bunch of EA Play codes sitting around then that's pretty foolish given the limit and how the rate is subject to change. It just means you have to convert at the 1:1 price ratio tl like the rest of the table (I think).
This is why you load up prior to upgrading so it's 1:1 time and not converted. I think you can do 1 year EA -> buy Ultimate and it'll make it 1 year Ultimate?
Anyway, there's also eneba that sells 1 week GPU for $0.74-1.00 which is cheaper than any of this just a little time consuming.
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