Xbox Games With Gold For February 2022: 3 Free Games Are Available Now

@Jarrkha: gunsmoke?

@bu1ld0g: GP Ult is not even 3 years old, and unless the points-to-dollar conversion is different in your country (I'm Canadian), it takes a BOATLOAD of points to pay for a few months -- even just one month -- of GP Ultimate.

Let me put it into perspective on what it takes to earn lots of points per month (3000+):

- I was actually unemployed for a long time on a 3-year GP Ult subscription (which is about to end this summer), and spent quite a bit of time playing game pass.

- I stopped using Google and made Bing my primary search engine

- I made a family account and duplicated my daily Bing quizzes and all the little stuff to earn an extra ~50+ pts per day

- I had to dedicate myself to doing the majority, if not all, of the daily/weekly/monthly game pass regular/ultimate quests, in addition to getting an achievement per day to get the extra 50 points (this is much harder to do if you only play after work or on weekends)

- Had to stick with Xbox consoles, though I preferred my PC -- even before my recent upgrade -- so I could do claim the points for the stuff I mentioned above, and also do the weekly ultimate streaks outlined in the Rewards app (which is only available on console, hence my dedication to it).

I'm honestly not quite sure how many points I earn per month, as sometimes it's a heckuva lot, and sometimes it's only about 2500 or so. There were seasons where I regenerated 25K points with no trouble at all, and other seasons where I slogged to make back another 10K points. (I've earned several hundred thousand in the last 3 years alone).

I've acquired and spent so many points that I was able to buy the $25 CAD digital store credit for 23,900 points several times (it is actually better than the discounted monthly automatic $5 credit that you can opt-in to). I used it during various sales and bought the following with it at extreme discounts (some of which have not been matched):

- RE 2 Remake Deluxe

- Nier Automata (still on GP)

- MK 11 Ultimate + Injustice 2 Legendary bundle (now both MK11 & Inj2 regular are on GP, hilariously, and the sales discounts for the bundle itself are now better than what I had paid w/ points)

- RE: Code Veronica X (hilariously, many months after I bought it, it was free on GwG, though I had already beaten it by then, and I paid literally nothing for this)

- Shadow of the Tomb Raider: DE (hilariously got this on Epic Games Store a month later for free, sigh, but I basically got this Xbox One X version free as well)

- RDR2 Ultimate Edition (paid a measly $10 for this, and due to Rockstar being stiffs, I will never get this game's ultimate edition this cheap anywhere else, esp. for the superior PC port, which I might buy anyway bc this was so cheap).

I currently have enough leftover points to pay for several more of these digital gift cards and basically buy a new AAA for next to nothing.

TLDR: if I earn and spend so many points and am still hesitant to use it to pay for GP Ult monthly subs, then so should anybody else.

@bu1ld0g: Nope, you don't even have to wait for Black Friday for $40. Go to Ebay & look up "ps plus" and you will see them hoovering around low $40 and once in a while dip below 40.

I bought them for other family members of mine who use PS4/5 online.

@bu1ld0g: I buy PS Plus every Black Friday for $40

@Jarrkha: No, I am serious you go on Ebay in the US & you find them for around $39.99-42 all the time. On Black Friday they go on sale all over for $40.

@Barighm: Loved Fell Seal! Will definitely 2nd that.