Xbox Live Silver to Full Year

APGP · 21 Jan 2006 at 17:04

I've had an Xbox 360 since launch day & have recently created and XBox live Silver account which has given me Gold access for a month.
I now have been given (as a present) a 12 Month Gold account.

Do I let the months free gold account expire or do I just go on to live and update my account by adding the number on the scratch card ??

Any help appreciated.

Homer-Simpson · 21 Jan 2006 at 17:06

you can do it either way - it will just top up the time you have already

LoadsaMoney · 21 Jan 2006 at 17:11

I thought you had to wait till the silver fully expires, otherwise it takes your gold account to silver when it goes, or something like that. :confused:

Smit · 21 Jan 2006 at 17:11

Do it now

Just incase it doesn't work :eek:

and so you wont have any downtime

Zico · 21 Jan 2006 at 17:54

LoadsaMoney said:
I thought you had to wait till the silver fully expires, otherwise it takes your gold account to silver when it goes, or something like that.

There is a bug that resets your account back to Silver after using the 1 month Gold trial. I've not had any problems myself as I transfered my Xbox Live! account over from my Xbox to the 360.

If I were you, play it safe and wait for your current trail to expire and then just use the 12 month code a day after.

IceBus · 21 Jan 2006 at 19:02

Just a warning, whenever I entered my Live 12 Month Gold code, it totally replaced my 1 Month trial and I lost about 4 days of free Live.

smokedog · 21 Jan 2006 at 19:05

LoadsaMoney said:
I thought you had to wait till the silver fully expires, otherwise it takes your gold account to silver when it goes, or something like that.

Would be a long wait then. Silver accounts are free with 360 and don't expire.

Just add in the code and it will top-up any remining time you have.

Ripper · 21 Jan 2006 at 19:27

think he meant wait for the current gold trial to end, then top up again with the 12month code, thats the safe way to do it