According to various posters on the
official Xbox forums, people taking advantage of the free one-month subscription to Xbox Live Gold will run into some
irritating problems when the service expires. Despite buying a 12-month gamecard and upgrading the account, when the
trial period was over one poster found his account reverted to Silver status; others have found all the
gamertags on their 360 changed to Silver when just one expired.Some were advised to try deleting their gamertags and then re-recovering them (losing all saved data in the process) to no avail, so we're waiting for word from Xbox on this issue. The best way to handle upgrading from a one-month trial to a full account seems to be to wait for the trial to expire, and then apply the 3 or 12 month subscription.
[Thanks, Stephen]
