Free 360 content now coming to Silver members a week late

by Justin McElroy on Dec 5th 2007 10:50AM

With the PS3 constantly expanding its free online offering, the onus has been put on Microsoft to justify (or drop) its fees for Xbox Live Gold. The company has given Gold members a pseudo added value by keeping free content (demos, DLC, etc.) exclusive to Gold members for one week, after which it will be passed down like a threadbare, stained Led Zeppelin T-shirt to Silver members.

You read that right, Gold members: Your newest perk is that Silver members are getting hosed. We'll give you a moment to luxuriate in the exclusivity. Making it even sweeter, Silver members will still be able to see the content, it will just be undownloadable, a status signified by a red circle with a line through it. We Gold members will be pushing to have that symbol replaced with a picture of Bill Gates giving you the finger.

[Via X3F]

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Tags: psn, Xbox-360, xbox-live, xbox-live-gold, xbox360, xboxlive

Reader Comments (158)

Cool, stick it to the man brother!

Bleh, us poor non-multiplayers are getting shafted again. And I'd appreciate if MS lowered the price of Gold from the ~$87 it is now in Europe.

How is this news? They have been doing this for over a year? What are you going to report next, how there seems to be reports of peoples 360 breaking down and showing three flashing red lights?

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/10/30/rift-widens-between-silver-and-gold-xbla-memberships/

They have only been doing on select things up until now. With the update it's that way on everything, even stuff like the free DLC for BioShock.

It's not the cost; it's the principle.

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Well I was never really interested in online play, but golly gee whiz, now I get demos a week earlier!! Sign me up!!!

Honestly though, if someone has a silver account, it's probably because they don't think that online play is worth $50. I don't think that making them wait a week for demos is going to convince them to fork over the cash...