New Restrictions for Xbox Live Silver Members

by JS1HUNDRED 9 Comments 2 Votes 1409 Views 06/12/2007 Back to News
Microsoft have quietly added in a few changes to Xbox Live Silver Accounts in the 'Fall Update'. If you have a Silver Account, you will now have to wait 1 week to download game demos from teh Marketplace. Giving paying Gold Members the first whack at utilising the Xbox Live Bandwidth.

Silver Members will now see a red circle with a slash through it next to any new content within its first week of being released. If you try to access it, you will see the message in the image above.

Major Nelson Says: "Limited time exclusive access to content is just one of the many benefits of having a Gold Xbox Live account".

1UP Says: "When people talk about features they'd like to see added to an Xbox Live Gold subscription, dedicated servers, expanded buddy lists or separate bandwidth pipes for popular downloads are first to mind. Instead of adding features to the Gold experience, however, they're "enhancing" Gold subscriptions by continuing a practice started last summer of stripping Silver members of features and making them Gold-only."
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Source: http://www.majornelson.com

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Looks like they really demand everyone to upgrade. Makes sense when it comes down to money and business.
i agree with what 1UP says, all it does is make gold a better option while adding very little to it
Yup, just another grab for money...
I might have to upgrade.
I found out the hard way. After the update I tried to download the new Bioshock update.

No go.

It certainly does make good business sense for Microsoft to do this. However it makes really bad business sense to do it without warning people first. That just pi$$e$ people off.

People like me.
this would have sucked if you wanted the fighters stronghold DLC for oblivion, which was free for the first week, silvers would have been scrooged
But thats fair enough Lou, free for gold members sounds better
this is not new, or is it new for our aussie accounts bcos i've been denied on my usa account since 360 live started under silver, until its opened for all.

vomit said: this is not new, or is it new for our aussie accounts bcos i've been denied on my usa account since 360 live started under silver, until its opened for all.




Yea they've been doing it since the beginning but got lazy now there really enforcing it.

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