You Xbox Live Silver kids can get some free online going this month... but only in a handful of Xbox Live Arcade games.
"One"Xbox Live Silver members--those are the guys that don't pay Microsoft's fees for full Gold status that I would call "goldbrickers" if that wasn't so confusing--have free access to multiplayer in eight games. This is Microsoft's new "Friendship is Free" program. Don't worry, though, I'm sure they have a team of skunkworks engineers working very hard on a way to charge for friendship.
Here are the eight games that freeloaders can get into for the rest of December:
So, that's a decent variety that covers a few genres. And Aegis Wing is free, so anyone can get in on that. But also, most of these games have a pretty hefty multiplayer component. So I can't help but think that anyone who isn't already a Gold member wouldn't have bought many of these in the first place.
I'm sure that Microsoft has a series of charts and graphs hidden in a back office somewhere that would prove me wrong. It's probably on the same whiteboard as the initial plans for a "Friendship is Available For A Small Fee" program.
"One"Xbox Live Silver members--those are the guys that don't pay Microsoft's fees for full Gold status that I would call "goldbrickers" if that wasn't so confusing--have free access to multiplayer in eight games. This is Microsoft's new "Friendship is Free" program. Don't worry, though, I'm sure they have a team of skunkworks engineers working very hard on a way to charge for friendship.
Here are the eight games that freeloaders can get into for the rest of December:
So, that's a decent variety that covers a few genres. And Aegis Wing is free, so anyone can get in on that. But also, most of these games have a pretty hefty multiplayer component. So I can't help but think that anyone who isn't already a Gold member wouldn't have bought many of these in the first place.
I'm sure that Microsoft has a series of charts and graphs hidden in a back office somewhere that would prove me wrong. It's probably on the same whiteboard as the initial plans for a "Friendship is Available For A Small Fee" program.
As of right now, I don't really see a point to continue my subscription when it expires in March. I just don't play enough games online to warrant the price.. even if it is a couple bucks a month.
Its good to know that silver members can play games for free...for a while anyway, but if they where interested in playing online im sure they would have gone gold long ago.
"So I can't help but think that anyone who isn't already a Gold member wouldn't have bought many of these in the first place."
This is probably the reason for the promotion in the first place. They want to sell more copies of these games to Silver members. Maybe some of them will follow through with a Gold subscription, like those who are convinced to get Street Fighter to play online, but I don't think it's much aside from that.
Really, they just need to cut the bullshit and make it free. Give the people with active gold accounts some kind of benefit, free xbl arcade game or games to reflect the amount of time they've prepaid for.. whatever, and just make the shit free.
As crazy as it sounds i dont want Live (gold) to be free, i love the quality of the servers and the new NXE, my m8s and i use Live to communicate (me more so than a phone), and the new party update is great that i can chat with my all my mates without playing the same game. My only gripe is why does it automaticly go to the SPOTLIGHT menu when i log on why not MY XBOX like it fukin well should im paying for it dont advertise to me, i know were the fukin Marketplace is. PEACE
