I recently purchased Forza 3 and damn is it a great game, but I just realised today when my gold live membership expired, that the storefront is not available to silver members. Now I have learned to accept that you need to have a gold membership to play online (even though thats stupid) but to block one of the most interesting features of the game because your not paying MS money is just plain wrong. It really pissed me off, and then later on I was reading how MS is planning on blocking third party storage devices in the next dashboard update, and considering I was planning on buying a cheaper 120gb hard drive off of Ebay, this added more fuel to my fury. Its totally absurd that a week ago I spent nearly half the amount of a 120gb drive on a external 1tb drive for my laptop, and now they are tightening their grip on the consumer. I bought the console, I bought their games, shouldn't I be able to play them fully featured without continuing to pay a fee? I really don't care about the features of Live that people laud as being worth the money, as far as I'm concerned PSN is now a superior service, simply because its free, as it should be. 
 
No i'm not a fanboy