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FYI: Free Xbox Live Marketplace content and Silver accounts



Just a reminder that if you have a Silver account, you won’t have access to free content on the the Marketplace (like demos) when they are first posted. That content will be available to Gold level exclusively for one week,  after which Silver members will have access to the free content.

The Fall update has a special message (above) to reflect this as well. If you have a Silver account and you see a piece of content that has a red circle with a slash through it (like the ‘Ryan Industries Plasmids and Gene Tonics’ content above) you’ll have to wait until a week after the content is released to access it.

This is not done to annoy our Silver members—limited time exclusive access to content is just one of the many benefits of having a Gold Xbox Live account.

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I don't understand silver account member just buy a gold account..it doesn't cost very much for a year.

December 4, 2007 12:59 PM [Direct Link]
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"This is not done to annoy our Silver members—limited time exclusive access to content is just one of the many benefits of having a Gold Xbox Live account. "

Um...that sounds exactly like you're just doing it to annoy Silver members into upgrading to Gold.  Especially since it wasn't like this from the beginning.

December 4, 2007 1:43 PM [Direct Link]
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Anyone else having problems with Xbox.com? It isnt loading for me.

December 4, 2007 1:43 PM [Direct Link]
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finally! i feel like im actully paying for something. best dash update ever. much better than springs useless one. divx/xvid for the win!!!!!!!

December 4, 2007 1:45 PM [Direct Link]
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Thanks for the clarification.

December 4, 2007 1:46 PM [Direct Link]
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Sorry for being off topic. But whats up with the servers ?  COD4 is again unplayable tonight. Thisis going on for weeks now. Not very nice while we still need to pay for playing online, which is often not possible.....

December 4, 2007 1:46 PM [Direct Link]
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Who would have thought, paying members getting benefits over non-paying members.....

It's like NZ$6 a month or something, a great deal in anyones books. Something to complain about is the cost of Broadband here in NZ! Basically cost me an extra NZ$20 in bandwidth to download Psychonauts!! And the download speeds suck!!

How about MS and the ISP's doing a deal to allow content from MS servers to be cheaper or even free (Bandwith wise)!  

December 4, 2007 1:47 PM [Direct Link]
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When was this policy enacted?  I certainly don't remember for the Bioshock demo when it was released.  I was silver then, and I got it right when it was put up.

December 4, 2007 1:47 PM [Direct Link]
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I guess this is to make us buy a gold account if you don't have one already.

December 4, 2007 1:48 PM [Direct Link]
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Nice extra perk for Gold Members.  (Ok, it's hard to keep a straight face with that word so I'll just move on.) To the outcry of: "That's not fair!" I say: "It's a week."

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