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Xbox Live Gold accounts get one-week dibs on free Marketplace content |
Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: Major Nelson, Microsoft
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It seems that the new Fall Dashboard Update has something else in store for Microsoft Xbox 360 owners besides its massive round of improvements - and it has something to do with whether or not your subscription is of the Gold Level. Yes, dear friends, after installing the fall dashboard update, your ability to immediately access new free content in the Xbox Live Marketplace will be in fact decided on whether you have a Gold Xbox Live account or not.
This surprising bit of news comes directly from Major Nelson's official website, where it was revealed that new content put up on the Xbox Live Marketplace can only be accessed by Xbox Live Gold members. Of course, this is only temporary, as Silver members will be able to access the content one week after said content has been put up.
Xbox Live Silver members trying to access such content before the one-week exclusive period will have their online shopping experience halted by a special message, saying that the item itself is only for Xbox Live Gold members only, and that they should check back again in a few days.
And while this update may seem a bit disarming for those of us with Silver accounts, Major Nelson assures that this is not done to annoy Silver members - it's merely just Microsoft giving Gold members value for their money.
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If I want to play multiplayer games, I invite people round, I don't pay to play strangers...
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and for the article, for me that isn't value for the money for gold members, is to let know silver members that u have to pay for that value...
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i'd be willing to pay twice that if i didn't need to make sure that no one was using the upstream when i want to play online.
the only issue i've ever had with live is it's p2p hosting setup, which leads to laggy games and cheating.
blizzard has shown that free online multiplayer can be done and done well.
there is no question in my mind that Live, as it is, cannot compete with a well organized and properly setup gaming service. neither sony or nintendo are even close however.
who knows maybe when we do finally see a industry wide standard console, it might open doors for more companies to offer better services...
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I personally can't be bothered paying yearly maybe a monthly though.
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