Halo 2 for Vista = 67% by PCG

Wrong again.

You cannot host your own games with a silver account. It's written in various Halo 2 reviews.

VOIP is Gold account only. Here are the DIFFERENCES between silver and Gold. I'm done with this thread, as you are having a hard time realizing basic concepts.

Private chat is only with people on your friends list, and not in-game like we have right now. MS is tricky with their wording. And to the common person, they probably wouldn't know the difference.

Silver Membership Features

Single gamertag

Common gamer profile

Common gamerscore

Single player achievements

Privatechat via text and voice

Common friends list and online presence

PC only multiplayer including browsing a list of active PC games

 

Go pickup the latest issue of GFW magazine and read the article starting on page 43. By looking at your profile though and how you have rated PC Games vs. others, I'm surprised you even care to begin with.

mismajor99

Maybe you are right silver members cannot use in game chat and like i said you can host dedicated servers but the game provides over 25 of them 5 of which are for gold only members. Never once said you could host a standard server. When I was playing everyone was chatting so I figured everyone could use it but I have gold so i don't know.

 Still voice chat is not something that is standard with PC games....there is still the usual in game text chat.

http://games.gearlive.com/playfeed/article/q207-top-ten-improvements-in-halo-2-for-windows-vista/

How did I rate PC games? The only PC game I gave a low rating of 6.6 is Far Cry and I have my reasons.

Microsoft doesn't write their paychecks. Ziff Davis does, and they are still CGW in many people's eyes. MS simply paid them for the name change and advertising in exchange for better circulation.mismajor99

VOIP for instance, is a GOLD "privilege" under MS's train of thought, not a silver one, but we PC Gamers have had this for a very long time.mismajor99

Our Microsoft PR contact, who has been a good sport about this article, tells us that both the free Silver and paid Gold accounts for Live on the PC will have voice chat in games. There will be no difference at all in voice functions between free and paid accounts.ExtremeTech