XBL Silver Members Facing Content Lockout

Apparently it pays to be an Xbox Live Gold subscriber. According to Microsoft's Major Nelson, gamers who are only registered for the free version of Xbox Live will from now have to wait a week longer than Xbox Live Gold subscribers to access new content such as game demos.

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Why do people make threads from the new section. I mean theres comments right below the article discussing the subject, why make a whole thread about it that probably already has been made 10 times before....Blue-Sky

Not to mention XBL has been doing this for almost a year...Nice going TC. And nobody is getting locked out. They just have to wait....a whole week.

You have to wait a whole week... oh the humanity.

Just think of the poor cows who have been waiting a whole year for a AAA exclusive game and get some perspective in your life.

One week isn't going to kill anyone. So lets not overreact and start looking for the hole in the sky.Ibacai

Taken singularly, you are correct, a week isn't going to kill anyone. But what they have done is a fairly substantial abuse.

Anyway, this topic has been posted several times in the last day or so. An earlier post I made should suffice as to why this is pretty bad on Microsofts part:

What are they enticing people to upgrade with? A product? The answer is no. They are holding back demo's, which are advertisments for people to try a game and make a decision of whether or not to purchase the game.

Demo's have always been free. They should remain free.

The troubling aspect of this whole topic is complacent people. Clearly what is on display here is the control that Microsoft is exercising over video gaming. They are controlling access to demos, and leveraging something that should be completely free, to gain profit for themselves. They have strategically placed themselves in the position to command control. They are the sole provider of all Xbox content. For example, you can't just go to a developers website and download the demo like PC gaming. In essence what Microsoft is accomplishing is this: They are restricting access to the people that have bought and utlized their product under certain conditions when they purchased the Xbox. They have changed those conditions, and are using this change to try to coerce their user base into sending more money to Microsoft to get advertisments for games: demos!

Gamers should be outraged!

[QUOTE="Ibacai"]One week isn't going to kill anyone. So lets not overreact and start looking for the hole in the sky.Subcritical

Taken singularly, you are correct, a week isn't going to kill anyone. But what they have done is a fairly substantial abuse.

Anyway, this topic has been posted several times in the last day or so. An earlier post I made should suffice as to why this is pretty bad on Microsofts part:

What are they enticing people to upgrade with? A product? The answer is no. They are holding back demo's, which are advertisments for people to try a game and make a decision of whether or not to purchase the game.

Demo's have always been free. They should remain free.

The troubling aspect of this whole topic is complacent people. Clearly what is on display here is the control that Microsoft is exercising over video gaming. They are controlling access to demos, and leveraging something that should be completely free, to gain profit for themselves. They have strategically placed themselves in the position to command control. They are the sole provider of all Xbox content. For example, you can't just go to a developers website and download the demo like PC gaming. In essence what Microsoft is accomplishing is this: They are restricting access to the people that have bought and utlized their product under certain conditions when they purchased the Xbox. They have changed those conditions, and are using this change to try to coerce their user base into sending more money to Microsoft to get advertisments for games: demos!

Gamers should be outraged!

Is it fair? It depends on how you look at it. It's it business? Absolutely.

They've done this from day one.

Leave it to cows to try to find something trivial to make a big deal out of.

"They're giving you new content and adding on a bunch of new features to your box, and the download only takes a couple of seconds, BUT THEY'RE MAKING SILVER ACCOUNTS WAIT FOR A WHOLE WEEK!"

lmao.

It's probably a bandwith issue too, 10+ million consoles all updating on the same day... ouch :P

I guess they couldn't take all those "make xbox live free" mottos and decided to screw over silver users in an attempt to make gold just that bit more worth the money, it still isnt worth it.Dahaka-UK

Just go to this link. You don't even know what XBox Live fees cover.

http://console.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTIwOCwxLCxoY29uc29sZQ

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WELL LEMMINGS....you finally have two reasons to explain why you are paying for xbox live. 1) Play other people online 2) Get demos earlier GOOD JOB GUYS 50 BUX A YEAR FINALLY IS WORTH ITout0v0rder

I don't think Sony has one of these facilities for PSN. Do you?

http://console.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTIwOCwxLCxoY29uc29sZQ