I'm guessing silver members will have to wait a week for the RE5 demo?

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#1 creepy_mike
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I know that nobody here is able confirm this one way or the other, so let's turn it into a discussion. I think its bad enough that Capcom (or whoever's in charge of releasing the demo) are playing favorites between consoles by giving it to us early, but why does Microsoft (or whoever's in charge of microtransactions) have to punish half the owners of their own console?

I mean, I understand that being a silver member means I can't play online; its a decision I've made to save a bit of money and because I'm not that big on multiplayer anyway. But that should be where it ends, especially when the downloads are free. No, Microsoft, I'm not going to sign up for one month of live just so I can get this one demo a week early as part of a minor scam that effectively defeats the purpose of it being free.

Anyone else feel this way? Obviously this strategy does work if Microsoft is still doing it, so their must be people out there with opposing views on this subject.

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#2 MikeLirette
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Exactly what you said.. people will do what you don't want to do, go out and buy a month of live just to get a demo, and Microsoft makes money. It's always going to be that way as long as they make money off of it.
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#3 InsultToInjury_
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Exactly, its a money making scheme and a lame one.
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#4 great_rulo
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It's just a 20 minutes long demo, has only 2 missions, liked it, but it never raised my adrenaline like RE4 or condemned 2 did, more like a gory shooter, if you can't wait to play it via Xbox Live download search for "how to play resident evil 5 demo" in google, it's easy.
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#5 RichieTroy
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I completely agree with you. It bugs me how silver members get locked out of the downloadable stuff. I too don't play much multiplayer and therefore can't justify a gold account. Thankfully, I have a 48 hour free Gold coupon that I got with Gears 2 that I am yet to redeem, so I will probably activate that and then download the demo.
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#6 BioShockOwnz
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Have you used all 5 1-month free Gold subscriptions that you get with your Xbox 360? If you haven't, you can set up another gamertag (new email address required), then get a free month. Microsoft gives you them, so you might as well use 'em.
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#7 xfactor19990
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I completely agree with you. It bugs me how silver members get locked out of the downloadable stuff. I too don't play much multiplayer and therefore can't justify a gold account. Thankfully, I have a 48 hour free Gold coupon that I got with Gears 2 that I am yet to redeem, so I will probably activate that and then download the demo.RichieTroy
i dont believe that will work, you still have a silver account just gold online status
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#8 grafkhun
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This is Microsoft we're talking about, were you expecting lollipops and rainbows? also, you could just download the Japanese demo off the internet, burn it to a disc and play it. No modding needed and it's in English.