Frontlines Demo – Silver Members Wait
The benefits of Gold are small to some and very small to others so I’m not sure how this bit of news will help. Silver members on Xbox Live will have to wait a week to download any free content including demos from the Xbox Live Marketplace. Content marked with a red circle and slash is content that falls under this new restriction. (image courtesy of Major Nelson)
Gold members naturally have immediate access to the new content but if you’re only sporting a Silver account, then you’ll have to wait. I know some of you know about this as it was implemented with the latest system update but I figured I’d let the rest of the world know as well. It just dawned on me after the Frontlines: Fuels of War demo was released.
So Gold members enjoy and Silver members find something else to do for a week. (smile)
December 12th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
For all the gamers that don’t want to play on line, wait 1 week to try out games you might purchase or pay 50 bucks for immediate access! You so silly Microsoft lol.
December 12th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Demos should be available to Gold & Silver members at the same time.
December 12th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
No they shouldn’t, and they haven’t been for a long time now. the update only changed so that now the Silver members can actually see the content they can’t DL.
December 12th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
I’m with Viper. Most “free content” shouldn’t be available to everyone, simultaneously. But Demo’s? If I’m a company paying MS to advertise my game, I want people to be able to play it.
Nu
December 12th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Why shouldn’t they be able to download them at the same time as Gold members, Cleric? PC gamers aren’t restricted, PSN users aren’t restricted. So why should Silver members be restricted when it comes to demos?
December 12th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
kind of agree Nu..the only people this truly hurts are devs/pubs….if the demo goes live a few days before their title launches, restrictions on the amount of people able to try it out could easily affect sales…
December 12th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
Because Xbox Live is a pay-service, it has been for 5 years, and just because they added a free version of it so that people can have a friends list and access to all the DLC for games easily, doesn’t mean they should be getting everything else for free too.
PSN is horrible and crashes every time a new demo comes out for it, that’s why it’s free.
You pay a premium when you want things first, just like first adopters when it comes to systems, except in this scenario, you don’t have to wait a year or two for the price-cut, you have to wait a week.
You can whine about it, or pay less than $50 a year for Live, cause it’s not going to change any time within the next 4 years, and probably never, (I have found deals that have made my last 3 years cost less than $50 total combined, you just have to find good deals on the 12 month cards, it’s not hard)
December 12th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
i totally agree with unscleric on this one.
December 12th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
Amen Cleric. I found a deal at Circuit City for those 13 month prepaid cards for only $35. I’m happy to pay annually for LIVE.
December 12th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Instead of limiting things that silver had from day 1, I feel they should add new features to make gold more appealing. I have gold so this really doesn’t affect me but think of the poor silver members
. All they wanna do is test a product before before they buy it and we can all agree waiting sucks lol.
December 12th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
I agree with you Cleric! I don’t mind paying for a quality service with Xbox live. As with anything else in life, a quality product, service, etc is just going to cost more. Just like the Ferarri owner knows that he has paid the premium price for the best driving experience, I know that I am paying the premium price for the best online console experience.
I would love for XBL to be free, but I do realize that Microsoft is a business and this service is not cheap to provide. Capitolism rulez!
December 12th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
i wouldn’t be opposed to adding more instead of limiting to make it look like more
December 13th, 2007 at 1:22 am
To step away from the Silver vs. Gold debate, this demo is VERY impressive!
I think the game is going to be pretty damn good. Then again, the Demo for blacksite made me drop $50 on that the week it came out, and I already sold that off!
Still, the graphics are impressive, the story line is eerily plausible, and the idea that the game is acted out by the player as a soldier, but told from the point of view of an Associated Press writer is pretty freakin’ brilliant (English major geekyness coming out!).
I love Squad Based combat games, where you don’t really have to rely on the squad or direct them. Much like Halo. You get the feeling of a large battle, lots of people fighting along side you, but you don’t have to worry about giving them orders like in GRAW or Rainbow Six. Area 51 was similar, where you could give a few orders here and there, but a lot of it, the AI handled themselves. I like that.
The graphics are certainly “this gen” – not much has been spared here, save for a bit of dynamic lighting, which might be nice… then again the level is broad daylight in a desert-city, so maybe ‘night-time’ missions will be a bit more impressive.
All in all, I’m fairly excited about what I’ve seen so far, and will certainly consider picking it up!
Nu
December 13th, 2007 at 8:42 am
Its not like live is expensive….Damn I forgot to download the new Demos…
December 13th, 2007 at 9:31 am
I heard the demo wasn’t that great. I’m going to have to try for myself.
December 13th, 2007 at 10:46 am
where demos are going to be available both on PS3 and 360 at the same time, MS may want to relax the silver restiction…
December 14th, 2007 at 8:57 am
Played it this morning OMG this game will suck if it plays like this Demo….