lesson on XBOX Live silver membership

For anyone who is unsure like I was 24 hours ago, I learned that an
XBOX live silver membership is not good enough to get online game play
with an XBOX 360, even if you paid money for that membership. It takes
a gold account. I learned this when I tried Battlefield 2: MC on my
new system and got a surprising error that mentioned a "membership
limitation" and wouldn't let me login to the EA server. It was a
"coded" error but it just meant that I needed a gold account.

Keep in mind the silver account continues to connect me to XBOX Live
on my original XBOX, it's just the 360 that requires a gold account
for online play.

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:23:13 -0000, Justin Brown - SYNACS
<jcbrown@gmail.com> wrote:

>For anyone who is unsure like I was 24 hours ago, I learned that an
>XBOX live silver membership is not good enough to get online game play
>with an XBOX 360, even if you paid money for that membership.

Huh? You paid money for Silver????
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Yes, when I purchased my Xbox they were charging for silver
memberships.

On Jun 28, 10:42 pm, Andrew <spamt...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:23:13 -0000, Justin Brown - SYNACS
>
> <jcbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >For anyone who is unsure like I was 24 hours ago, I learned that an
> >XBOX live silver membership is not good enough to get online game play
> >with an XBOX 360, even if you paid money for that membership.
>
> Huh? You paid money for Silver????
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> Andrew, contact viahttp://interpleb.googlepages.com
> Help make Usenet a better place: English is read downwards,
> please don't top post. Trim replies to quote only relevant text.
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may I ask what you paid for a "free" subscription?

"Justin Brown - SYNACS" <jcbrown@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Yes, when I purchased my Xbox they were charging for silver
> memberships.
>
> On Jun 28, 10:42 pm, Andrew <spamt...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>> On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:23:13 -0000, Justin Brown - SYNACS
>>
>> <jcbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >For anyone who is unsure like I was 24 hours ago, I learned that an
>> >XBOX live silver membership is not good enough to get online game play
>> >with an XBOX 360, even if you paid money for that membership.
>>
>> Huh? You paid money for Silver????
>> --
>> Andrew, contact viahttp://interpleb.googlepages.com
>> Help make Usenet a better place: English is read downwards,
>> please don't top post. Trim replies to quote only relevant text.
>> Check groups.google.com before asking an obvious question.
>
>

On Jun 29, 8:01 am, "Zymergy" <zyme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> may I ask what you paid for a "free" subscription?
>
> "Justin Brown - SYNACS" <jcbr...@gmail.com> wrote in messagenews:1183127131.257261.252420@o61g2000hsh.g ooglegroups.com...
>
>
>
> > Yes, when I purchased my Xbox they were charging for silver
> > memberships.
>
> > On Jun 28, 10:42 pm, Andrew <spamt...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
> >> On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:23:13 -0000, Justin Brown - SYNACS
>
> >> <jcbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >For anyone who is unsure like I was 24 hours ago, I learned that an
> >> >XBOX live silver membership is not good enough to get online game play
> >> >with an XBOX 360, even if you paid money for that membership.
>
> >> Huh? You paid money for Silver????
> >> --
> >> Andrew, contact viahttp://interpleb.googlepages.com
> >> Help make Usenet a better place: English is read downwards,
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It wasn't free when I bought my Xbox.

"Justin Brown - SYNACS" <jcbrown@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> For anyone who is unsure like I was 24 hours ago, I learned that an
> XBOX live silver membership is not good enough to get online game play
> with an XBOX 360, even if you paid money for that membership. It takes
> a gold account. I learned this when I tried Battlefield 2: MC on my
> new system and got a surprising error that mentioned a "membership
> limitation" and wouldn't let me login to the EA server. It was a
> "coded" error but it just meant that I needed a gold account.
>
> Keep in mind the silver account continues to connect me to XBOX Live
> on my original XBOX, it's just the 360 that requires a gold account
> for online play.
>

On the Xbox there was NO Gold/Silver, you either had NO Service, or you paid
for a LIVE Account. Mainly all it was good for was Online gaming anyway.
On the 360 as MOST people know by now, there's a FREE Silver LIVE service,
and a Pay for GOLD service. Really the only difference from the 2 is
Online gaming for GOLD, and I think Video Chat only for GOLD also. The
Reason for FREE Silver is to still allow users to use all the NEW features
LIVE now supports with the 360. Downloading Arcade Games, Watching TV
programs and Movies, Trailers, ect. Stuff that wasn't available with the
Xbox other then some Game Updates/Patches, mainly for Online Gaming which a
None LIVE user didn't need anyway so you weren't missing out.

The ONLY time you don't need to have a LIVE GOLD account to play online is
for any Massive Multiplayer Online games that require they're own
Subscription. So you can play that 1 game all you want. Of course it's
costing you far more money per month then a normal GOLD account for just
about every other game. GOLD works out to $4.17 a month, while these other
games are $13-$15 a month or around $156-$180 a year for 1 online game.
$50 a year is a Bargain in comparison.

I just can't believe you just NOW learned that you can't online game with a
Silver account. What planet have you lived on all these years? 6 years or
so, Online gaming on the Xbox has ALWAYS required a PAID LIVE account.
Doesn't matter what MS is calling it now.