Xbox Live Silver Accounts Now Wait a Week For Demos [Slashdot]

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1up notes a change in the way that Xbox Live Silver-level (free) memberships work. Now folks that don't pay will have to wait an additional week to get game demos. Microsoft's Xbox representative Major Nelson assures us it's not meant to 'annoy' users of the service, but to provide additional value to Gold subscribers. "When people talk about features they'd like to see added to an Xbox Live Gold subscription, dedicated servers, expanded buddy lists or separate bandwidth pipes for popular downloads are first to mind. Instead of adding features to the Gold experience, however, they're "enhancing" Gold subscriptions by continuing a practice started last summer of stripping Silver members of features and making them Gold-only."Read more of this story (http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/06/1831256&from=rss) at Slashdot.
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[Kid Ice]

Boo hoo. Another week to wait for the latest shovelware. Bioshock is the only decent demo I've played in six months. Congrats gold members!

[Slate]

This isn't "Adding value" To Gold members, It's making silver members want to upgrade to gold!

[Daria]

That's really shitty... not that I have silver but still.

[sisko]

Eh, I have silver, and this has no impact whatsoever for me to upgrade or not.