Xbox 360 Membership question

[jbmagic]

Xbox 360

How much is the Silver membership compare to the gold membership?

What benifits you get with the gold membership that you don't get with the silver?

[rkmsuf]

I think jb is off his meds again.

[Grammaticus]

Silver is free and gives access to the marketplace, so you can buy stuff.

The gold is about $60 a year and you need it to play in online games.

[kingnebwsu]

Gold is $50/year if you renew it online and pay yearly. But you can buy a yearly thing from amazon.com for $40 right now.

Silver is free.

[jbmagic]

Originally Posted by kingnebwsu

Gold is $50/year if you renew it online and pay yearly. But you can buy a yearly thing from amazon.com for $40 right now.

Silver is free.

thanks

With Silver can you download demos too?

[spleen1015]

Originally Posted by jbmagic

With Silver can you download demos too?

Yes.

[rkmsuf]

Silver is free.

[SackAttack]

Silver is free, Gold is available in a variety of tiers, and online gameplay is the only difference between the two.

[rkmsuf]

Originally Posted by SackAttack

Silver is free, Gold is available in a variety of tiers, and online gameplay is the only difference between the two.

Are you sure?

[SackAttack]

Originally Posted by rkmsuf

Are you sure?

What else are you going to do on Live that you're insinuating I missed? Content download = enabled in both. There's pay content, but you pay for that regardless of which tier you use.

You can have a buddy list in both, and communicate with your buddy list via voice messages/chat or text messages with both Gold and Silver.

I'm not sure what you're hinting at.

[MikeVic]

Why was I under the impression that you could play online with others for free on the 360? Is that Live Arcade in Silver for free?

[SackAttack]

Originally Posted by MikeVic

Why was I under the impression that you could play online with others for free on the 360? Is that Live Arcade in Silver for free?

Pretty sure you can't play others online for free at all on Silver.

[Bearcat729]

From Xbox.com/Live

Silver Level


Create your gamer profile
Create and maintain a friends list
Access Xbox Live Marketplace including Xbox Live Arcade, demos, and trailers
Send and receive text and voice messages
Join in special Xbox Live Gold trial opportunities
Access massively multiplayer games

Note: Silver level requires Xbox 360 storage device and broadband connection. Xbox Live Marketplace downloads and MMO games may require an additional fee.

All the Silver level benefits PLUS:
Great online multiplayer gameplay
Exclusive Xbox Live Marketplace downloads and content
Revolutionary TrueSkill™ matchmaking
Enhanced gamer feedback
Enhanced friends list management

[MikeVic]

Originally Posted by Bearcat729

From Xbox.com/Live

Silver Level
Access massively multiplayer games

All the Silver level benefits PLUS:
Great online multiplayer gameplay

I don't understand the difference here? Don't both mean you can play online, but with Gold you have "great" gameplay...? Whatever that means?

[rkmsuf]

Silver is free.

[SackAttack]

Originally Posted by Bearcat729

From Xbox.com/Live

Silver Level


Create your gamer profile
Create and maintain a friends list
Access Xbox Live Marketplace including Xbox Live Arcade, demos, and trailers
Send and receive text and voice messages
Join in special Xbox Live Gold trial opportunities
Access massively multiplayer games

Note: Silver level requires Xbox 360 storage device and broadband connection. Xbox Live Marketplace downloads and MMO games may require an additional fee.

All the Silver level benefits PLUS:
Great online multiplayer gameplay
Exclusive Xbox Live Marketplace downloads and content
Revolutionary TrueSkill™ matchmaking
Enhanced gamer feedback
Enhanced friends list management

Multiplayer - discussed already. TrueSkill - an aspect of multiplayer being used to pad this list by Microsoft. Gamer feedback - same thing. Why would you submit feedback on somebody you can't play against?

Friends list management - I'm curious just how much more 'enhanced' it is. I haven't noticed anything special with my own, but perhaps you can be added as a silver user but can't add proactively. Or something.

And the exclusive downloads and content bit, well, I have yet to see one piece of DLC on Live that isn't available to both Silver and Gold users. Except maybe the Xbox Live Gold gamerpic they released during E3.

[Grammaticus]

Pretty much the only difference is you can play online with Gold. There are no massive multi player games available at this time so that does not apply now.

My guess is a massive multi player game will carry its own fee separate from live, hence free as far as xbox live is concerned. But I do not know that, as no massively multi player games are out on xbox now.

I think the $60 set I purchased included a headset. So, yeah $50 without the headset.

[Grammaticus]

Originally Posted by SackAttack

Friends list management - I'm curious just how much more 'enhanced' it is. I haven't noticed anything special with my own, but perhaps you can be added as a silver user but can't add proactively. Or something.

Probably because you can select people from games you recently played and send invites and add to your friends list. Again, really a part of online play. They are just separating online "perks" and line item listing them to show what you get with "online" - Its all marketing.

Bottom line, you can play againts and co-operatively with other players online with Gold and you cannot with Silver. That is all you need to know.

[SackAttack]

Originally Posted by Grammaticus

Pretty much the only difference is you can play online with Gold. There are no massive multi player games available at this time so that does not apply now.

My guess is a massive multi player game will carry its own fee separate from live, hence free as far as xbox live is concerned. But I do not know that, as no massively multi player games are out on xbox now.

I think the $60 set I purchased included a headset. So, yeah $50 without the headset.

Final Fantasy XI, sir.

[SackAttack]

Originally Posted by Grammaticus

Probably because you can select people from games you recently played and send invites and add to your friends list. Again, really a part of online play. They are just separating online "perks" and line item listing them to show what you get with "online" - Its all marketing.

Bottom line, you can play againts and co-operatively with other players online with Gold and you cannot with Silver. That is all you need to know.

Yeah, which is basically what I was saying. They show all these extra features but what it really boils down to is the multiplayer/matchmaking experience.