Ever since the dawn of time, the poor have lived without appreciation under the rule of us rich. They refuse to conform and make more, instead sitting around on their lazy behinds. They even have the nerve to walk past a product without purchasing it, leaving the sand salesmen who works on the beach without their money. These peons continue this trend by not upgrading their Xbox LIVE memberships to Gold.
Bwahahahaha! Oh, that was grand. Being serious, I wonder; why are we silver members treated like such peons?
To start, why are we barred from online play? Remember the sand salesman on a sandy beach comment? With online play free all around us, why do we have to pay for LIVE's online, even with it being on par when it comes to actual online play performance? Abandoning the Socratic nonsense, I believe we all know why; Microsoft knows that very few people would pay for the additive features themselves, such as cross chat.
Cross chat makes sense to me as one of those things you might pay for (Though at $50 a year, I think it's a rip with so many other capable communication devices that are so common these days), but it does not make sense why gold members get "early" demos.
Making it clear, these "early" demos are just a result of Microsoft restricting silver members from demos for a week or so, despite the demos often being available the same day on PSN, steam, etc.
If you're a silver member, I assume you still play single player games, correct? So how do you demo them? I'm confused; If microsoft doesn't think you're playing multiplayer games, and you aren't playing single player games.....what do they think you are do with the Xbox 360? Playing hop scotch with it? Well, okay, there was that one time, but that isn't the point.
And the cherry on top, you must have a gold membership to use Netflix. God forbid you're a person who likes single player games and movies. But again, they know they can bleed the money out of you in many ways. There's a thousand ways to skin a cat and an infinite amount of ways to sucker a sucker.
Being kept from online play? That's a grave misfortune.
Being kept from Netflix? Unfortunate, but luckily not gaming related.
Being restricted from demos for an expanse of time? That's a bunch of crap.
These are silly restrictions. If we don't pay them in TWO ways, Microsoft keeps away all of the intricate advantages of an online connection with a game console. I say, "Stop treating us like peons, microsoft. We bought the console and games just the same as the gold members did, and you must show respect by not restrict us to silly things like demos"
Dustin The Mortician
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