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Xbox Live Silver Now Lets You Play Online Free?

ITANI | July 28, 2008 | News | XBOX 360

With the Xbox Live still having a Gold & Silver membership, it has now come to the attention of some fans with the Silver Xbox Live membership to be capable of playing online. One gamer has said that he has been capable of playing cross-platform gaming since last Wednesday night, which is evidently before the free Xbox Live weekend which began Friday at midnight.

The very same gamer has also said that he has been playing Shadowrun, Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Colonies Edition and Universe at War: Earth Assault all online for free. What makes it ironic is that he only has a silver membership.

Owen Good the article writer checked his Gamercard and it showed that he played Shadowrun online on Thursday.

Will Xbox Live become free like the PlayStation Network soon? Only time will tell.

OK, this is hard to run down exactly, because there's a Live Weekend going on right now, which means you can play online for free on Xbox Live. But reader Draco, a Silver level gamer, says that he's been playing cross-platform multiplayer games for free since Wednesday night, which precedes the Live Weekend (which started at midnight Friday.) I checked his Gamercard and, yeah, he played Shadowrun online on Thursday.

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Slumpy monkey | July 28, 2008

Xbox Live weekend which began Friday at midnight.

when the *bleep* did this happen
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  Drogo Baggins | July 28, 2008
  
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  Xbox Live weekend which began Friday at midnight.
  
  when the *bleep* did this happen
  Friday, at Midnight.
  
  [/joke]
  
  Anyways, what does this mean? That Silver Live accounts can be played on now? Or that they'll soon have that feature?
  
  I read what's above, and the link doesn't work for me(kotaku hardly ever works for me, for some odd reason), but I don't completely understand.
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Play ISDF | July 28, 2008

I've got a feeling it's cross platform and/or older games that might have this. I can't see Gears of War 2 being free to play online as soon as it came out.
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Drago Shi | July 29, 2008

I still cannot play HALO 3 with my silver,but a friend has a silver account,yet he is playing HALO 3 matchmaking as I type
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tallteen86 | July 29, 2008

I REALLY hope that eventually Silver will feature online play for all/most games sometime soon.....It would give me an extra reason to get more X-Box 360 games, than PS3 games.....
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  Seeker X | July 29, 2008
  
  Agreed, I've mostly been playing games like Dead Rising or Mass Effect because I didn't actually want to renew my subscription. I figured I'd keep the Single player exclusives for the 360 and the rest for the PS3 so far.
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  Gamesta100 | July 29, 2008
  
  That would actually give me a reason to get a 360.As cheap as XBL is, I still refuse to pay to play online.
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Supernouva | July 29, 2008

IT'S HAPPENING!!!! Just one step closer to free Xbox Live.
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JRYDER101 | July 29, 2008

it a good idea but i think when you play xbox live you get what you pay for. it fast and also reliable
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Final Blade | July 30, 2008

_{Well this is interesting. Doubt its a permanent one.}