This Weekend: Free Xbox LIVE Gold For All
By - Source: Tom's Hardware US
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Another one-weekend-only deal to keep you gaming.
Microsoft’s Xtival is back and the company is almost ready to kick off 72 hours of hardcore gaming. But before they do, they want to make sure none of us miss out on the fun, which is why we’re all getting Xbox Live Gold for the weekend. Just to be clear the offer extends from midday (GMT) on May 1 until midday (GMT) May 4.*
Alright, so it’s not quite as exciting as Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2 Episode 1, Half-Life 2 Episode 2, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast, Team Fortress 2 and Portal for a tenner, but let’s not look a gift horse in the mouth, okay?
*Time zone translation: 4am (PST) on May 1 until 4am (PST) May 4.
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I could be wrong but I think it's only for existing accounts.
I think he meant the GOLD subscription. Why would you need a free weekend if you'rea already subscribing to GOLD, right?
On another note, I still say it's ridiculous of MS to charge for something that is free on PC, PS3, Wii etc etc. I don't care what people say, there is nothing free with GOLD worth the subscription fee.
I don't get it. I have an account. I just canceled my gold subscription. How can it be a "free" weekend if guys with silver accounts can't play? there would be nothing free in that deal. I'm confused.
watching tv shows and movies from netflix on xbox beats out the computer,and to view stuff you need to have a gold subscription, so that is really the only thing worth the fee to have xbox live Gold, though it should be free
I was under the impression that you had to have a Netflix account for that. Meaning it's not really free, you're just paying another company instead. Thus you need to pay Microsoft for GOLD so that you can use the subscribtion plan of another company that you already payed for. Doesn't make sense to me at all. Not to mention, half of the North American contents are nowhere to be found in the rest of the world.
The movies, series, XBL games etc. they must charge for of course, but everybody should get GOLD for free.
Not netflix streaming? Not fragging their friends into a bloody pulp?
How horrible to think people suffer so.