To show off all its nifty and new Xbox Live features, like Facebook and Twitter, Microsoft is giving Xbox Live Silver members a free weekend of Gold service. The promotion runs from 9AM PST on Friday until 9AM PST on Monday. Major Nelson plugged:
During the free Live Weekends, all Xbox Live Silver members can enjoy: online multiplayer, Facebook, Twitter, Last.FM, Netflix, Sky Player, Halo Waypoint and 1 v 100.
While most enthusiast gamers have Xbox Live Gold accounts, a lot of casual users do not. Some of the people that would enjoy Facebook and Twitter on an Xbox 360 will try out Gold and likely sign up. Will it be a huge number? Who knows? But these trial periods are an effective way to raise numbers.
Are any of you Xbox Live Silver members, btw? I figured almost all of you would be Gold.
I WAS a Gold member, but I just didn't use my 360 enough to merit a subscription fee. Also I only have 2 other friends with 360s and they were going to buy Gold so I didn't and don't see the point. I really stopped using my 360 for anything but games when the NXE came out. I would like the choice to go back to the old format. My 360 hasn't even been turned on since the newest updates came out that have twitter and such. I will probably never buy another gold membership just because I never use any of the gold features.
…and they WEREN'T going to buy Gold….(typo)
If it makes anyone feel any better I wouldn't pay a subscription on my PS3 either. I just don't use enough features on either console, beside playing the game, to pay to play.
Speaking of Facebook and video games, I learned today that Facebook employs the Konami Code. I doubt it works on the 360, but seriously, from your PC type Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Enter and see what it does. Just refresh the page to get it to go away.
I think Twitter and Facebook are about the most useless things someone can put on a game system…Last FM however is pretty cool. I have enjoyed it today, and my 2 year old has loved the Yo Gabba Gabba music playing.
^^^
Use the arrow keys for the directions I listed.
a friend posted that last night. kinda reminds me of sunlight in a picture.
I also have the silver membership on and off because I can only afford to keep it on gold some times, and my girlfriend prefers it when I don't have gold because then I feel it is necessary to get my money's worth and play online constantly. Her xbox has the trial gold membership though for a little longer, but she would gladly pay for the gold subscription (i.e. have me buy it for her) just to play 1 V 100 when that is in season.
I will be taking advantage of this weekend to see how I like the integration. Too bad a have a huge paper and two presentations for next Tuesday, I will have to limit my usage slightly.
@N8R I saw one of my facebook friends post those directions the other day and I dismissed them as a joke until I saw that you said it too. Kinda cool, but I still like the contra code better, lol.
@ bsukenyan
It's the same code, just with enter/return instead of start and it doesn't give you 30 lives.
It also did something in Blades of Steel and one of the Castlevanias. All games made by Konami.
@N8R I like anytime when I can get extra lives. Along those lines I vaguely remember in SMB there being a place where you could keep jumping on a green turtle shell when he was pinned against a mountain, and you would get a free life for each time you hit him.
@rpad we need a coffee talk or something to post about our favorite cheats/glitches (or just known ones in general). I think that would be kinda cool sometime.