Xbox Live Silver Accounts now must wait 1 week to download new content

[ameratsu]

http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2007/12/04/fyi-free-xbox-live-marketplace-content-and-silver-accounts.aspx

 

Just a reminder that if you have a Silver account, you won’t have access to free content on the the Marketplace (like demos) when they are first posted. That content will be available to Gold level exclusively for one week, after which Silver members will have access to the free content.

This is not done to annoy our Silver members—limited time exclusive access to content is just one of the many benefits of having a Gold Xbox Live account.

 

I didn't see this coming. Really, xbox live gold seems like a resonable value for some but when you take away something from the free service to "add" a bullet point to your paid service it just reeks of shadiness. Seems like there are all sorts of ways they can add to the gold service without making the free alternative worse.