What makes it special? What makes Xbox Live worth it?

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smroadkill15 said:

Plenty of reasons behind why I pay for XBL.

1. Most of my friends have it.
2. Party Chat/cross game chat is huge
3. Best downloadable game selection of the big three.
4. Able to have more than one Gold account on an Xbox.
5. Voice messages
6. Netflix; able to use stuff like voice commands
7. Cloud service
8. Background downloads
9. Every arcade game has a trial demo
10. Beacons; tells you whos playing what when. 

Wait you can't do the bolded things if you don't pay for a gold account?