Free Online Play for Xbox Live Silver users, limited and explained

Over the weekend we posted a rumor about Xbox Live's second class citizens having access to online play on select titles. It's not a rumor anymore, as Microsoft has confirmed that Silver level Live members can indeed have online visitation rights with their Xbox 360 buddies and not just on the weekends. It's all part of an unannounced promotion, we learned.

In tandem with the announcement that MS was "taking off the Gold-only restriction for multiplayer gaming over Games for Windows LIVE," cross platform games (Xbox 360/PC) will be free for all for a limited time, according to a Microsoft spokesperson. Get crackin' online gamers. It won't last long, they say.

That's good news but also they should of done this much sooner.

Currently having silver, that's cool, but live never should have costed a thing from the start, nor should it still.

yes free = win but it will never be free because Microsoft is so self centered they don't want people saying they just copying Sony by making it free. Which i would say if they made it free