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Hugna

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XBox Live is really confusing me
« on: March 07, 2011, 10:55:29 pm »

Well, with no way to see what Free users get because their site is bugged, i can't ask why i can't play online again.

You see, as a free user, i was able to play for 3 consecutive days, now in this hour, i am unable to join, because it won't let me join for online activity, so i don't know what they're doing. So i can't tell why i can't connect back to play with people online.

Does anyone know what the problem is? Because i want to get back to playing with people, but their site is bugging out.
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Re: XBox Live is really confusing me
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2011, 10:56:56 pm »

Free weekends, probably.
What game(s)?

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Re: XBox Live is really confusing me
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2011, 10:58:04 pm »

Mostly i've been playing online on Rainbow Six Vegas 2.
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Re: XBox Live is really confusing me
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2011, 10:59:59 pm »

Silver Accounts such as your own aren't allowed to play multiplayer normally. You'll probably have to start paying if you want to keep playing online.
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Re: XBox Live is really confusing me
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2011, 11:01:21 pm »

Silver Accounts such as your own aren't allowed to play multiplayer normally. You'll probably have to start paying if you want to keep playing online.

If you bought your Xbox or any of your games new, there's a reasonable chance that there are free vouchers (for a month or something like that) included. Look through your cases and paperwork you got with it.
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Re: XBox Live is really confusing me
« Reply #5 on: March 07, 2011, 11:03:20 pm »

Silver Accounts such as your own aren't allowed to play multiplayer normally. You'll probably have to start paying if you want to keep playing online.

If you bought your Xbox or any of your games new, there's a reasonable chance that there are free vouchers (for a month or something like that) included. Look through your cases and paperwork you got with it.

Theres the thing.. i got this game months behind, and i never had any sort of voucher or anything, i was just able to play online for a few days, but now it won't let me, and i keep trying to find out why.

But that free weekends thing sounds like that must've been why i could play, but i don't get why i could play from friday straight to sunday if it's only weekends, so i don't know...
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Re: XBox Live is really confusing me
« Reply #6 on: March 07, 2011, 11:11:37 pm »

I think free Gold weekends include Friday. Usually something like 10AM Friday to 12 midnight Sunday.
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Re: XBox Live is really confusing me
« Reply #7 on: March 08, 2011, 04:14:21 pm »

I made a quick check to find out the right thing on google just now to see what you're talking about. Well, this is what i found.

http://forums.xbox.com/35950624/ShowPost.aspx

And since it's saying it's the second one held since january, it's not constant. It would have been nice if it was though. But with what i hear with Microsoft in debt, i doubt they have the income right now to offer a constant free weekend. But, i'm not with the times, as it's been past a year since i've heard of it.

Well, since i got the information already, i know why i was able to get on randomly. Seemed strangely lucky to me, because i JUST got the internet on the 360 one day before the weekend event. At first i thought their service messed up, but at least i found out it wasn't.
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