Originally Posted by
Valmonte
XI opened up a loop whole in the whole Xbox subscriber model, you don't need gold for online play, in short they don't want developers to take advantage of this. so all online traffic must come from gold subscribers, you can see where this is going to be an issue for subscription based games.
here's something interesting about the con art at Microsoft, did you know your paying Microsoft to use your bandwidth to host there ads. in any other circumstance MS would be paying you for generating there multimillion dollar ad traffic.