Microsoft to "Compensate" Xbox Live Gold Members for Downtime

[gekko]

You paid $400 for the console, the Gold service you're using for free. Me? I pay $50 a year to play online, on top of the what I paid for the console long ago. Can I play online? Of course not.

I blame MS. But it's because of people like you who are on trials. Server loads are too unpredictable at this times and causes crashes... every year. Normally doesn't bother me, but I have to go back to school and won't be playing much again for a long while, so I'm not happy about the situation.