Whats the difference between Gold and Silver membership?
Xbox Live membership is divided into two types–Silver and Gold. Silver membership allows you to create an online gamer profile and manage your friends list, along with accessing the Xbox Live Marketplace to download game demos, addons, Xbox Original and Xbox Live Arcade games. It also allows you to create an Xbox avatar, which you can personalize and use in several Xbox Live Arcade games. Gold membership lets gamers play online against or with other Gold membership gamers, along with enhanced friends list management and matchmaking. Xbox sometimes holds “Gold Weekends”, which offer Silver users free Gold membership for the weekend–look out for these events on Xbox.com.