Cant play online or multiplayer

sorry any games that have online multiplayer, will need a gold membership to play online. Silver or free memebrs cant play online at all.

The only way to play online without Gold is is their having a free Gold weekend, or you manage to snag one of those 48 hour trial cards. Other then that playing online is a no go.

Remove your profile from the console Using the steps here:
http://xbx.lv/1kQseEQ
and then >

Power cycle the console using these steps: http://xbx.lv/1ylg26E
Then sign back in and see if your able to use Xbox Live Gold features.

gold is not needed to purchase anything but some content is exclusive to gold accounts at first then it is availible to silver accounts.

Yes you need a gold membership to play the games on line.

This will show what the free and gold accounts give you and what can be used http://www.xbox.com/en-US/Live/Join