The Mass Effect 3 multiplayer demo requires you to have a Gold subscription because, well, it’s a multiplayer game and that’s how Xbox Live rolls. Not to worry. Microsoft is giving away ” a limited time Gold access” pass to everyone who downloads the demo, meaning we can all get in on the action.
http://kotaku.com/5877021/mass-effect-3-%252B-kinect-looks-like-this
No word yet on how long that “limited time” will last, but it’s likely to be a weekend pass, same as you get in a game insert or on free weekends.
No info yet on how Silver subscribers will actually get access to a Gold-only (at least for a week) demo either, so stay tuned for that.
Mass Effect 3 demo and Xbox Live update [BioWare, via NeoGAF]