[Beasty]

You shouldn't need gold to use features that come in the hardware or are free on a laptop or phone/tablet.

They are limiting what you can do with a non-gold xbox one so that it will force peoples hands into buying gold, that way they can make more money on top of a $500 console. It makes no sense.

Also, I think you are overestimating the ammount of people that not only are going to buy xbone but that even play online games.