Xbox Live Gold downages, paid by free Arcade game?

[Firestreak]

I don't know about you guys, but I think if xbox live is down a month, they should give gold members... a free month. Giving people a free arcade game is lame, because a lot of people aren't even going to want it. From their perspective, the game's budget is worth less than all the fees they've collected for the month. From my perspective, I have no interest in Undertow at all and am not going to be able to sell it off, so it's just a totally worthless gesture. For the people who have their only real time off for Christmas and got royally screwed by gold being down when they wanted to play, a free arcade is the least MS could do... while freaking either refunding a partial payment of gold or giving people a free month.