"Good. It should be annual. Odds are if your not signing in on a regular weekly basis your not justifying the system. If your Gold expires, GT expires with it... "
I cannot agree with this. I had a friend who has a lot of GS. He got a huge contract out of country and was extremely busy. We are talking 60-70 hours a week. When that ended he actually secured another. He ended up being out of country almost 2 years.
When he came home he did not play Xbox at all since it was such a short time. He did not actually sign in to his Xbox account for 19 months. Now that he is back and will only do local jobs he plays a lot more.
And a friend of my son actually spent over a year in the middle east active duty and never signed in. And just never signed in to Xbox. Just recently returned and started playing Xbox again.
My oldest son actually went to basic training. He was ROTC but had already signed up for National Guard and they could not get him out of basic. January-June. Well, at the very end of basic he hurt his knee. So he had passed everything except for the
last run. Missed by 37 seconds due to his knee. Just could not make pace. They did not inform the recruiter (whatever his position is) like they were supposed to. So the recruiter calls us and is talking and we informed him that he had missed the final
run. That is when we found out that after 8 extra weeks of waiting to come home they decided to recycle him for 2 weeks. My son claimed his knee was fine but he missed the run. He came home late June (almost July). Went to the doctor and he has a tear
in his knee that could need surgery. If he had kept telling them of the pain he would have received a medical "something" and it would have been 8 months longer. That would have put him at 14 months.
So I can think of a few situations where 1 year is not near enough. Sure, that is rare but no reason for 1 year. And I can understand needed to release them and 5 years is plenty and maybe overly excessive.
