Gamers should expect to see more advertisements on Xbox Live in the time ahead. Microsoft announced this week that its first wave of NUads (short for "natural user-interface ads"), which rolled out during fall 2012, have been highly successful and additional investment in this space is planned.
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Like Pirate said, Unbelievable...
... "MS can expect less gamers to pay 50 bucks for an ads-filled Xbox Live Gold subscription!"
I won't be renewing.
You and me both bro
It doesn't add more features, it features more ads.
I wont lie, Sony does adds on the PSN too, but only when you're browsing on the store. Then again at lest the adds are related to gaming or movies and not about Fu**ing Oreo Cookies and Chevy's.
And speaking of Dashboard why did they change it so many times. Now its designed to fit with Kinect, but I liked the very first dashboard with the swooshing window panels and stuff. Now I just hate the thing. In all this gen MS is doing everything to keep me away from the next xbox. Bravo MS bravo !
I heard that Major Nelson interview on Gamertag radio after this was anounced weeks ago and he already said there will be no 'more' ads outside of the little optional box that says 'advertisement'.
Nothing else promotes anything that is not a part of Xbox Live.
Evil
Adverts are everywhere! EVERYWHERE!
Take your offended arse out of here and go and sit down on the Chill Out Step and count to 10.
Adverts!? Unbelievable . . . . . Hahaha
Listen to the radio - Ads
Magazine / Newspaper - Ads
Online - Ads
If the ads that MS were using were intrusive and obstructed the way you use the dash I could understand, but the fact you have to click on these ads to activate them undermimes your concerns.
People will bne moaning about trailers at the movies next ;)
Bingo..none of the 'real' usual suspects are offended by ads at all. But you know why they make comments pretending they are..
Evil
Nuads are interactive ads that ONCE YOU SELECT IT then you interact with it. It just means instead of getting a video, you know get to make choices and return feedback to the advertiser.
You know what is unbelievable, that I get ads even though I pay for cable TV and they pop up in my face every 10 mins and last for at least 5 mins!
And you are happy both paying for service and getting advertisements.
See how that works boy?
Yeah, but his cable service ain't as good as mine. You know there are free public channels, but almost nobody watches them!
What is ironic is the vast majority of Xbox Live Gold users probably don't complain about the fee (if they did, they would have moved over to another free service), yet the PSN users complain for them.
I don't complain about people that pay extra for "brand" name products, fancy cars that loose value and so on.
"And you are happy both paying for service and getting advertisements."
I am happy for the most part with the Xbox Live Gold service, that I pay even though I have PS3 and a PC.
The fee isn't a big deal to me, but I like the community, the interface, party/cross game chat and the apps. The ads don't bother me, and I in fact get curious on some of the ads and check them out. Some of the ads have been funny, like the Chuck Norris one with WoW, while others has been interesting with ads/movie trailers for movies.
Until I feel the competition matches up, then I will continue to pay.
But it becomes annoying when you see ads about random stuff, like Insurance, McDonald's. Stuff that I have zero interest in!! (-_-")
I don't see them. I do see a ton of ads every time I play NHL13 but none on my 360 dashboard.
I don't have cable, I just download the shows I like on my laptop and stream them to my PS3. My laptop uses firefox with the ad block+
I download songs and hardly ever listen to the radio so I pretty much never see or hear ads.
The only ads I miss are trailers for new movies but even then I occasionally visit the trailer section in the video side of the ps store or check imdb and see those.
I know my habits are far from typical so I can see why others would say this isn't a big deal but to anyone like me it would be.
I can't even knock MS for doing it though, if it makes money why stop?
And Doritos?
This new dashboard is already making Xbox's much slower to load, and I don't think any more ads are going to make it quicker. I'm sick of this crap tbh. I wouldn't mind as much if the dashboard wasn't so slow compared to older ones.
Plus, I can't immediately think of any paid service where you have to look at annoying ads. I know a lot of them are to do with games and promotions, but some are stupid. I don't want to pay over 9000 dollars for a CoD headset thanks....
But yes gold should be able to turn ads off.
I'm guessing platinum members will next gen.
Ads provide revenue to broadcasters who don’t earn money directly from their viewers / listener, in a similar manner to ‘free’ IOS and Android games. Why do MS think they can get away with serving up ads on a paid service, thereby getting two revenue streams?!?!
Since you seem to not understand, I'll break it down for you... again.
TV commercials actually PAY for the shows you watch. If a show isn't bringing the viewers, commercials aren't being seen, so the money goes away, and the show gets canceled. When you pay for cable, that money doesn't go to the production of any program you're watching... unless it's a show that's FUNDED by your cable/satellite provider. Can't think of anything that fits in that category.
On XBL, you pay for the connection to the internet you pay for. They claim that revenue goes to XBL upkeep, and they make BILLIONS from it; so why do they need ads? The purpose of the ads is to generate revenue, too.
So: unlike paying for cable or satellite- where you don't get the channels if you don't pay- paying for Live Gold gets you access to something YOU ALREADY OWN. It would be like your cable provider charging you to watch stuff you have on DVD.
And it's not enough to do that, but then they're generating revenue ON TOP of that by subjecting you to ads. I don't give a damn how unobtrusive they are.
Wanna bet they'll increase the ads and STILL raise the price of Live soon?
MS, Sony, Apple, Nintendo, Nokia, even the company people work for all all about making money. That's it. If anyone gets a chance to make an extra few £ they will take it and that's what this. Its only on the dash not in a game so what is the issue?
So what do we have here, a whiny princess with her blood related farm boy, 2 androids with artificial intelligence and a heroic Captain with a sasquatch sidekick forming alliance to bring down the evillll..... empire to a bitter end, when they realize that they are just fighting among themselves in a big family.
You get what you pay for which should be an ad free service.
I bought it to play Street Fighter 4
Now I know your lying, who buys fighters for xbox anyways!! Haha!
Anyway like said before by people a lot of things people pay for have ads. xbla still has the most content and better service. took an hour to get gow beta up on psn.
Thats to long and gow mp isnt that good. NG3 online way better
while your complaining people are actually gaming. remember that when gaming was about actually playing video games and not lurking on N4G moaning about things you don't use.
Xbox Live should be totally 'FREE' FTW!!
It's treating you to a 50 dollar a year bill.
MS is not adding many things to live to increase value of having the service and justifying paying for the thing. Instead they are decreasing by adding more ads.
Why don't u stop ads you pay or add free games like PSN plus. I don't get why people are not seeing that the 360 is more of a media hub than a gaming system. They going backwards from gaming and offering less. Stop defending this practice and maybe MS will adopt a gaming mentality more than a media one. Whenever these articles pop up it is good as it makes more gamers aware and they switch so maybe MS can see this and change. I know gamers don't love to pay for a service to play and especially twice to watch Netflix. Remember when these issues pop up it's not that it disturbs your gaming its the principle of the thing and why people lash out. The small things will eventually take over the 360 and it will become less and less of a gaming system and more of a media hub.
At this point I haven't played Xbox 360 since Halo 4 and there isn't really anything that's tempting me to buy a game for it except GTA V because most of my friends own 360s. Even at that, I will never buy another year of live, maybe 3 months. Microsoft better make Xbox Live free or cut down the price by a lot.
As for MS advertising, it doesn't bother me much currently, but I would rather not have in increase.
Jesus Christ people, do you really have nothing else to bitch about.
At least you aren't forced to watch these ads.
You have the choice to click on them.
For real.
You guys are just sad, sad people. Especially you @StrongMan. You're the most pathetic fanboy on this site. Whenever you see something Microsoft related you jump on that shit.
Grow up and PLAY THE GAMES!
This ain't politics, buddy.