Comments on: Microsoft Comments On 360 Dash Advertisements

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:25:29 +0000

Haha yeah but Foxtel is completely different story. And i understand why Foxtel has adverts.
Each channel needs to make money. Foxtel, aka Telstra, dont own every single channel. Just like – we are receiving movies a good year or so before they’re on free-to-air and sometimes less than a year after they were released (not referring to Box Office).

So each channel needs to make their money. They don’t earn their money from people paying for Foxtel. That is what Tel$tra are for.

Either way – XBL should be made cheaper. MS Points, Gold Subscription CHEAPER. Maybe not FREE but VERY cheaper!!!!

By: FatShady

FatShady — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:04:24 +0000

Agree with all points above but wanted to add this also, what about those dudes out there that forked out 240 MS points on a ‘premium theme’ once NXE came out. From what I can see there is no screen space left… Enjoy looking at the top middle 1/16th of your shiny new theme!

Ads suck. Either XBL charges $ and is ad free OR XBL free and ads included… and now that I think of it, if I have a couple of mates around and they view the ads, to I get a cut of this exposure?

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:05:22 +0000

I guess the hope is that the revenue will be used to make their servers faster/more numerous etc which would be nice…

But really who cares? It’s not like you have never seen ads on your tv before. Additionally, they don’t take up time, they are just there in the background.

By: Khuntza

Khuntza — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:12:00 +0000

Microsoft?

A) Doesn’t need the revenue.
B) Already charges me to use the service to cover their costs.
C) Best be joking.
D) Can go fuck themselves.

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By: Matfei

Matfei — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:12:40 +0000

Sorry Mr. Hryb, ads don’t enhance anything. If I need to see your ‘organically integrated’ and ‘relevant’ adverts, then you can bloody well offer me a reduced rate for XBL.

By: Stinky

Stinky — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:08:21 +0000

Hopefully they’ll get around to fixing the issues that have been munged since the “maintenance”.

By: Jules

Jules — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:21:47 +0000

Ads? YUCK! I’m bombarded with ads enough from watching TV, messing around online and being out in normal life but now I get them crammed down my throat from the Xbox? I’d be so embarassed to have friends over, turn on the Xbox and have an ad come up on my console regardless of what it is advertising.

Microsoft coninues to amaze me with their idiocy.

By: Darius

Darius — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:15:01 +0000

Of course Major Nelson tells us not to worry. He is paid to tell us not to worry. Ads should equal lower / no subscription fees. If they don’t many will be disgruntled but probably the earth wont stop spinning.

By: Klas

Klas — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:53:58 +0000

I’d assume what they are trying to say is that the ads will be exactly like the ads on Steam.

“There’s no ads on Steam!” you say? Look again.

By: f4cti0n

f4cti0n — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:41:52 +0000

I am only barely justifying paying for my xbox live subscription after getting my gaming notebook repaired, so once this ‘initiative’ starts up I’ll be giving up on Xbox Live. I work in the commercials department for a major TV network and the last thing I want to see when I turn on my console at the end of the day is more ads.

I can completely understand MS wanting to do this for silver account holders, but for those who pay for ‘gold’ access this is unacceptable.