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Forums - Microsoft Discussion - Xbox One has no ads on the home screen (still has content promotion)

Munkeh111 on 29 June 2013
Wright said:

I've never understood why people hated the ads on the 360.

 

80% is related to gaming. 15% is to remind you that you should get gold. Then there's a random 5%, sometimes it show games, others, movies or songs.

That's not quite true. I normally have an advert for broadband on my dashboard. It is mostly for games, but not those percentages



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Wright on 29 June 2013
Munkeh111 said:
Wright said:

I've never understood why people hated the ads on the 360.

 

80% is related to gaming. 15% is to remind you that you should get gold. Then there's a random 5%, sometimes it show games, others, movies or songs.

That's not quite true. I normally have an advert for broadband on my dashboard. It is mostly for games, but not those percentages

It may depend on the zone then. Here in Spain is as I've stated. I'm checking it now and there's one block for getting Gold at 1 Euro, a Preorder now for the Xbox One, Some kind of offer on Gears of War Judgment, something downloadable for Black Ops 2, and advertisement that is not loading and a block with a Magician that whenever I press on it, it gets me on Xbox Video and the damn thing freezes.



J_Allard on 29 June 2013

Cool I guess. The whining about ads was always way overblown imho. 90% of the ads I saw seemed to be for games or media available on the XBL service. aka, shit I might be interested in and something that is no different than any other online service. The rest might be for some stupid car or food product but it's a tiny square on my screen that I don't even have to toggle past. If it were interrupting ads like on Youtube or something, ok, bitch away and rightfully so.

But at least it gives people one less thing to complain about.



MB1025 on 30 June 2013

First world problems. Let me tell you.



Carl on 30 June 2013

Hey guys, look at our product! It doesnt have adverts on the homescreen anymore!

Apart from those adverts on the right. It has them.

This is almost as annoying as free to play games, behind a paywall.

Just be fucking honest about it.



                            

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EspadaGrim on 30 June 2013

I don't understand why people complain about the ads unless you spend most your time on the dashboard first world problems.



gooch_destroyer on 30 June 2013

Won't last long though...but if they advertise their games more and not Coke, then that's fine.



KingdomHeartsFan on 30 June 2013

Honestly I think they will comes back after a little bit, they just don't want to do it now because people have enough reasons to hate them.



smroadkill15 on 30 June 2013
MB1025 said:
First world problems. Let me tell you.

This^^^^

Advertising in TV, magazines, news papers, radio, internet then all of a sudden some advertisements on the dashboard that never takes away from the gaming experience, and people get their panties in a fucking bunch. This is one of the best examples of people bitching simple because they can. You can tell me, "But I pay for gold why should I have to see advertisements?" Everything I mentioned above also requires you to pay in some form so that argument is completely invalid.