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Adinnieken on 29 June 2013
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sniper989 said:
Adinnieken said:
sniper989 said:
content promotion seems very very similar to traditional ads imo..

As I seem to recall, Sony has a patent for standing up, waving your hands or shouting to acknowledge an ad before you can play your game.  That'll be fun.


doesn't mean that they will use it, many companies patent ideas that they will never use.

so that proves nothing.

but M$ has confirmed that content promotion (aka ads) will be on the X1, I just hope the PS4 won't have ads too..

I seem to recall people arguing that Sony would never charge for online multi-player either, yet where are we now?

To be honest, and fair, I doubt they would ever do that.  To force a third-party commercial advertisement to be viewed before playing a game would be a huge turn-off for 99.9999999999999999999% of gamers.  And that smaller percentage of those who wouldn't mind it probably like torturing kittens.

People who complain about content/feature promotion are completely unrealistic.  An online service is a business, the way for that business to generate revenue and provide more content and features is to get people to buy or use the content and features it already provides and the new ones its rolling out.  Otherwise it becomes stagnant and usage and memebership drop off.

Reddit as an example, is never stagnant.  Content aside, the subreddits are added and removed based on usage and interest.  This site too relies upon new content to draw in readers and clicks.  Not only user created content, but site generated content written by staff.    It's "advertised" by showing it on the main page and not making you search for it. 

So, yeah.  I thought the way Microsoft did advertisements on Xbox LIVE was the least obtrusive way you could do ads and likewise I thought it was one of the smartest ways as well.  Highlight a static tile and it becomes live with video.  To me, that was cool.  In some cases it might have gotten me to click on it, in others, not so much.