So why are people OK with ads on the 360/One dashboard?

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VanceIX said:

wilco said:

You make it seem like your traversing the amazon to get to the games tab. Its two maybe three clicks of the d-pad and one click of the a button.  You do realize you can just ignore the ads right?

Look if your issue is that you are against the ads from a principled standpoint I get that. I agree with that. But if your reason for not liking the ads is because it makes it difficult to navigate then I think thats BS. 

For me personally, even if there were no ads I would still prefer for things to be sectioned off into their own corners where I click them when I want to see them. I don't want my games or movies or music just automatically loaded. Give me tabs for games , movies, music and if I want to expand I can navigate to that section. This is why I hate the ps4 interface. If I have played 10 games it just loads them all up like ducks in a row as soon as I boot up. That is annoying because a lot of times it keeps games that I've only borrowed and don't even have anymore directly on the main page where they are just taking up space for not reason.

When did I say I found it hard to navigate? I said that it would be nice to be able to put my own content on the homescreen and adjust it like that, instead of being met with a bunch of ads as soon as I turn it on.

Look, if you like to make Microsoft some extra cash which they don't really need, that's fine. Don't expect everyone to be exactly like you. The majority of the people in the poll just said they don't appreciate ads. I don't care if it is still easy to navigate, I already said in the OP that I paid $300 for my console and $60 more per year for network and I still got ads. Or did you not bother to read it?

You know btw, as much as I'm not a fan of the adverts being there.... it is a way that MS found ways to generate revenue from people like... Coors light for example in my picture taken about 20 mins which is then injected into their gaming bank balance, I actually like that, I'm not sure how much money comes from it but if it helps keep the department who makes games profitable... then I'm fine with that tbh.

Last year I seen a pretty sad thing advertised in the corner on my 360 dashboard, was an ad for the Xperia phone from the bond films... literally Sony paying money to MS because they have implemented the platform to advertise to gamers there, I thought that was very strange that Sony hadn't just gone and advertised it on their own systems dashboard.