Former Xbox gamers; where did they lose you?

[only777]

I was a day one adopter of both the Original Xbox and Xbox 360, and was an Xbox Live member day one in the UK.

But it was 2009 I think and Microsoft added adverts to the console UI for things like food and clothes. I and many others complained, waited a week to see if Microsoft would walk it back, they didn't so I sold the consoles, games and cancelled my Gold subscription.

I was already starting the lean towards the PS3 anyway as Sony had finally ramped up the output quality of their games and Xbox exclusive games had started to dry up.

The adverts in the UI was the very beginning of the slippery slope of Microsoft trying to nickel and dime Xbox customers. I was furious that not only was I being asked to pay a subscription when on PS3 it was free, but on top of that payment they wanted to show commercial adverts which I found disgustingly greedy.