So's NXE

But the internet that you use to view this site is not free...

its no big deal.

the internets a medium to give you access to view the website. You dont pay VGChartz for internet access.

Seriously, anyone defending this is weak and only on the defensive. Its lame, and unnecessary to have to clutter up the dashboard in its own right....factor in the fact the majority of the people who access this area are gaming online thus they are paying MSFT for essentially no reason since everything MSFT has done for online gaming is being done on the PS3 for free then why is MSFT doing this? And please spare me "ZOMG PS3 fanboiyss" Its true. Gold members pay for servers that work the same as PS3 users for free. Bottom line.

Its not backbreaking, but its annoying and the more blind fools who act like this isnt a problem the more we will see its prevelence in the future.

It isn't cluttering up the NXE.
Use it and you'll see also NXE is free to everyone so the whole "but you're paying" argument is invalid.

Its funny. The only people who are bothered about this are non Xbox 360 owners, mostly those who own a Playstation 3.

Says the guy who favors the PS3 and probably doesn't even own a 360.  This is only a problem for non-360 owners/360 haters only.

Bottom line: Virtually every service you pay for still has ads.  Should they have ads even though your paying for their service,? no.  But is it a big deal? Not in the least.  

And without the medium (internet) you can't go on this site or any other site for that matter.  So yes technically your paying to go on this site.

Lol, I noticed the same thing.  Its actually quite pathetic.

Actually, what is really pathetic is the fact that people think that ONLY non-360 owners are the ones bothered by things like ads in a service they pay for, or paying for a service that has been free for years, since back when I played Doom 2 on the PC and Diablo 2 over Battle.net.

Get over the fanboy bullshit and realize that it isn't fanboys or PS3 only owners who think this. It is people who are accustomed to not having to pay for shit like this, especially when shit like ads are added in later on to cover the cost we assumed our subscriptions were originally covering.

For the record though I don't pay for LIVE so this doesn't bother me at all being on the NXE. I get to download my demos, games and videos without the need of a subscription so ads are fine in that sense.