how would you feel if you turned on your PC one day to find an advert running on your Windows XP desktop which you can't turn off, just ignore or hide behind another window?

I hope this isn't the way things are going.

Look at this people.

You are paying for a service while others do not. Those people get advertisements and rightfully so.

How could you sit here and say "I could care less"? Shouldn't you be thinking more on the lines of :

"Hey! I give you money. Where is my extra perks like option to turn off ads or no ads all together?"


What is with people always settling for what you get instead of expecting more?

Of course if LIVE was free I would say "bring on the ads". Whatever keeps my online free you know?

Thanks. It doesnt change reality, you can call me names all you want but as a former 360 owner who gave up after 2 RROD's and a gamer in general it matters to me because this is setting a precedent. Online bot ads in mmo's? Cluttering my navigation? If MSFT has teh balls to charge 50 bucks a year for online access and still puts whatever they want in your dashboard whats next?

It has nothing to do with what console i own right now, because i may own a 360 again in the future, 360 owners nonchalance and instant personal attack outward at people criticizing this and calling them names, like youre doing, rather than question why a service theyre paying for that is free for PS3 users still requires ingame ads for revenue is whats troublesome.

For some reason you seem to be so invested in this fraternity like atmosphere of this gaming generation that you are simply pulling wool over your own eyes. PC gamers and game for free, PS3 users can game for free online, Wii users can game for free online yet 360 users have to pay and still get in game adverts for MSFT revenue....sorry but if no one reacts its going to spread......

The thing is, because of the PS3 being free for online functionality my main worry is the growth of this practice not me feeling sorry for people that are being taken advantage of by MSFT. But the fact that people that could directly have input that matters, or should matter, to MSFT their userbase seem to have a caveman territorial mentality on the issue and not thinking from an aspect of right and wrong and instead simply throwing their arms up in the air and saying 'hey its okay because there are similiar cases of wrongdoings so lets just let the snowball grow', is whats worrisome.

And in regards to the italicezed, im also paying gas companies to drive my car but that doesnt mean the gas companies are responsible for my problems with my car. Understand the flaw in your desperate attempt to try to justify this? Just because you cant have VG chartz without the internet does not mean the two seperate products are in bed together.

Perhaps I should create a video where I navigate the NXE through all the different areas and never interact with an ad.

What a load of bullshit.

I could understand Nintendo and Sony doing this because their services are FREE.

People who pay $50 a year, should not have to deal with ads...

Silver users, on the other hand, I can understand, because that is still free...

Maybe that will help us get better online on PSWii...

But MS is ridiculous...

wow ,I wish the XMB and Wii channels never have ads, it might not bother you but it would definitely bother me, I hope this trend doesn't pick up.

Paying for a service, yet still being subjected to ads is the rule...anything else is the exception, and as stupid as that may seem, your just gonna have to live with it cause thats just the way it is.

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 as for your bolded.  You still can't use one without the other.  And no more cherry-picking. you got that? 

Please do!

I'm angry and as soon as my gold expires I'm going to sell my 360 and keep only my PS3, I'll miss Halo, but I can survive.

No its not the way it is. There werent ads last year, there are now. Its not matter of science, its not like these things exist in this world and we should accept them as such. These are appearing because of business suits exchanging money, to dumb it down and saying "thats the way it is accept it" is what allows this to potentially turn into what the previous user said about ads on our windows desktop or ad bots in MMO's or gratuitous in game/in movie/in tv show ads or billboards popping up next to parks ruining the atmosphere and other things that detract from the experience and or immersion of the mediums we use.

Im not cherry picking anything but i guess we just disagree on how much we want our experiences altered and diminished and how you prefer to accept it and i, on the other hand, get worried at the precedent certain things set.Just different opinions on consumerism and the topic at hand which extends far beyond the in dashboard ads as a whole.