Ads Are Now On Xbox Live :-/

[valioso]

What does Home have to do with it?

Considering people have been bringing in sony's service for a few pages now.. i was just answering to a previous comments.

 

[Todd33]

every single leaked picture I saw from the home beta has an ad in it.

Considering people have been bringing in sony's service for a few pages now.. i was just answering to a previous comments.

But it was covered pages ago and it's not all that relevant...

More fundamentally, a Home comparison falls apart when you consider it is free. That's the nub of the complaint here..it's not free, yet you still see the ads.

A closer analogy would be if there was ad(s) embedded in the XMB, or the network portion of the XMB. And I'd hope that never happens given how clean the XMB is, but again, I'm not paying any subscription fees to ward that off.

 

[rbushner]

Some people are going to love this

Some dash advertisement banners will be animated and cannot be turned off

Source

It's a rumour, but usually xbox-scene is close to correct, and this is not something I would expect anyone to make up.

I can see these ads becoming very annoying. I don't really mind as long as it's gaming related, but the second I see a female hygiene product ad there, I'm cancelling my Live subscription in protest. The Axe ad was pushing it IMO.

 

[vazel]

I can see these ads becoming very annoying. I don't really mind as long as it's gaming related, but the second I see a female hygiene product ad there, I'm cancelling my Live subscription in protest. The Axe ad was pushing it IMO.

Here here!

Me paying for a service I feel should be free annoys me enough as it is.

 

[Titanio]

every single leaked picture I saw from the home beta has an ad in it.

This was addressed earlier as pointed out, but on that point specifically, you may not have been looking at all the leaked pictures There are currently no advertisements in your own private Home, only in public spaces. Although Sony is apparently open-minded about the possibility of users selling ad space in their own homes with the introduction of P2P transactions..so in an odd way, the user might even end up benefiting from advertising in Home themselves if that came to fruition.

 

[Qroach]

This was addressed earlier as pointed out, but on that point specifically, you may not have been looking at all the leaked pictures There are currently no advertisements in your own private Home, only in public spaces. Although Sony is apparently open-minded about the possibility of users selling ad space in their own homes with the introduction of P2P transactions..so in an odd way, the user might even end up benefiting from advertising in Home themselves if that came to fruition.

I think if you expect sony to allow users to "sell" ad space you're going to be in for a rude awakening. I think it's more likely that sony themselves will sell ad space in "your" home to advertisers.

Really, I can't see there being any benefit to sony or any advertiser for the user selling ad space. An advertiser paying a user for access to their home is of little benefit since you can't know how many people your ad is being viewed by. At least going through SONY they could say it's being viewed by X amount of users.

 

[vazel]

Really, I can't see there being any benefit to sony or any advertiser for the user selling ad space. An advertiser paying a user for access to their home is of little benefit since you can't know how many people your ad is being viewed by. At least going through SONY they could say it's being viewed by X amount of users.

I think it's pretty obvious Sony is going to be the in-between man. It's not like users were going to set up the infrastructure to go to the advertisers themselves.

 

[Pete Dog]

I think it's pretty obvious Sony is going to be the in-between man. It's not like users were going to set up the infrastructure to go to the advertisers themselves.

Are you thinking about user-created-content? If such a thing was going to happen the user would have to be pretty dedicated to want to have ads. Maybe. The mind boggles.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

I think if you expect sony to allow users to "sell" ad space you're going to be in for a rude awakening. I think it's more likely that sony themselves will sell ad space in "your" home to advertisers.

Good thing we can position pictures and furniture ourselves then. Advert? What advert? I've only got a big TV there...

 

[Qroach]

Good thing we can position pictures and furniture ourselves then. Advert? What advert? I've only got a big TV there...

Whats on the TV? Hmm what a nice underwear ad....