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Ads on PS4 - it'shappening.gif
- Thread starter chadskin
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Basically, this.
bigbaldwolf86
Banned
No the whats new section is a mass of squares that shows what you're friends have been playing and what trophies they got. I doubt it will used much by the majority so it's hardly a big deal
Shining Sunshine
Banned
Uuuuuh PSN has movies.
MarkMclovin
Member
What exactly did you expect from the What's New tab?
Melchiah
Member
It doesn't bother me as long as the ads stay in the What's New section, are about entertainment, and relevant to my interests, based on my usage stats as mentioned in the February event. It would bother me, if they shoved McDonald's ads, or anything unrelated to games & movies, down my throat. I'm not particularly fond of the idea of seeing music ads either, as I don't use the system for that, and they're unlikely to offer anything to satisfy my non-mainstream tastes; horror/sci-fi soundtracks, dark ambient, and underground metal.
Not an entry for a trailer to promote a recent theatrical movie release I absolutely don't care about.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Not a fan of non-gaming-related ads on consoles, but as long as they never, ever put them on the actual main menu bar I can deal with it. Keep hiding them under "What's New" if you have to do it.
NullPointer
Member
Thats not the tab the console starts on, nor is that tab a required hop between you and what you want to do next so I don't mind it really. Its the very farthest left action and only comes up if you seek it out purposefully.
That said it *is* ads, smack dab in the middle on friend updates, so its fair game. I guess MS has gotten me used to a far more annoying kind of advertising to such a degree that this seems tame. And for somebody who hates being pushed to buy things on a regular basis much less on the dashboard of my games console that's really something.
That said it *is* ads, smack dab in the middle on friend updates, so its fair game. I guess MS has gotten me used to a far more annoying kind of advertising to such a degree that this seems tame. And for somebody who hates being pushed to buy things on a regular basis much less on the dashboard of my games console that's really something.
Don't they already have ads on the What's New section & PlayStation Store on the PS3?
I'm thinking this is the first time you've touched a Ps3 or Ps4.
Gordon Shumway
Banned
Well then..glad I've never once clicked on the What's New section. Thanks for the warning, OP! If all goes as it should, I'll never see an ad I didn't ask to see. First thing I turned off on my PS3..
Tokyo Rain
Member
Both of these seems like the best way to do it.
I have no ads on my What's New
Let's be clear if what people are declaring what is showing up on What's New page as ads then Xbox has PlayStation beat by leaps and bounds in how many ads are at the system level menu...
Miggy11 sure plays a lot of Battlefield 4 for someone who only rated it 1-star.
AyaisMUsikWhore
Member
Where's the outrage!
Well given the state BF4 is in at the moment, I would rate it similarly as it's still in a pretty unstable state.... It's hard to play a broken that crashes every so often.
Everytime you launch a game (regardless of whether it just crashed/froze/closed) it posts that the player is now playing that game... So I'm guessing the 1 star and the numerous "plays" for BF4 are related to it lack stability when playing....
Pre-order CANCELED.
pharmboy044
Member
I use the what's new feature all the time. I think that's the only way to tell if a friend is broadcasting.
travisbickle
Member
Here's how they look
Is it like Facebook, where crap populates your feed because your friends are "like"ing it?
Senor Kami
Banned
Doesn't bother me. Ads don't bother me unless it's like a TV commercial and I'm locked out from accessing content I want to consume until the commercial has finished.
Noisepurge
Member
i wish i could disable my own feed actions from my feed. Not too many PS4 friends yet so its just filled by my own actions 
Dont care if ads stay there, as long as they dont invade the main menus.
Dont care if ads stay there, as long as they dont invade the main menus.symmetrical
Member
As long as I don't see Doritos and McDonald's ads, I'm good.
Killing_Joke
Member
Ads in What's New tab and PSN is store is ok. Putting them on the home UI is NOT ok.
Until they break that rule i have no reason to cry.
Until they break that rule i have no reason to cry.
symmetrical
Member
Hey stay on topic, no need to mention XBL here.
Captain Tuttle
Member
So? If true does that make his opinion or concern less valid?
Ads like this don't bother me at all.
There is none because it's absolutely non-intrusive.
Me too man. I read the thread title and though: "Great , they did it. Now I bet when you log in the background splash screen is for McDonald's or something." It's pretty relieving to read the thread and realize everyone is somehow getting upset over him scrolling to the "What's New" section, which was meant for advertising everything on the PSN store in the first place.
Just to be clear: Can you set the PS4 to not go directly to the "What's New" section on boot up, like the PS3? If you're forced to look at What's New, that's pretty lame. If you can boot the PS4 and it goes straight to whatever is in the disc tray (movie or game), then I'm totally fine with it.
The 'What's New" section has always existed as an advertising section, it's just presented differently so we will be dumb enough to actually choose to look at it. Now, with people's activity feeds there, we are even more willing to look at it. The adds suck, but at least I'm not forced to look at them initially and scroll away from them.
PoweredBySoy
Banned
I guess that's kind of what I would expect to see in the What's New tab. As long as it isn't on the main bar I don't care.
LapinAgile
Member
I pay for cable and still get commercials on live tv. Ads don't bother me much so long as the service I pay for is satisfactory.
gaming_noob
Member
At least it's not Swiffer or McDonald's ads. The Hobbit 2 is going to be amazing too.
Mistwalker
Member
This, although I wish PS+ subscribers had an option to opt-out or at least filter the content of the ads.
ElRenoRaven
Member
Yup. No problem with those. I wouldn't have had the same problem with MS either had they kept to that. They don't though. They shove ads into every menu on the system but settings and things like that.
My PS3 got an ad for Redbox Instant by Verizon under the streaming video apps. I didn't download that app, but there was the ad for it. Couldn't delete it, either. Haven't booted up the PS3 in a while, so I couldn't tell you if it was still there.
I'm sure stuff like this will come to the PS4, too.
I'm sure stuff like this will come to the PS4, too.
Not at all. It's just that the OP makes it seem like this is relatively new to the Playstation (the "itshappening.gif" part is particularly annoying) when it's not.
Not to bloody mention that he found advertising for new entertainment product under a section called "What's new".. What the hell did he expect to see there? lol.
TheLegendary
Member
Have you used an Xbox One by any chance?
It's already here...
However having the services prelisted under the TV/Services catergory of the XMB is no different then the dedicated Netflix buttons on TV remotes now days... They are there to say "Hey just to let you know we have apps for these 3rd party video services you maybe subscribed to"
Is it annoying that they are undeleteable? Sure, but they are A. not taking up any space on the system and B. shoving you toward using said services or putting them behind a paywall (ala XBL Gold)
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
I haven't seen one ad. I get more ads on PC :/
dreamer3kx
Member
They need to fix a couple things up, the whats new section, its really not much at all, they need to add more info there, also I would like for Netflix or any other video app to show up on the bar itself, its not a big deal but something small I would like, would be nice if you can remove stuff also, I dont use music unlimited or video services form Sony.