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Xbox players are greeted with a full-screen pop-up ad for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III when they boot up their Xbox console
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clarky
Banned
Thats Advertising for you. You don't see adverts for blow jobs do you?
Punished Miku
Member
I got the ad. 1 button press and you're default on the $100 version.
MasterCornholio
Member
Nobody wants to see a foot fungus ad. But some need the medication.
That's how I learned that little green people live underneath your toe nail.
Edit: It's actually an ad about nail infections. Don't know if that makes it better though.
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dem
Member
I actually do just hit the skip button..
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Syphon Filter
Member
that is dumb, why not put it in the store.
Ansphn
Member
This is just the beginning. Remember when we only had one ad that we can skip with Youtube? Next it will play a video you can skip after 5 second, then it will be multiple videos, then a full video and multiple ads you can skip after 4 seconds. I hope Playstation never do this.
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AtomicStarving
Member
They really are forcing this garbage DLC down your throat huh. I'm good, not even free.
Little Chicken
Member
Very cool, I love new features and HD artwork.
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
It doesn't pop up when I boot Windows 11 or Steam OS.The future we all wanted
tmlDan
Member
To be fair, upon launch on steam you do get a popup of a bunch of ads for discounted games or new games
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Shadowstar39
Member
'They do this because people like you don't push back. I say this about a number of topics. Just because you say "meh" well they will push harder. Ads in game next. Ads between games. Anything for a buck.
Also this isn't what people signed up for. You should go right to your menu when signing in or powering on. This wouldn't fly on pc but xbox people ride Phil's dick so much they think they can do it. Just look at all the ball grease they were guzzling hoping for them to spend billions on nothing but taking a publisher away from others.
Also this defaults to buy. It would be simple for a kid to accidentally hit x 3 time and buy it because they aren't reading as kids on xbox don't read. Then it hits the stored credit card and bam, you have a game you didn't want.
But really, people need to say no to this shit.
elmos-acc
Member
If we don't allow MS to put pop-up ads in their console UI, how else are they going to compete with Sony?
This is Microsoft flexing and making a statement that they now have the most important IP. This pop-up ad is actually the most exciting piece of content seen on an XBOX fans screen in 2023. Just another sign that the acquisitions are real and show that GamePass is becoming the industry.
This is Microsoft flexing and making a statement that they now have the most important IP. This pop-up ad is actually the most exciting piece of content seen on an XBOX fans screen in 2023. Just another sign that the acquisitions are real and show that GamePass is becoming the industry.
Bojji
Member
Buy you can turn that off.
tmlDan
Member
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Next year, baybay. This is probably all they can do legally/contractually this year, since it's still got marketing rights for PS4/5.
DeaDPo0L84
Member
Xbox fanboys every time they see it:
DaGwaphics
Member
Must only be for select players, no CoD ads for me yet.
ReBurn
Gold Member
Next year we'll be arguing about everyone playing COD for a dollar and Microsoft leaving the market any day now because of it.
They really are forcing this garbage DLC down your throat huh. I'm good, not even free.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Next year sounds just like the last decade.
ReBurn
Gold Member
lol yeah war never changes
Aguero9320
Member
I feel left out. I didn’t get it…
(What a bunch of crybabies gamers have become
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(What a bunch of crybabies gamers have become
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clarky
Banned
If you have fungus go to the doctor, trust me the shit they try and sell you doesn't work.
kruis
Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
Boy, you're in luck, because that's what MS is currently investigating!
Microsoft hints at letting players watch ads for “timed slices of games”
Exec says they're "experimenting" with models beyond Game Pass subscriptions.
arstechnica.com
Since its launch in 2017, Microsoft has convinced over 25 million people to pay a monthly subscription fee to access a substantial library of Xbox Game Pass titles. For those not as interested in a monthly subscription, though, Microsoft is now floating a potential model where players could view an ad in exchange for a short period of game time.
The nod toward potential ad-supported game time comes from Xbox Corporate VP for Game Creator Experience and Ecosystem Sarah Bond, who told Rolling Stone UK that she's constantly looking to "introduce more business model diversity" for game developers.
"We’ve talked about how we’re experimenting with other models, like what does it mean for advertising in games which is more prevalent in mobile—are there models of that that work well in PC and console?" Bond said. "Are there other models where you might have timed slices of games and stuff like that?"
Bond's tease comes a few months after some Game Pass players noticed a Spanish-language survey gauging their interest in a cheaper Game Pass tier that included "advertisements before the game" (reminiscent of Netflix's recent ad-supported tier rollout). And Insider reported last year that Microsoft was working with ad agencies to "let advertisers place ads inside free-to-play Xbox games" (expanding on the current practice of ads running on the Xbox dashboard).
Microsoft's signaled interest in attaching ads to games isn't new; the company bought in-game ad network Massive in 2006 before shutting it down in 2010. That effort was part of a rising wave of in-game ad interest that crested during the early years of the millennium.
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Elysium44
Banned
Just tried it, I don't get it either. (I wasn't using standby mode.)
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HerjansEagleFeeder
Member
I'll train my dog to shit in front of your house, about 3 meters away from the entrace to your front yard. It's a total nothingburger so you'll be fine with it. Two weeks later, I'm gonna let it shit in your front yard, but somewhere far away from your way to the front door so it'll be a total nothingburger, too. Another two weeks after it's gonna shit next to your door - still a nothingburger, you can just ignore it since shit doesn't lie exactly in the way you usually take in and out of your house. Add another two weeks and shit's smeared all over your doorknob. I guess that's still a nothingburger lol, you can just use a papertowel to protect your hands when you want to get into your house. I can only imagine at what point nothingburgers stop being nothingburgers to you, maybe when the dog shits in your bed?
Sleepwalker
Member
You're correct 100%. This type of behavior by companies should be pretty much illegal. Once you pay for your console or really any sort of product, you should be able to enjoy it without these predatory tactics.
Samsung does the same thing with their TVs so I keep them offline and use third party devices for streaming purposes. On consoles this is worse because usually we have payment methods attached to our accounts.
ChuckeRearmed
Member
They have done that with Xbox Showcase, Forza and Starfield. Not a big deal. People try to outrage over that are hilarious.
Sleepwalker
Member
You don't on Steam OS. On steam the computer application it would be pretty much expected since its a storefront. You can launch steam games without launching the store iirc.
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
Activision and Microsoft, a match made in scumbag hell.
anothertech
Member
Cheezus. Take me to dinner first Xbox.
ChorizoPicozo
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