Baby Tea said:
But you are getting a service! You get early access to certain demos (Or exclusive access in some cases), early access to certain DLC, and you get to play online. There is your premium services.
Where is the rule written that if you pay for something, you shouldn't get ads?
Probably in the same book that says 'life is fair'.
I pay to fly, ride a bus, eat a meal at a restaurant, drive my car, watch my TV, surf the internet, read a magazine, and even read a book, and there are ads for all of those. This isn't a deal breaking or revolt-inducing thing Microsoft is doing here. It's another source of revenue for a business who wants to, gasp, make money. That's the point of every business.
If they start making them like popups ads (Press X to skip this ad and load the next level), then I'd get annoyed. But if they are just a little item on the XBL dashboard that I can fly past, or a small logo in the top corner as I'm on the dashboard, then why do I care?
Come on Jump, this is sounding a little fanboyish to me. You're better then that.
Hey, I already established that I wasn't trying to be a fanboy here god damnit! Sony does this to, ironically only in the pay to use Qore thing as far as I know. Sometimes on the Playstation Store there's some "Verizon Special!" or something showing a special offer for a game or two because of a collaberation or something.
If you pay for a private jet, you don't get advertisments. It's called a "commercial" airline for a reason. And even then, there are some pre-flight services that offer premium stuff and alot of the booklets in the seat in front of you is just self-promoting stuff. And even then, those advertisments are hardly put in your face and easily ignorable if noticable at all.
Riding a bus, I'll give you that.
Driving your car, unless you turn on your radio, you don't have advertisments unless you're talking about billboards.
TV, well, there are many channels that offer advertisment-free broadcasting as well as other things (Pay-Per-View maybe? I never used that)
The internet, there are a
plethorea of websites that offer pay-to-recieve content as well as no ads. IGN, DeviantArt, and Webs.com do this right off the top of my head and I am sure I could think up more.
Read a magazine; depends on what magazine and how many ads
A book....really? Where would ads be on a book beside the publishing company, in which case that's just self-promotion.
I said it before, it's more the principle of the matter rather than the matter of the principle. Microsoft gets money from advertisments and money from Gold membership. Gold Members (obsceure Austin Power's reference FTW!) pay for exclusive content, early access, and online. They should not have to pay for an ad to be shoved in their face, something that gets them money anyway, however big it may be. I'm sure many people would pay for LIVE if it meant no ads, more than you'd think, either way Microsoft gets money and it seems like a better way to move people to gold membership however silly it may seem.