Wow did you all peep the name of the source TheXplodingbarrell LOL!!!!

That is Xtremely funny!

They're not called M$ for nothing you know.

I am a sony fan. But your right this site only seems to be getting negative on Xbox 360. Its not actally a good feeling see people put down just because of their choices. Xbox its a great machine just get over it!

well over the pass 5 years i dont ever recall seeing any adds on my xbox blade. Lately i'm been on the psn network but just to double check i logged in and guess what there are no adds. I guess this is just another post from a dilusional fan boy? Wow adds really complaining about adds, pathetic if you ask me. Also pathetic to those morons in here saying blah blah and you pay for that lol. I'm just glad that Rice has her head in the toilet for this one.

*bursts out laughing and falls off chair*
I'm sorry but things are not going so well for the 360 camp.

because the only thing microsoft cares about is making money in any way they can

The more revenue made from xboxlive means the more money goes back in to live.Sony is just trying to keep up

its a valid question, why the hell is there ads? the first time i saw ads on my xbl window i got really mad. I bought a PVR so i could skip ads on tv, i didnt expect ads to be thrusted into my face when i turn on my game console, that is ridiculous.
i hope my ps3 never gets ads but im pretty sure the way things are going there will be so many ads in games that it wont matter.

This is it! I'm not gonna renew my subscription on Xbox Live. I think I'll stick to my PS3 for now.

Only Microslaves are delusional enough not to comprehend that Xbox Live is the worst piece of garbage ever presented to the gaming industry. Dark Sniper received better service when he had Sega Channel and Xband in the 90's. The filth that riddles Xbox Live is very unnecessary and should be repaired immediately.

Xbox Live is one of the reasons why Microsoft will never gain the respect that Sony has. They're nothing more than extortionists who constantly find ways to rip off consumers for their hard earned money. Microslaves are incoherent to these facts as they allow themselves to be controlled by this satanic gaming console which makes all Xbox 360 owners the demonseeds of gaming.

Dark Sniper purchased his PLAYSTATION®3 at no hesitation because he knew he was getting the best online service in the history of videogaming. Just one of many factors on why PLAYSTATION®3 has no equal when it comes to quality and service.

$niper

I think it's a valid question.

I don't play online that often cause I just don't have enough spare time to do so. When I do I use "free cards" that I get from games and friends. I think MS should offer a free but ad-sponsored online service alongside their premium gold service.

you will always see adds. if not, they'll be coming around the corner. Xbox Live "is" online gaming.

it's a small square, which appears on the home blade/download blade. that's it.

90% of the time it's usually "X game just got released/new content for X game"

so, go ahead and try to make it seem like we gotta wait 1 min before doing anything, it shows who actually has a 360 and who's just talking crap.

u pay 4 Qore , and ur forced 2 watch the ads
ads on XBL don't get in the way and ur not forced 2 see em

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Microsoft

now that 2.4 is out can we now put to rest that the PSN will be on par or better than XBL because its still not an still isn't even close. MS will continue to charge for XBL until Sony really puts up a comparable service. an besides XBL charge is ONLY for online play. you don't need XBL for in game music. you need atleast a silver account for, updates,movies downloads, demos. an you need gold to connect to another player!! an that burger king ad you guys were talking about came with burger king sponsored gamer pics an themes.

yeah, the fact that there was an ad there was annoying when i turn on my 360 for the first time. i figured that this was subsidizing the silver 'free' membership. when i paid for gold membership, i figured they'd be gone. sadly, no.

that bothers me but i think what really bugs me more is how big they are. they take up a pretty sizable chunk of real estate on the screen. look at what you can actually click on with any given blade, it's just a big waste of space.

not gonna stop me from playing... it's just annoying.

i wud understand about the ads if XBL was free. microsoft is just greedy and thats all i can say. you even have to pay for themes and gamerpics which really pisses me off.

I like having one account and not paying for anything on it except for downloadables. It's quite nice.

I may wait for Gears of War 2 to come out before I even think about getting on XBL, though.
As for PSN... shape up buddy. 2.40 is nice, but needs to be fixed.

Boring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i just saw a add on the dashboard "buy a xbox get rrod free!!!"

These posts are pointless the differences can end being huge in any given month. Pointless

Let MSFT do it their way and Sony do it their way.

Why does any company have adds?. lol

By the end of the year the two services will he so different it will sound ridiculous to say *why is one service not like the other etc hell even now it sounds goofy. hahahaha

He should turn off the ads feature(account managment) if he hates McDonalds hahahaah kind of foolish to assume MSFT has to make XBL free from the money they get from ads.

More money means bigger and better innovative and much faster updates.

I guess Microsoft isn't that rich as XBox 360 fans make it out to be considering there charging there consumers the service and the ads they didn't want.

I pay $50 not to see these ads, and yet I see them! I wouldn't care if the ads are only on the Xbox Live Blade, but THEY'RE ON ALMOST EVERY SINGLE BLADE. I would understand if the Silver Membership got this cause the service has to pay itself somehow, but to the Gold members as well? No thanks Microsoft, I've wasted $50 on you already and I won't do it again just for you to screw me over again.

Are you tired of mcdonalds being shoved in your face after you just got fired from there?
Are you tired of "sponsored by burger king ads" everytime you go to check your message?
Are you tired of paying 50 dollars a year only for ads to prompt you to buy more products by MICROSOFT?
Are you tired of your play time being deducted from some walmart ad on a new wrinch?
Are you tired of trying to watch you favorite show and long t.v ads interrupt your viewing pleasure only to come on "xbox live" and be rudely and abrubptly bombarded with the same commercial?

Never again should a customer have to deal with such involuntary criminal activities of the evil cooporation that is MICROSOFT. Pay for a expensive first party hardrive, pay for your service, pay for malfunctioning hardware, pay for batteries to your control, pay to leave your seat for the bathroom.........

Ever since microsoft has been in the lead, unsanitary acts have been not only promoted but acted upon and quite frankly, I and many others of the gaming community are getting tired of it.

However there is a solution to this. This solution is called the PLAYSTATION THREE COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM brought to you by the ever expanding minds of those and SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT who seem to be the only ones to care for there everyday customer needs. Never have i had to be stilted to watch an advertisement on cat food when i don't even have one. SONY being the graceful and comforting cooporation that they are not only allow for there infinetely growing community free online service to talk to, message, and have some friendly competition with a friend in another home across the various places of the earth. They even allow for us to search the interenet for those unfortunate few who may be incapable or do not have access to a computer moniter at the moment.

and last but not least, never have i had to secumb to such filthy unlawful practices as to those with the xbox live service. It's because of this that psn community is young, old, rich, and many that are respectful well mannered beings who also can see the vision of sony and respects other persons privacy.

PLAYSTATION THREE is the clear choice for my household and as shown by NPD, CHARTTRACK, and MEDIA CRATE is also in rapidly being vitalized into others homes. Thats why the PLAYSTATION THREE is the best choice for your online and offline entertainment.

--CASE CLOSED--

you can call it ads... There is only two blades that have ads and they usually relate to something new on the marketplace or vid mp. I rarely even get to look at them.

BECOZ SHANE KIM SAY SO

...ignore the ads.

Flame-bait.

and I like the ads anyway it tells me what the hell is out, and if it peaks my interest or not. F!ck psn.

XBL will never be free MSFT will just add new fuctionality and features plus content after a restructured Gold and Silver account plans.

E3 should be intresting based on Sony blowing its wad before E3 almost nervously while Sony fans get bold/rabid/cocy/ancy for the same reasons.

why not?

XBL is great, quit your moaning.

tbh .. i think it should be either pay monthly/yearly w/e.. or ads.. not both..

Wifi
HDD
Peer to Peer
HDDVD
Dedicated Servers
24 hour movie rental
Batteries
Themes
Wallpapers
Messaging Friends
Playing Games Online

and then MS throws ad's at you on your pay service as well?

Now I see why MS loves xbots, they are dumber than salt.

i had xbox live once....then my mom got a job! wakka wakka ok im done

LOL... what's this? is this a response to the 'games don't pause automatically when you access the XMB while in a game'? both pathetic! move along, nothing to see here

Well to me, having to pay $50 (£25) for an annual subscription of LIVE is fair enough really if you enjoy playing games on it with friends etc... But to be honest if LIVE is ad-driven then shouldn't it be free of charge?

Hope I'm making a valid point here.

It doesnt bother me if it is in games as long as im having fun and it wouldnt bother me aswell if sony had them on its dashboard which it doesnt but if they did I wouldnt mind because we are getting to play games and all this free.

I can understand the guy who wrote this article, I mean he does have a point with why does he have to look at these ads if he is paying for his service. Some people may say he is nitpicking over small things like this but he does have a point to go with his arguement. A good example is the reviewers who gave mgs4 a lower score then it deserved. Us fans of the series were argueing over why they were nitpicking on there review for mgs4 and alot of 360 fans were trying to tell us get over it, its there opinion, well its the same as this persons review on why are there ads on his dashboard when he simply pays for this crap? Now u guys trying to say his opinion is stupid and a small issue.

In the end he is nitpicking in my opinion but I understand where he is coming from just for the fact that he pays for his services.

Their are ads on XBL???? LMAO! I never even noticed.

On a massive scale. But what Sony needs to do is heavily advertise the in-game communication features that PS3 now has. 2.40 is apparently just a baby step towards bigger features, but they better start now (i.e. E3).

And because they make money out of it, they charge for live because they can and make money out of it. It´s pretty simple, as long as people are willing to pay it wont change..

How dumb are some people, Ads are everywhere, not just XBL and I don't even pay attention to them, I must be the only one that ads do not effect me.

It's not like it's a POP-UP that warrants a "close" Click or something.

I turn on XBL, I press left and right for my Blades and I do not see how it gets in my way.

Plus many on this site do not have XBL..so wouldn't know much about it. Well there is not much to XBL's blades. How simple can ya get.

I don't know, maybe it has something to do with making money? lol

They charge you for themes! They charge you for gaming tips you could easily find on the internet if they gave you a browser! They charge you for changing your screen name!

All this and you still have to pay 50$ a year to play on non-dedicated servers. No, XBL is supposed to be superior yet it uses the highly inferior P2P networking. I geuss some people just need host advantage.

Then they cram ads down your throat. People who defend this practice would probably defend Enron. As long as there are suckers out their to pay for this crap MS is just going to find more ways to charge gamers. And I'm sorry, but how much of that 50$ a year actually goes back into XBL?

but I agree, why should I pay for the service and see ads too.

they should make a free one with ads, or a pay one without.

Sorry but if the ads were pop-ups, or they were welcome screens I had to skip past to get to Live content then maybe this article/rant would hold some water. But reality is the ads when up on site are NEVER in the way of ANYTHING I want to do. This is absolutely a non-issue.

Sure it´s not a big deal because they arent really in the way. I think it´s more of an issue that MS could cover their cost for xbox live by this ads alone, but also choose to charge people for it.

This was just my way of seeing it and thats why i can understand if people get annoyed..

Alot of people on this site shouldn't be labled gamers....nope not at all. I think the better term for you guys would be politicians as some of you flip-flop just as good if not better than the rest of them. If many of you will recall achievements were laughed at and many SONY fanboys wondered why people were so addicted to them...calling them "childish". But what have we here? The minute you guys can update to 2.4 the VERY FIRST post you see....I got my first trophy! Now its good that you guys can enjoy what the 360 gamers have been enjoying for many, many years. Just like it will be good whenever 360 users will get some of the cool features that the wii and ps3 have. But for you to ridicule a console because of the lack of abilities that your console currently has is ridiculous. You are just envious plain and simple.

Another issue that I repeatedly hear is the fact that the XBL BLADES are hard to you. I've come to the conclusion that most people who complain about them have a)Never used it b)Don't follow directions or read very well b)Are just mad because MS got something right. I really like both GUI...the BLADES and the XB. Whats better? Depends on what side of the bed I wake up on I guess. Thats how minimum the differences are to ME. Oh and the 360 ads aren't bad at all. I do agree that since MS is getting sponsorships from the ads that they can reduce the price of LIVE but I'm not complaining because the service is great. Hopefully SONY will pressure MS into doing so but I'm not mad because I'm happy with the service they provide...Oh and 360 owners should be happy for the PS3 owners getting new features and what not... and vice versa. I thought gamers were supposed to be about playing great games and informing other gamers of great games that they have played regardless of what system they own and giving honest, fact based opinions on consoles and/or games to protect other gamers from shody products. After all, not everyone can own both systems or buy every game... But maybe thats not what a gamer is. Is it?

Can you explain your disagreement? You don't like my def of a gamer or you don't like my opinion on XBL and PSN?

do you guy really believe that MS could run XBL with the few ADs it do have. if you guys can remember MS invested 200 million into XBL on XBOX 1. the PSN doesnt have ads because what company would pay sony to advertise there product on what the PSN offers right now!!

Whose this Jeremy? Surely it isn't another blog opinion article from a site I've never heard of... oh wait. Of course it is!

"While the decision not to include the ability to invite friends to games or jump into games with friends in the update is fairly mind-boggling,"

I'm thinking when Home comes out they will have that option in the 2D space(i.e. on the XMB)in addition to the Home's 3D space version

XBL has like 2 or 3 adverts on the dashboard at most lol, whats the problem with that. Even then, most of the time is telling you about games which are coming out soon or have been released this week.

dumb n00bs. those aren't ads. they are quick links to free downloads like new demos or themes.

dumb droids.

It's absurd.
There's no other product in existence that forces ads down your throat even though you pay for the service (except for cable TV, but don't get me started).
We should own every inch of real estate on that dashboard at that price.
Put all the ads in the marketplace blade where they belong M$!

$ what do people think these companies do everything for free?

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The POINT is that PSN is FREE and doesn't have them. Not the fact that they exist.

I feel like boycotting,......anyone with a xbox live account change your motto to MakeLive Free or else,we must make a stand and fight the man

It is fairly amusing that many of the people complaining about the ads or saying how bad they are, are people that own PS3s and don't own 360s.
Personally i am really ticked off how much it costs to run a Ferrari F40 these days with the high price of gas.

Majority of Xbox 360 owners enjoy paying $50 for an online service that should be FREE and they are also watching ads on it. Just like they are paying $100 extra for Wireless adapter that should be free or at least cheaper.

You guys need a lesson in economics.

If company is ripping you off and you condone it, they will continue doing it.
Why would you choose to pay extra, if you can have it for free?

All you to do is complain to MS and if enough people complain, they'll listen but Xbox live is never going to be free if you all are content with paying $50.

I'm not writing to bash MS, Xbox 360 or 360 owners but to appeal to your common sense.

Why pay if you can have it FREE?

Complain to MS.

If you all have extra money you'll like to waste, send it to me (USD please) because I still need to buy MGS4 and I'll be buying R2, LBP, Socom, Killzone 2, GOW III, inFamous, WKC, and FFXIII.

PSN is FREE and it is ad-free. I hope MS copies this move.

Reminder: if you bought a 360 at launch in the U.S. your warranty will be expiring soon; i suggest you write an earnest letter to MS about increasing the warranty. With enough complaints, the warranty could be extended once again.
Just a thought :)

they are generally about promoting new stuff or events happening over XBL. I like some of the weekend event and playing with the developers. It certainly would be nice to know when they are happening. We find out about new downloads for XBLA, demos, map packs, etc. I can't always keep up and would like to know when XBLA games and Rock Band songs in particular are being released.

isn't EVERYTHING on the xbox 360 an ad in some way or another? I mean think about it- they're all focusing your attention on current GAMES being released now and for the future. hence its all Ads.

that we seriously owned yesterday. he went a cried so he would write bullsh1t about xbox 360 to make him feel better

Dude im on your side and all, but the 360 is in its third year now.... not its fifth.

None of the adds are intrusive, im sure that everyone here that owns a PS3 though is just complaining because they feel the 360 in its entirety is intrusive.

No one is to blame except us, ms puts ads there becuase the advertizers pay, it makes the dash look up to date in some form but the ads are huge and out of place and its logical for anyone to ask why? why if big corps are paying ms for the ad space are we paying for p2p, and up till now we knew why but its becoming clear that the ps3 will have LIVE features for free with no ads on the dash and it will become unacceptable and cost customers for ms.

IF all multiplat games look the same
And all the other games have all these features like live, plus home, plus free online, then why not switch when live membership runs outm you get the point.

The ads are not intrusive and are always for game related stuff, i'd rather have them to tell me what is in store this week and where to get free themes.
MS arent making much money off them coz 90% of them are MS ads, they dont pay themselves for the space do they?

having just been on my 360 all the ads i saw were for newly released games,demos.now considering it is a games console,what is the big deal with that?

i like seeing what games are coming out or new demos.so why are people making abig deal about something which is very useful for a gamer.sometimes you see ads for ms wireless headsets or other accesories which again is useful to a gamer.

if live had loads of ads for things like kfc,burger king,splashed all over the place,then you could have a valid arguement.but its nearly all related to gaming.

and i think everyone who uses live would like it to be free,but at the same time they dont mind paying for a quality service which is cheap and easy to use.

moaning about ads on live which is nearly all games related is like buying a pc mag then complaining about all the ads for pc's and other software on it.

I actually read the XBL ads from time to time, I like being updated on the latest stuff for it, it's not a plus but not a negative.

it's all some stupid ass PS3fanboy saying "well why the hell xbl have ads", der der der. you can turn them off for god sake!!! idk why the hell he put the article up. well there ads on your computer,t.v and some others. whoever posted this main article not you killtheaquitted but whoever posted this, is dumb,retarted and a dumb ass PS3fanboy.

and also what the problem not having ads on the xbox 360. i like seeing new stuff everyday. like demos,new downloadable content and many more. and all you say was mcdonalds and burgerking. wow i bet your hungry. again stupid ass PS3fanboy