What a shocker

 

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Originally Posted by Toology

What a shocker

Truest words.

 

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On Xbox, the ad is part of the actual experience.

Seriously, why do people think they can say stuff like this without damaging results?

There should literally be a company ban on talking to media from these guys until they do a two year course or something.
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The only difference is that the advertisement we have is quite small and not disruptive, so people are not aware of clicking on the banners because they know this is a part of the whole experience on the dash

What does that even mean?
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So the users know that this is something that when they click on it, they won't be hit by something crazy or something dangerous like on the web. Everything that lands there, we create

If the advertisements are for deals on games and they are frequent, fine. That will work.

If you are trying to sell me mountain dew, no please.

 

Why are they telling us this though? Isn't this... bad?

 

Part of the experience......
Ooooh awesome today i'm going to play with all the advertisnents on my xbox its always so much fun!?

 

I'm going to put vibrators all over the place to force it to show pr0n ads.

Will it?

 

Mountain Dew, Doritos and Pizza Hut included with every game! Great.....

 

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Originally Posted by Artikbot

I'm going to put vibrators all over the place to force it to show pr0n ads.

Will it?

Why do you have so many vibrators?

 

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Xbox already utilise some form of minimal targeting, for example age and brand engagement, allowing them to serve personalised ads. "For example 18+ people; we can target these ads at people who haven't used the LoveFilm app," but Kinect and the Xbox One could allow them to take this to the next level.

they can see us

good to know

 

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Originally Posted by tompsonn

Why do you have so many vibrators?

shutup that's why

Grizzle, the way the dashboard is now, there are tiles that actively play ads on that tab/slate/whatever the proper windows 8 term is but don't show any audio until you hover over them. There are also the types for games or just static ads or whatever; going back to E3 that's the way it looked like they'd be doing so I really didn't expect anything different.

why this is news though, I have no idea. You'd think it'd be the other way around especially with all the bad press they had; even some generic spin "We created this with the user in mind. SIMPLE. CREATIVE. INSTANT. EASY. PLEASEBUYIT."

 

Does this mean that they are spying on us? Not for the govt but 4 retail companies?

 

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Originally Posted by FCSElite

Kinect 2 will make it easy to show relevant ads to the user

I called it! But everyone was like "No, don't talk rubbish!".

 

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Originally Posted by tompsonn

Why do you have so many vibrators?

I swear I'd buy them just for the sake of science XD

 

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Originally Posted by Artikbot

I swear I'd buy them just for the sake of science XD

that makes my wife a scientist!!!

so, i want to see how MS justifies the adds and making people pay for an XBL gold subscription.
heck, the adds alongside making people pay to use other paid services.

 

1. Pay for online play
2. Get bombarded with advertising nonetheless.

Yeah, Xbox Live is really great

 

Why do businesses think we like ads?
Are they really that dumb.

 

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Originally Posted by t00sl0w

that makes my wife a scientist!!!

I'm quite disturbed by this statement

 

Knew it.
Called it.
Got told I was wrong. I wasn't.

 

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Originally Posted by GrizzleBoy

Seriously, why do people think they can say stuff like this without damaging results?

There should literally be a company ban on talking to media from these guys until they do a two year course or something.
What does that even mean?
If the advertisements are for deals on games and they are frequent, fine. That will work.

If you are trying to sell me mountain dew, no please.

Sounds like you endorse sugar coating no matter how you look at it.

 

But...I thought it was designed for gamers? Was I wrong this whole time?

 

A video I made (It's very topical)

 

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The only difference is that the advertisement we have is quite small and not disruptive, so people are not aware of clicking on the banners because they know this is a part of the whole experience on the dash

are they trying to harness the power of clicking? you know, like that idea of setting up sidewalks, so when people walk on them, they create electricity

 

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Originally Posted by Sir Amik Vase

Why do businesses think we like ads?
Are they really that dumb.

QFT

If I want something I will seek it out, shoving it in my face is just annoying. Like the commercials that interrupt my free Pandora listening. I'm not gonna buy your 5 blade razer after you cut off my song mid jam.

 

MS needs to get someone in front of a camera or microphone that can stop the PR bleeding instead of freshen up the wounds. If users can at least have the option to disable ads then no big deal. Thing is, MS is not big on their users having option on how they use xbox hardware and services.

 

Yayyyy pay 499$ + online for a console that constantly watches you and stuffs advertisements up your throat who wouldn't want that!