Sony, but I don't know if there's a TV out there with a good interface.
Xbox owners are being treated to a full-size pop up ad for 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III' at start-up
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This was discussed before and you aren't as funny as you think you are showing Steam ads
And people wonder why we're at 20 pages... Because the standard corporate defence force arrived and tries to paint it as OK.
I was going to mention that this has been a Steam thing since forever, but the 20 pages probably means it's already been covered.
again, it's not that nobody cared
Is Starfield the most heavily marketed game on the Windows 10/11 login screen?
These are from my own hardware in the last 2-3 days (laptop, gaming pc, work pc). I'm starting to feel MS is targeting me personally on this one. Halo Infinite had some, but not as much as this I think? EDIT: Explanation
www.resetera.com
It's just that now I guess people are starting to notice the pattern.
This has nothing to do with the ABK deal
(The point of the link to that thread is to show that it didn't get much track cause it wasn't an issue because people opted out of getting targeted ads.)
Steam allows you to never see an ad on launch if you so choose. You can turn off the "What's New" popup window and choose to set your starting page to your library.
I do not believe I am being "toxic" or "reductive". I believe I am treating this with the seriousness it deserves.
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Oh so you're being toxic and reductive? Thanks for confirming.
You have a duty to the discussion to not derail it. So if you are not coming in with anything to add, even if you do not agree with the discussion, you are going against the rules of the forum by driveby posting in a way that distracts from the actual discussion.
If the ad had a spinning cat, the thread would be praise!
You're not being as insightful as you think you are.
You're not being as insightful as you think you are.
MS doesn't care anymore Windows 11 is filled with ads and people are accepting it. I hate it.
My LG OLED because you can turn it completely off😁 I use a Roku Ultra on it for apps much better.
I posted this yesterday, but I want to know is this only effecting US Xbox owners? Mine that I have in Canada has had no splash page even when Starfield or Forza released. The only thing I have is one of those smaller ads on the homepage for MWIII.
Maybe you shouldn't be derailing the thread trying to get someone reported or banned over nothing. 🤷 Seems against the rules. Backseat modding. PM me if you have further concerns.
I actually have something interesting to add to this discussion:
Ignoring you now.
I'm in UK and got this one, don't believe I had one for Starfield or Forza though 🤔
I'm in Canada and had it for this, Starfield, Forza, and the E3 showcase.
Just because I don't believe this is at all a serious issue and my opinion differs from yours does NOT mean my opinion is invalid or uninteresting, thank you very much. Please don't try and police my opinions.
"Ignoring you now"
I'm not the one that started this conversation. Lol.
Man, the 'LOL I can close out of the ad so fast' responses are killing me. I have never seen such blatant defensiveness for a damn advertisement of all things.
Weird, I think I am on the insider program so my dashboard might be different.
No I don't. I have Youtube premium. No ads. I have Spotify premium. No ads. I subscribe to patreons of my favorite creators for podcasts. No ads. I watch local TV shows on demand. No ads. My PS5 is located in the EU so the dash has no ads. All my browsers are adblocked (aside from exception for RE). No ads.
I feel ads are a blight and if I have to pay a bit more to avoid them, I will. Windows throwing ads in the OS means that I will likely stick with MacOS. I will never buy a Samsung TV because the menu has the occasional ad. I despise the mere idea of 'owning' your 2000+$ OLED for it to pop a goddamn ad in your face in the menu bar every day. I mean, how much can you piss in your customer's faces with that kind of move.
So yeah, I don't live in a world of ads, at all. And I will be against their implementation regardless of where they appear. Especially when you're already paying a boatload for a product.
Ads aren't usually a big deal, right until they are. And knowing Microsoft, they are already planning how they can further hire out your owned products for more marketing space. They should do better for their paying customers.
Same. I'm in US Alpha skip-ahead and COD is first one I've seen. Never did see the other 3.
I wanna know too! I'm in the US I haven't seen these on ANY of my Xbox console checked again this morning, nothing. I'm wondering people seeing this do you have Xbox gamepass in any form ? Old live or GPU ? Or no sub? I have GPU have always had Xbox paid service going on 17 + years .
Also add recently taking away almost all dashboard customization in favor of like 12 rows of essentially unwanted/unremovable ads on the console home page below the main screen.
Series X
Skip ahead alpha dash
GPU
Been an ongoing member forever.
Only got the COD one
This is what gives me pause. How quickly consumers normalize advertisements. We seriously have people chiding others for not wanting to be advertised to. Unreal.
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Thank you. The moment you pay for the box, you should have the right to not be advertised to, especially as we more and more understand the psychological subversion that advertising continues to play on us.
Personally I also think that people should have a general legal right to not be advertised to. But that's a bit more radical, I understand.
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The issue with this outrage is where are all the outrages about ads appearing on all other devices or consoles as we speak??
This seem blown out of proportion to epic levels..
this ain't the first time there are ads in these devices…
Many posters act like ads are new things. It's not. This is life now. We got ads right here on resetera.
3 series X -2 Beta
1 Series S Beta
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GPU and haven't see one yet this are the only Xbox's of my 7 currently connected.
Shrug. There may be advertisements in there, but I've also been notified of free dlc for games I own, or a direct I missed while at work. It seems less insidious than a prompt to directly buy a game when I open the console. But you do you.
I posted a potential explanation here: https://www.resetera.com/goto/post?id=114401471
Powder keg, and all that.
what equivalent ads are you referencing? what platforms, what was being advertised, and when?
Exactly
Again, steam and windows have the option to turn it off, PlayStation is when you hover over the store tab
And Nintendo has a lock screen with a sidebar for news/blogs and ads
And there was discussions for previous time, like the Starfield on windows that it didn't became an issue because most windows users turn ads off but it was still talked about.
could've at least provided an example
People really are just too open about how they aren't here to discuss an issue and instead just want to post a weak dunk in bad faith and then dip :/
Perhaps it has to do with it being a gaming site. It's also an advertisement for a war simulator. Not appropriate right now. You're free to discuss consumer rights with me any time. I'm staunchly opposed to advertisements.
Just because it isn't the first doesn't mean it's not worth discussing. Like I said, this is a gaming forum. We should meet people where they are at and engage in good faith. Also, the rebuttal you offered essentially tells people not to be critical now because they haven't been critical in the past. It's a conversation ended. It also proves how dreadfully normalized advertising has become that we ridicule those critical of it and fall back into "that's just the way it is".
Interesting you never got one. Did you already own the new COD when this went out? Don't know if that has anything to do with it. I don't and haven't bought a COD since BO3, I believe.
I haven't played COD in at least 10 years. The last one I finished was Call of duty 2 on the 360
I missed this post but its a good one.
Another factor I'd add is Xbox saying ABK games aren't coming to gamepass for years, but not wasting any time to start doing this.
It feels like an open hoodwink on some level.
Isn't a similar CoD ad popping up when you launch Steam, too?
I kinda want to see this more but with lesser known titles, or even games that are on my wishlist that are on sale (gladly take that over the notification approach they have now). Like CoD doesn't really need much of a boost, it's like air in the gaming space, it's already everywhere.
OK, no. CoD is not a 'war simulator' and conceptually I'm offended at the idea that a company should not advertise/sell a given product because of what an individual may or may not see as 'appropriate' based on world events. It is entirely within your rights to purchase or not purchase something. It is entirely not within your rights to limit what media other people may or may not be exposed to based on your personal judgment of 'appropriateness'.
They forgot you existed! Lucky you. You'd think you'd be first on the list for indoctrination. 😆
COD has pretty much become a sort of adult Fortnite, where Cats, Skeletor and Nicki Minaj run and gun. (Which I find great btw)
And in it I didn't even think to mention that this OO-RAH war game is being full-page advertised at a time where an entire people are being bombed like fish in a barrel, all whilst the rest of the world gawk on and, generally speaking, the people don't seem to see eye-to-eye with the justifications being made by most of the Western Governments.
I'll avoid getting too political in this particular thread about that matter but fucking yikes.