Xbox Users Left Irritated By Excessive MW2 Ads On The Dashboard

I mean, yeah, it’s crowding the screen but it’s easy to ignore. I’m not spending my time on Xbox looking at the dashboard - I’m actually playing a game. To me, it seems like people just want to find something to complain about … as always.

Yeah , same here. Quickly looked at it as I normally would when there are other things showing and went on. Didn’t bother me that much to be honest.

Call of duty
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Call of duty.

I've seen this before

& this is before they even own it lol

I honestly don't see the issue. It's a major release and the last one for a little while as far as I can remember. That space is taken up by ads anyway. Does it really matter what the game is?

ppl are talking like it's Microsoft themselves are putting them there ...you know they are being paid to yeh ????....Yeh lets stop Microsoft making money from these ads ..... Next complaint...they raised prices to stupid amounts cause they stopped selling advertising

People are just mad its not on gamepass and they have to buy it. Move on

Doesn't bother me at all

Who cares? It doesn't affect my game play. I summarily ignore all ads on the home screen anyway.

How would some of these humans survived in the past

The internet has done nothing but expose how whiny people really are

I like some of those, there's some neat artwork out there where the three or two of em coupled together make up a good image. If you got gamepass and the game in question got added to gamepass it's pretty fitting but I can see how some are irritated by it.

Didn’t they do that for persona 5 royal? Anywho doesn’t bother me

Lol doesnt bother me at all.

Man this game really.. this game! Its already my favorite game to date! The sound effects are mind blowing.
Also the way enemies respond feels so real its amazing.

Having a blast with this one, online is also amazing, havent tried the coop yet will do that tomorow.
10/10 from me.

It’s exactly the same over on the PS5 Home Screen.

Worst over cluttered dash board of all the consoles.
Don’t get me wrong some great features like quick resume etc, but not quick clean user interface and still when drilling in and doing things always seems slower than the other two consoles.

@Nightcrawler71
No, it is not. You just see an icon with mw2 if you highlight the store.... On Xbox it's in your face.

I mean, the ads are a bit much...yes. But still I never understand the importance of how the dashboard or homepage or whatever looks on a gaming console. Just play the games. It is not like it is MS Office or something where you use the GUI for hours a day. It is just a "game selection" screen.

Worst dashboard, made worse by advertising. Its hardly a killer issue, but it absolutely sucks to pay for everything and still have half your screen full of ads.
I see the usual 'they can do nothing wrong crowd' are bent over asking for it harder, the hypocrisy makes me laugh, its very human😂

@Nightcrawler71 have you got a ps5? When I turn my ps5 on there's no forced call of duty advertising anywhere unless you go to the store

@Titntin I agree with you, I don't want to see ads plastered on the home screen of my console, and it makes you wonder how much Microsoft are making from these ads, whereas playstation and nintendo dont have any ads, you would think Microsoft would be the ones rich enough to not need ads.

The main reason I want to ads removed is so that the home screen can look neater and create more space to actually see my custom background. Yeah most of the time you just launch a game straight away buts it's still nice to add personal touches to something you're going to own for 7-8 years and spend 100's of hours on, just like with pc I'd wager 99% of people have a background. I just wish playstation 5 also allowed for backgrounds, especially the dynamic ones.

I mean, I noticed this, but it hardly registered with me. Very easy to ignore (much like the game itself). Last week it was P5R, which excited me a bit more as I love the game.

Yeah this sucks I don’t like advertising on my Home Screen and Xbox is riddled with it. I have zero interest in COD.

@Titntin You post some thoughtful and intelligent stuff most of the time then let yourself down with childish comments like your last paragraph here.

@Fenbops Yeah, cant help myself, the hypocrasy needs recognition. I dont see it as childish , but your welcome to think as you will.

@Titntin You don’t point it out on the other site. Just saying. There’s hypocrisy on both sides but much like a couple of people here you choose to come here and point it one way, which is fine you’re entitled to do so, but it’s glaringly obvious.

@Fenbops As far as im aware, i call things as I see them on both sites?
I've seen more hypocracy here due to the people who will accuse Sony of huge evils for almost nothing, but robustly defend the worlds richest corp reserving half their desktop to sell advertising.

But theres huge hypocrisy on both sides of that equation of course, so im sorry if you hadnt noted posts where ive said so. I dont normally call it on either site tbh, as it rarely invites useful discussion, but it was particularly obvious this morning, so I posted a sentance that has obviously touched a nerve with you.

If you wish to believe I have bias, thats your perrogative, and probably true at that, as no one is trully neutral when they care about something and im quite clear that all things being equal, id play on ps. But I assure you my passion is for games, not the corps which make them, and I have every bit as much vested interest in Microsoft doing well and delivering me great titles as anyone else. Sorry if you dont believe that.

Lively discussion.

I didn't have these adds at all. Not today or yesterday. Maybe they know their audience.

@Titntin I understand that. It truly is hard to be neutral and I admit I do not come across as such a lot of the time as I have criticised Sony relentlessly so far this generation for their practices but much like you I just want to play good games wherever they are available. I will also criticise Xbox when i do not like what they’re doing.

As for hypocrisy I think you see more over at PS, there seems to be a larger community of people who will forgive Sony no matter what they do and that has become even more apparent since the beginning of this generation I’d argue. You see that here too but to a lesser extent imo. That may simply be because the community is much larger over there, I don’t know. I prefer the smaller community here which is why I tend to post here more often.

Anyway I will continue to read your post and hold nothing against you, I know you used to work for Bullfrog and I loved Dungeon Keeper back in the day 😄 Have a good day sir I’m off to play A Plague Tale!

@Fenbops Thanks for your posts. Ill try and post as neutrally as I can as Id rather not be seen as a shill for any corp 😁
Im also playing Requiem, although im very early in the game, so I wish you a fun weekend.
P. S. Much as id like to claim I was on the original Dungeon Keeper, its was DK2 which was my baby. Im delighted its still remembered with fondness. I guess I was still childish back then, as I did a little animation of the goblins in their sleep pose having a fiddle under the blankets, which I triggered every time the mistress walked past. Small things please small minds! Thanks for making me remember that! 😂

These adverts are even more annoying when you have already bought the game! Surely it is not beyond the wit of those responsible for the home screen to have it automatically disable adverts for games that you have already purchased?

The same can be said for the Store; as someone that buys a lot of games, it can be infuriating to have to scroll though sometimes hundreds of games that I have already bought when perusing the games currently on sale.

All the apps I use are in groups in the quick menu so I never look at the home screen. If the quick menu wasn't a thing then the ads would annoy me.

Although I wish there was less space dedicated to ads, I actually enjoy the visual of all the ad spots being dedicated to a single title. Especially when they look like a long, sliced art piece. What really annoys me is when the ads are not about gaming but movies or what not.

It was there one time. The next time I booted up it was gone.

I'm a gamer first, I don't spend a lot of time on the dashboard except to launch my games. Couldn't care less what ads are there.

The ad itself isn't annoying, it's the fact that each tile is the same ad. Just pick one character for the ad or put the whole roster on one.

I don't mind ads on the dashboard. I just wish it was more of a personalized selection like because you played x, you might also like...

I noticed it, but it didn't bother me too much.
But, I'm a Firestick owner, so I'm used to having a hot mess of adverts showing you what the platform owner wants you to engage with (rather than showing you what you actually want to engage with).

I just was playing on my Xbox, maybe it’s because I never played a CoD game, but I don’t see the CoD ads. My add lineup right now is “New message from Xbox”, “Play halo infinite now” and “ghost busters spirits unleashed: watch for a chance to win [a controller?]”

@Kaloudz a price hike on what ?

Why are people seeing ANY ads on their console's home screen? That honestly seems pretty insane to me.

@Kaloudz I don't think they'd need the ad revenue to not raise their prices when their in the process of spending 70 billion on an acquisition lol

dont get the complaint this happens with every major release it did this when overwatch 2 launched a week or so ago. and Persona 4 on gamepass did same exact thing.... this is just people bitching to just bitch.