Major Nelson: Silverlight won't turn your dashboards into Shibuya Crossing, promise

Posted Jul 1, 2009 at 6:42PM EST by Mabie A.

Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: Dashboard, Major Nelson, xbox 360 titles

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The announcement of the coming of Silverlight to the XBL brought about a rapid discussion on the pros and cons of having them on board, with most of the folks not wanting their dashboards covered with advertisements. Now, we have Major Nelson giving his two cents on the matter.

NOT your dashboard.

Writing on his blog, he said:

I've seen quite a bit of discussion today about how we're bringing Silverlight ads to LIVE in the future. I need to let you know that you don't need to worry about a huge influx of ads across the dashboard. One of our core principles is to enhance, not interfere (emphasis his) with the gaming experience, and we work directly with our partners to only deliver experiences that are relevant to the LIVE community.

Silverlight will help make those ads a more organic part of the dashboard, like we've done with some of the NXE slots in the past. No one on the team wants to turn the dashboard into something that looks like Shibuya Crossing. That's just not good for anyone.

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I pay for XBL....how about no ads at all ?

Or at least limit them to the Store and keep it game related (like PS3)

The biggest thing I hate about 360's dash is all the room that is devoted to ads....especially when you are not silver (I can understand ads for silver users)

If they are going to paste ads all over the place and make money off of them, they should consider making XBL free all together.....of course that won't happen.

# I don't care — Master Chef 2009-07-02 10:51

If you're going to put more ads in at all, lower the subscription fee. And these ads better not slow the Dash and Guide down even more

# mmhumm — Relys 2009-07-02 12:25

I'm with everyone on this one.

I think Xbox Live should be free even without adds lol. (P2P networking ftl) This is even more of a ripoff.

# I just threw my 360 out my window.. — Nyutan 2009-07-04 19:01

.. Surprisingly.. It still works.. either my grass is soft or I'm weak.

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