Microsoft Has Begun Testing Ad-Supported Free Xbox Game Streaming

[Peter_Brosdahl]

It turns out that, after months of rumors and hints from leadership, Xbox is indeed going to test the waters by introducing ads to cloud game streaming. Rather than begin with a new tier for Xbox Game Pass, Microsoft is experimenting with adding ads for users streaming their own games from the cloud. Similar to […]

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[Grimlakin]

Hi we see that you're in your 50's and playing Dead or Alive beach volleyball. Here is your add for blue Chew mostly with AI talent to get you to buy your boner gum.

 

[Uvilla]

Ads , ive learned to accept, but dang, what is it with the obssesion, feels this is beyond money.
Also, the one thing that should have switched to free " ad suported" is cable at least a decade ago, and yet.

 

[Skillz]

Ads , ive learned to accept, but dang, what is it with the obssesion, feels this is beyond money.
Also, the one thing that should have switched to free " ad suported" is cable at least a decade ago, and yet.

Yeah kind of wild that OTA channels have always been free, but with "ads" aka commercials. Yet cable never figured that out. You would have thought that once they started competing with streaming services they would have at least tried it. I'd probably have "cable" if it was free, but instead if just spent money on a network tuner card to get the free OTA channels to compliment my streaming.

 

[Brian_B]

Yeah kind of wild that OTA channels have always been free, but with "ads" aka commercials. Yet cable never figured that out. You would have thought that once they started competing with streaming services they would have at least tried it. I'd probably have "cable" if it was free, but instead if just spent money on a network tuner card to get the free OTA channels to compliment my streaming.

Yeah that was the biggest reason I stopped paying for Cable

OTA was free, with ads. Cable/Satellite - you pay (a lot) for, and still have the ads anyway (maybe even more ads). There are entire channels dedicated to just being ads on Cable... it got to be rediculous.