I'm overreacting here - ads do not bother me in practice, but in principle. Ads on Gold are silly because, like you say, you pay for it. Ads on Silver are silly because, as far as I'm concerned, it's not a service. It's not a free "you get access to patches and shit" thing, because that is stuff that isn't even negotiable. Yeah, a lot of patches are multiplayer focused, but sometimes a game gets released unfinished or broken, and the devs fix their mistakes with post-release patches that affect singleplayer use, too. Like I said: if they restricted access to that content, it would be ridiculous! Silver doesn't provide me anything that I wouldn't otherwise have simply because I have a gaming machine that is connected to the internet.
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