New iPhone ad features Game Center

This is probably the douche-iest iPhone commercial yet. It almost sounds condescending at the end.

I usually like to check these out but this one just kind of pissed me off.

Am I the only one who wishes that there was a way to permanently disable Game Center? I never found it all that compelling to begin with and find it annoying to have the multiple log-in screens pop up any time I launch a game that's Game Center enabled.

not sure.

What game is that multiplayer flying one in the ad?

interesting.

I am a true Apple fanboy, and have loved most of their advertising (and products!) for the last decade. But these ads are horrible. Rather than reinforce the best associations one might have with the brand--cool, thoughtful design; it just works; etc.--they reinforce the worst associations--smug, elitist, holier-than-thou. Terrible, terrible, terrible campaign.

And I agree: the "yep" is the worst part,

The problem is, I have an iPad, and I game on the iPad, but I don't care about Game Center - I don't think I've even opened the app more than once. What's the point of it again?

Game center doesn't cut it for me. I love apple products and am enjoying my iPad 2, but game center is vastly inferior to things like xbox achievements or event PSN trophies. There is no point total, for one! I chase down achievements in a console game to up my gamerscore. With game center there is no cumulative total. It's just a bunch of unconnected collections of achievements that don't interact with each other.

My problem with Game Center is they just made the sane mistake Blizzard did by requiring real user names to "friends". I don't think these companies understand how "friends" and "buddies" work in online games. We don't particuraly care to know these people beyond the fact that thief cool to play with. It's like bookmarking a website with funny article. You don't make it a regular stop, you just want to remember who that was an maybe play with then again some day.

There needs to be a two level setup to "friending". I call them aquaitances and friends. Aquaitances are people who think eachother cool enough to add to a buddy list so they can play again with ease later. A Friend is someone you know already or have gotten to know beyond "he's a mad man at Star Pagga."

I do hope Valve brings Steam tools to iOS, because that would kick game center in it's pathetic junk. Groups, friends without real names, online storage for some syncing... steam layer for text and voice chat?

And even if you HAVE the iPhone 4 (like me), you might still find these commercials horribly annoying. I can't stand the condescending "Yep" they put in every commercial. Makes me cringe every time.