PS3 Home Official Thread
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Erebus
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It's not my PS3's fault then.wotter said:Got my free motorstorm jeans and went to the podium event. There's a Home logo looping, some GamesCom flags and an awesome vase which spits out ps face button controller icons. Couldn't look any further cause it froze all of a sudden
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edgefusion
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Oozinator said:
No.
We only got Ryu, Ken and uhh Guile I think.I have to say, I am pleasantly surprised at Home success. I logged into it like two months ago (thought I'd give it another chance) and although I enjoyed marginally more than the last time, it still felt "stale" to me. I guess I'm not their target market, or maybe I haven't spent enough time. That said, I really am surprised Home is as successful as it is. To be quite frank, I do not see what people find enjoyable about it (maybe it is because I'm no longer into the whole Habbo Hotel/2nd Life thing) but for some reason, Sony has found a market for the thing. And with an average time spent online of 56mins (seriously, what do you do for an hour on Home!?), Sony is definitely doing something right.
Ninja Moomin
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WTF... my content has vanished...
So one night i was a bit drunk and bought the city apartment...
Yesterday i discovered it has vanished from my locations list... it's also not in the spaces store anymore.... so i can;t redownload it... and home content does not appear in the PS Store download history.
So not only did i waste £3.99 on a whim... but i can no longer access something i paid for... with not so much as an email explaining why it;s not in the store anymore... i mean... they fucking know my email address, if there was a problem with something purchased how hard can it be to pull off a list of the people that own it and fire off an explanation?
WTF Sony... you certainly taught me not to buy anything in home again
The PSN monkey has raped me and i feel i will never be clean.
Shurs said:
they actually showed off a camera item long time ago you could pose in front and take pictures with
seeing as they took their sweet ass time with picture frame
i doubt we'll be seeing this anytime soon
animated shirts/furnitures are cool and all but i want more usable item
can't believe it's still just the bubble machine XD
Yeah, it's pretty pathetic actually. I was always thinking about that game in the central hub, with the flying saucers, if you got a really high score or reached a certain score it would give you a saucer and a launch pad in your inventory. Would be cool to be able to fly it all around the central hub for example, almost like a debug camera.jiggle said:
Too bad things like that will never happen... Home had so much potential, they came up real short on many basic things. It's still an alright experience for many, but it's missing a lot. Could have been sooo much more than what it is now.
Sentry said:It's been 3 years and there are still some things that haven't even happen when they were expected/assumed to 'eventually'..
Come to think of it, something very similar to what you described already exists. In the Ghostbusters firehouse apartment you can fly around as Slimer and remotely control him.
You say 3 years. Home was revealed on GDC 07. Does it lack certain features that were demo'ed 2 years ago? Yes, unfortunately they're slow on letting users share music & video and the trophy room still hasn't arrived but there are tons of other content that are here now that were not presented.
You're writting off the system far too early. It launched at the end of last year and already it has changed a lot. These social worlds always evolve.
I see where you're coming from, but my point is things like that are so limited, it's unfortunate.
I say 3 years because I was beta testing Home back early 07, and it honestly was an awesome experience, but so much never came to fruition. It has a ton of potential but it was approached in such a way where progress was not only limited but also non-focused, they need to get the basics right before adding onto whatever frame you may have.
That's not to say it hasn't improved since the first beta I tried, i've said this before but i'll say it again, if you compared the first year of versions of Home to what we have now, it would be like a sequel leap, from technical aspects to functionality. But that doesn't change the fact the core is still missing some things, fundamental things.
Don't get me wrong, im not writing off anything, not even close. Just saying that more needs to be done, and I don't mean additional game spaces and whatnot, I mean core things at the basic frame level.
Home is great, but it could have been (and can be) amazing.
I say 3 years because I was beta testing Home back early 07, and it honestly was an awesome experience, but so much never came to fruition. It has a ton of potential but it was approached in such a way where progress was not only limited but also non-focused, they need to get the basics right before adding onto whatever frame you may have.
That's not to say it hasn't improved since the first beta I tried, i've said this before but i'll say it again, if you compared the first year of versions of Home to what we have now, it would be like a sequel leap, from technical aspects to functionality. But that doesn't change the fact the core is still missing some things, fundamental things.
Don't get me wrong, im not writing off anything, not even close. Just saying that more needs to be done, and I don't mean additional game spaces and whatnot, I mean core things at the basic frame level.
Home is great, but it could have been (and can be) amazing.
edgefusion
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I'm really hoping Sony mention Home at Gamescom. Since Home's release Sony have really not said much about it and it's making me think it just doesn't factor into PS3's grand scheme anymore.
edgefusion said:
I'm actually surprised they've put Home in the spotlight at all recently. Given that most of the main gaming press has completely written it off I was amazed to see a Home montage in this year's E3 presentation. They also always have it playable in the Sony booth. What they haven't done sadly is any big announcemts during these events.
Agreed, and yes, the media sharing aspects was some of the most intriguing aspects about the entire project, however I don't really blame it on them as im sure there are some pretty thick walls in that area (copy right issues). Even in the beta, when they released picture frames there was a lot of issues, and eventually got removed.. various devs in home also said (on multiple occasions) that it was a mater of copy right issues not technical limitations. Sucks, but what can ya do. :\Oni Jazar said:
It'll definitely be at GC, one way or another.edgefusion said:
SolidusDave
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Oni Jazar said:
After making you pay for the picture sharing/frames (and only available in the US-region at the moment because of SCEE executives), I don't have much faith for the music&video sharing. They will just sell virtual CD-Player and HDTV for 3-5$.
Home should give me more/better features than XMB to have interest in using it and they should be free (same with the clubhouses btw., could be easily used for your clan etc.).
I know it is not the same but i.e. try the XMB video&voice chat with your friends (up to 6 people IIRC), you can easily blend in any picture of your HDD (and for free, too...).
rainking187
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Oni Jazar said:
Damn, thanks for reminding me, I almost missed the free coffee table.
edgefusion
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And how much longer will Europe have to wait for this earth-shattering update of everything we haven't been asking for?
Sentry said:
Yes, they say it takes you right to the start screen (if it doesn't fully support it) which is better than having to exit Home. Never knew why they didn't keep it in from the closed beta.
Other items such as queuing and targeting sounds interesting and I hope its what I think they are for.
Teetris said:
It's still in beta
SolidusDave
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edgefusion said:
On the same day (don't know about the items though, I would think they give us the camera too)
This is a Home-softwareupdate, these roll out for every region at the same time/day and are made by one developer team (in contrast to the content-teams of each region).
@Universal gamelaunching: It just saves you the *close home* *start game* *start home again after playing* process (if you are at home anyway
).SecretBonusPoint
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HOLY FUCK, MEGATON. QUICK EVERYONE BACK TO HOME.
This really is Sony's abortion-gone-wrong. The idea of allowing Home to have a 12gb cache actually makes me taste bile it is so unappealing. Still no universal 3d Trophies/Room, looks like theyre giving up on ever forcing Home Party Launching as a requirement and just having some lame XMB skipping boot-up for games.
Wasn't Marvel vs Capcom 2 supposed to unlock some Home stuff as well? Who knows.
SecretBonusPoint
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Loudninja said:
Yeah, it still came out, and not well.
Actually all it saves you is *press PS button* *Scroll to game in the XMB* *Press the X button*, in-game XMB ftw.SolidusDave said:@Universal gamelaunching: It just saves you the *close home* *start game* *start home again after playing* process (if you are at home anyway