HOME is pointless??

[blu-dave]

Home has been delayed far too long now! Now we allready have trophys and in game messaging i see very little point in even using home! We can go straight into games and organsise game events through messages, plus who is going to load up home to look at a users trophys when you can acsess them from xmb. I think Home is the only reason there not adding more User Avatars or the whole idea of it would be completly pointless. They should have bought out a very simple concept of it at launch and then added to it say monthly. Then all games would have supported it from launch and there would be alot more usefull content!

Anyhow enough of my opinion, whats yours?

[Mikeblu]

Originally Posted by blu-dave

Home has been delayed far too long now! Now we allready have trophys and in game messaging i see very little point in even using home! We can go straight into games and organsise game events through messages, plus who is going to load up home to look at a users trophys when you can acsess them from xmb. I think Home is the only reason there not adding more User Avatars or the whole idea of it would be completly pointless. They should have bought out a very simple concept of it at launch and then added to it say monthly. Then all games would have supported it from launch and there would be alot more usefull content!

Anyhow enough of my opinion, whats yours?

Jack whatever his name is hinted it will be at Leizpig, and Sony have confirmed it'll be out this year

[ricky tee78]

my fear is it will crash more then a ticked off 16 year old.

[blu-dave]

Originally Posted by Mikeblu

Jack whatever his name is hinted it will be at Leizpig, and Sony have confirmed it'll be out this year

as long as its working well when released though...as we have seen with alot of online things it takes a while to get them running smoothly. Warhwak for instance? started off terrible! great game now though

[JonD7]

Home comes when it comes, I don't care anymore... when its on my PS3, cool... whatever, I am sure i'll have some fun with it but hey we got enough games to tide us over, lets stop making HOME threads already...

[mikem471]

Originally Posted by JonD7

Home comes when it comes, I don't care anymore... when its on my PS3, cool... whatever, I am sure i'll have some fun with it but hey we got enough games to tide us over, lets stop making HOME threads already...

Counting this one, I found 2 threads about Home on the first 5 pages. Where are the rest that are bothering you so much?

[inuyashalover21]

TBH it lost all its hype when it was supposed to have a public beta last november. I dont care anymore. Well there is my opinion

[ajkj9]

i've pretty much been holding my breath waiting for home... , but after that last delay...

but seriously though, when it actually does come out, i think it'll be cool. i trust sony will make sure everything is right with it when they release it.

[inuyashalover21]

Originally Posted by ajkj9

i've pretty much been holding my breath waiting for home... , but after that last delay...

but seriously though, when it actually does come out, i think it'll be cool. i trust sony will make sure everything is right with it when they release it.

I think they said the release date was november 09 if I am not mistaken.

[MasterXeus]

Originally Posted by inuyashalover21

TBH it lost all its hype when it was supposed to have a public beta last november. I dont care anymore. Well there is my opinion

+1
I really hope I'm wrong but I have a feeling that when the open beta is release it's going to crash shortly afterwards.

[zxvfrr41]

Originally Posted by blu-dave

as long as its working well when released though...as we have seen with alot of online things it takes a while to get them running smoothly. Warhwak for instance? started off terrible! great game now though

That's why it has taken Sony so long to get this out. They said they will not release it until it is ready. Although it's been delayed, you have to give them credit for not rushing some bug riddled mess out that would only frustrate gamers.

There's a whole lot more to Home than just trophies and getting your friends into games.

[Copywriter]

Micro-transactions aside, HOME probably won't offer too much initially.

It will be a fun week after the release I'm sure, but after that, who knows.

[CptGreedle]

I think Home has lot of potential, but it is not going to be perfect when it is out.
It will need to grow. ideally it would be a great place to place mini games with friends, real PS3 games as well, meet up with people who are into the same things you are, show off what you like and your style, and maybe become a place where you can connect to blogs and RSS feeds and other internet sites to discuss gaming.
I don't know how well this will do, but if it is a free download, who cares? Use it or don't. At first everyone is praising it and eagerly waiting for it to come out. Now that it still isn't here everyone is ridiculing it and saying it is not any good.
I think after a little while it will show its value... i am just upset it is taking this long to come out and want to see them focus on creativity and not marketing.

[Proteus]

As you all already know, I'm pretty much anti-HOME.

Why?

Not because I don't think it's 'neato' or whatever, but because I simply believe Sony could have spent all that money and time making _quality games_ instead.

HOME seems to be just that... A 'home'. The only problem is, this one is a major fixer upper and the term 'money pit' comes to mind.

Frankly, HOME should have been dropped over a year ago when it was clear it could not be delivered within six months of the PS3's release. Why didn't they? My guess is Sony felt like they entrenched too much marketing hype and PR speak into it to just drop it. It would have been a huge blow to the brand so they pressed on. Problem is, now it could be an even bigger blow to the brand longer term with it's constant delays, release in 'beta' state, quasi-feature set, current beta testers 'bored with it and never logging in' and I'm not even touching on the cost of possible games that team could have developed in that time which may/may not have had success in helping the platform.

Sony should have left Web 2.0, you know, _on the Web_.

[JonD7]

Originally Posted by mikem471

Counting this one, I found 2 threads about Home on the first 5 pages. Where are the rest that are bothering you so much?

hey, i'm just saying... I do see alot of posts about Home daily, maybe there not whole threads, although it does feel that way... just feels like there all the same to... I wasn't being pissy just so you know.

[reiella]

Just curious, why do folks associate Home with Web 2.0 concepts?

[Ippiki Okami]

In Home at least you get to use your avatar to do stuff!...instead of just looking at it

[Therickus]

Originally Posted by JonD7

Home comes when it comes, I don't care anymore... when its on my PS3, cool... whatever, I am sure i'll have some fun with it but hey we got enough games to tide us over, lets stop making HOME threads already...

You should start a thread about not making any more Home threads.

[Aaron]

I have a PS3 for games and media, not social networking. If I want to interact with people online, I'll use Facebook, or Second Life if I'm feeling really nerdy.

I love Web 2.0 more than anyone else alive (really), but keep it in the web and out of my gaming consoles.

Some basic social networking features are fine, but Home is kind of over doing it.

kthxbai

[Aaron]

Originally Posted by reiella

Just curious, why do folks associate Home with Web 2.0 concepts?

Because Web 2.0 is mostly social networking, and home is social networking.