DISCLAIMER: I’m not going to mention anything regarding the XBOX Live Feature on the 360, and if you came here to read about comparisons then you should leave because I don’t own a 360, therefore I know nothing about XBOX Live.
Looking for a way to waste your time and money? Well, Sony has a feature that will make you feel right at home. This feature offers a watered down, simulated life with little to no positives, yet people are eating this feature up.
Where else can you go where you have to pay for clothing and furniture? Oh, that would be in real life. Home offers free games and music to listen to along with Home spaces that all appear to be a complete….waste of time. When I am gaming, I want to get away from real-life, no matter how realistic the game or experience may be. When will Sony allow you to make purchases based on your trophy count for a particular game, or better yet, offer PSN games in the Home feature?
What Sony should do, is make an update for Go! Sports Ski and then make that playable on Home, along with High Velocity Bowling, the PixelJunk games, even WipeoutHD among other games. This would allow people who are on the fence about purchasing these games to see what they would be getting, plus it would give us a better reason to visit Home. And don’t offer a playable Demo, offer the actual gaming experience, minus DLC, but allow people to play against each other in the process so they can get the best idea of what they are potentially purchasing.
Now you’re probably asking: “But, The Don why would they purchase the game if it’s already available on Home?” Great question, for one people would want to play the game whenever they want to and not have to hope there is a spot open to play the game. Second of all, people in the real world have friends who would play these games with them, and this would be the perfect chance to promote two things: Great PSN Titles…and Home itself.
Instead of offering these idea’s I’ve suggested to broaden the horizons of Home, all they have shown is that they can combine MySpace and the Sims game. Making money off a gimmick that seems to have teenagers in a frenzy, which is nothing more than a cheap tactic in an attempt to capture a piece of the current trend.
I often hear about “New Home spaces” being delivered and I’ve taken the time to visit Home on a few of these occasions. These Home spaces are a complete yawn fest and all I see is what people who talk about Home say every time, being “There’s always one girl with a group of guys fighting over each other to get her to come back to their Home space” Pathetic is one thing, but this is beyond pathetic especially when half of the time that “girl” is a guy who has some emotional issues that he needs to figure out. Either that or he has too much free time on his hands.
Home is clearly a way for Sony to make more money (obviously), but please, try to convince me that you want to offer more for your PS3 gaming community than for yourself. Try adding some of the games that I’ve mentioned earlier in the article as a playable option along with rewarding gamers for trophies earned, as this would only be a win-win for all parties involved.
All-in-all, Home is supposed to still be in it’s Beta phase, but how long is that supposed to be? They are charging people for things in an unfinished product that they keep trying to push, but appear to be milking everything they can by charging prices like $2.50 for a shirt or a fancy table.
Until Home isn’t anything more than a complete waste of time, I will not even bother with it even though I want to take advantage of everything my Playstation 3 has to offer. But, Home is the most useless of them all and I’d rather spend my time Folding@Home rather using the Home feature that offers pretty much nothing worth looking forward to at this point other than a Home space that I’ll check out once and leave.
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Great Article. Home is not the best right now. It does seem dumb mostly since they took out voice chat. It just seems so quiet like nothing is going on. The one thing that they seem to be doing right is expanding. They are constantly adding more content and spaces.
Great article??? I’m sorry Don, but this is stupid. This is just a rant about how YOU want home to change, and how YOU are unhappy. Well as you said, loads of people love it so deal with it.
They should put Wipeout HD, fully playable on Home?? Don’t know if you noticed but its taken Sony a while just to get in-game voice chat. Some people aren’t living in reality. I mean seriously some of you babies expect to click your fingers and have everything you want happen there and now!
If you have feedback, leave it on the official blog! They want to hear how to improve home and they are definitely making progress.
How long is it going to be in beta? I count 4 months. How long has Gmail been in beta? Do you have any idea how complex it must be to implement home?
All these ideas to “broaden the horizons of Home” have already been thought of, trophy tie-ins etc, theyre coming. Again its not like most games out even have trophies to begin with. But its all coming. Slowly but surely its coming. Little whiny babies like you need to just sell the PS3 and find something else to whine about. Thats whats pathetic. Home is FREE. Don’t like it? Don’t use it. But please don’t keep whining and annoying the rest of us who have a mental age of over 7 and have patience and can see that with time, Home will be pretty awesome.
“try to convince me that you want to offer more for your PS3 gaming community than for yourself.” How about FREE online gaming? How about user-upgradeable hard drives?
thanks for the reply Mandingo, that well very well put and thoughtful!
however, Home is still a waste of time and paying for furniture and clothers with real money is plain stupid….
keep the replies coming, I like the long replies…you put some effort into it!
-Don
I think Home has come along quite well since it launched. The Xi space was like Professor Layton, but free!
I’ll pop into Home to spend a few minutes walking around a new space imagining the potential.
Case in point: The EA space is shaping up to be awesome, but having seen it so early, no idea how to play the carting, no chance of getting on the poker – I don’t think I’ll go back til yet another space is opened.
I won’t try communicating with anyone because I’m as much wary of them thinking I’m a freak as I am thinking they’re one.
This is the behaviour that lets Home down most, it is meant to be an alternative to myspace and facebook – but people like me won’t treat it as such.
I think we have seen enough of these Home bashing article. Not bashing gamingvice, but it seems like ppl beat home to death. People need to realize that Home is just a for casual players to sit and relax and talk. Personally I feel home can be fun for short periods of time. Bowling with your bros and now u can play Hold em at Ea’s place. That along with the racing the the airplane thing at the Red Bull Space.
I just don’t see why they charge money for anything other than content that you can actually use…
All the Home bashing articles I’ve seen were trying to compare it to what XBL offers…
I am bashing it by itself…alone because I know it is still a work in progress, but every time I see something new and all the hype, it ends up being something completely lame…