"it's just a beta don't criticize it" ...

I have never understood the draw of Home. I don't understand why so many people thought it would be this great feature of the PS3. It does have some cool features I suppose, but I will take the XMB over Home any day.

What really gets me is that some touted it as a way to catch up to XBL, but it is NOTHING like XBL. I actually think the standard XMB is much more useful and pretty close to the same functionality of XBL (though I don't care too much for online features outside of just gaming).

I really don't know what people expected out of Home, but its essentially what I always thought it would be, a free virtual chat room with a couple mini-games to pass the time.
 
Ah, Home. I remember 8-9 months ago when we were all clamoring for a cleaner way to interface with other users a-la the 360's all the time XBL interface.
Instead we got avatars that all look the same, the ability to pay for new clothes for them, and the ability to chat with random people...for no real reason. AWESOME!
In-game media bar access was 100x more important to the PS3 than this.
 
The_Law said:
I have never understood the draw of Home. I don't understand why so many people thought it would be this great feature of the PS3. It does have some cool features I suppose, but I will take the XMB over Home any day.

What really gets me is that some touted it as a way to catch up to XBL, but it is NOTHING like XBL. I actually think the standard XMB is much more useful and pretty close to the same functionality of XBL (though I don't care too much for online features outside of just gaming).

I really don't know what people expected out of Home, but its essentially what I always thought it would be, a free virtual chat room with a couple mini-games to pass the time.
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I'd say in terms of interface visually and function wise, I'd rate it:

old xb blade interface > XMB > new xbl > wii >>>>>>>>>>>>>> home

I wish the ps store part of the xmb was integrated right in like it is on the 360. I don't like the feel of navigating away from everything. Same for the xbox media center extender. Why do I have to leave the regular xbl menus and start up what acts like a third party program?
 
Technoob said:
I'd say in terms of interface visually and function wise, I'd rate it:

old xb blade interface > XMB > new xbl > wii >>>>>>>>>>>>>> home

I wish the ps store part of the xmb was integrated right in like it is on the 360. I don't like the feel of navigating away from everything. Same for the xbox media center extender. Why do I have to leave the regular xbl menus and start up what acts like a third party program?
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Agree completely. As a system interface, Home is completely retarded. In my opinion, its only redeeming quality is if you are into the social networking aspects (which I am not).
 
The Home thing was never a selling point for the PS3 as far as I was concerned....and after participating in the beta (before it went public) and never firing it up again since...I'm wondering why Sony wasted their time and money.
 
Word is that doing the running man around girls will be made a lot more smooth in the final version.

And now the apropos PA strip:

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Who knows whats in store for Home. The only thing that i believe that is remotely cool is the theater. If they had a free movie showing, i wouldnt mind logging on and watching something. But besides that, meh everything is a waste of time. Would be cool if devs added like play by play tools and battle strategy stuff, but i dont think its going to be something a dev would want to jump into right away.
 
I haven't even tried 'Home' yet. I guess if it's like a modern 'Habitat' with socialization, games, exploration and you have a house which reflects your investment in games (time and money), I guess it would have some appeal. Thing is, for these to be interesting users need be allowed to create and share content, but these huge media companies can't allow that -- for a variety of reasons -- some of which are valid.

If the idea is just "Here's some empty space, you can pay us to fill it with virtual goods", then count me out.
 
Ill be happy when i can put my photos on my apt wall and put porn on them.
Either way, home will be used by many, as games like it always do regardlesss of how much they suck.
 
Warning: Voice chat may totally ruin your expectations
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Great quote from the pic in the link.


WaterproofPaper said:
Who knows whats in store for Home. The only thing that i believe that is remotely cool is the theater. If they had a free movie showing, i wouldnt mind logging on and watching something. But besides that, meh everything is a waste of time. Would be cool if devs added like play by play tools and battle strategy stuff, but i dont think its going to be something a dev would want to jump into right away.
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Yea but you don't need home for that. You can just stream a movie from netflix or download it from the online store(talking about the 360 here although sony has something simular).

Anyway I don't see home being much of anything unless sony really turns it into a game. Like a modern day fable or something.
 
"Free movie showing" are the key words. Netflix isnt free, and neither is downloading it from an online store. Say if home does a pre-showing of a movie before its released on DVD, might get more users to log on and use the service. They can dedicate a day to showing the movie and cap the number of streamers in order to save on bandwith. This would simulate the queuing of a movie theater. But besides all that stuff, theres nothing thats useful. If they had the time and bandwith to create a seamless city, then it would be pretty cool i guess.
 
swatbat said:
Anyway I don't see home being much of anything unless sony really turns it into a game. Like a modern day fable or something.
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No, but second life and other virtual world games do well enough. If you look at the money that changes hands in those gamess, there is a market for it.
As silly as it is for people to pay for online crap, people do it, all the time.

Take a potential massive money making and advertising system and put it as a free game in 17 million homes. As crappy as the beta may be, and as much as us "gamers" are not into the virtual world crap, you cant argue that regardless of how we see it, Sony will see it as a financial success.
 
you get wiisports free with the wii (offline bowling etc are wicked), you get home free with the ps3 (online bowling/pool and board games........excellent!), you get fuck all with the 360, end of.
 
Rash said:
you get wiisports free with the wii (offline bowling etc are wicked), you get home free with the ps3 (online bowling/pool and board games........excellent!), you get fuck all with the 360, end of.
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The Wii analogy I could understand, as you can play that at will, ehever you want, and it's instantly accessible. If you have to wait in line to play virtual games in Home, how is that cool or beneficial in any way? Just because something is free doesn't make it immune to criticism, especially if it sucks, and extra especially if it's been stuffed up all our asses for more than a year with how sooper awesome it was going to be.

Wouldn't you have better served your agenda by posting about your positive experiences with the service, vs. coming off as a knee jerk PS3 defender? Nobody even mentioned the 360 in this thread, besides the Netflix comparison comment, which wasn't even a critique, until your post.

And BTW I got Hexic free with my 360 back in 05', and I'm pretty sure they've been giving away free arcade games with some of the bundles for a while now. I burned up more time with that game than I ever would have/did with Wii Sports. I don't ever even plan to install home after seeing it in action.

It offers nothing of appeal to me, but if others want to watch movies in a virtual space, or wait to play virtual bowling, kudos to them, I hope they enjoy it.
 
Kahnvex said:
The Wii analogy I could understand, as you can play that at will, ehever you want, and it's instantly accessible. If you have to wait in line to play virtual games in Home, how is that cool or beneficial in any way? Just because something is free doesn't make it immune to criticism, especially if it sucks, and extra especially if it's been stuffed up all our asses for more than a year with how sooper awesome it was going to be.

Wouldn't you have better served your agenda by posting about your positive experiences with the service, vs. coming off as a knee jerk PS3 defender? Nobody even mentioned the 360 in this thread, besides the Netflix comparison comment, which wasn't even a critique, until your post.

And BTW I got Hexic free with my 360 back in 05', and I'm pretty sure they've been giving away free arcade games with some of the bundles for a while now. I burned up more time with that game than I ever would have/did with Wii Sports. I don't ever even plan to install home after seeing it in action.

It offers nothing of appeal to me, but if others want to watch movies in a virtual space, or wait to play virtual bowling, kudos to them, I hope they enjoy it.
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Prior to my post the 360 was mentioned 3 times already (not including netflix) if you bothered to read it.
I introduced my brother in law to PS3 last week and he hasnt played a single retail game yet, he is still on home about 6 hrs a day, addicted to online bowling and the whole virtual world scenario, hes been craving online bowling ever since he had the wii at launch, interacting/chatting with the few decent people on home. Alot of people that have come from a wii to a ps3/360 will be blown away by both machines online functionality. i agree some 360 bundles get a free arcade game but every single wii/ps3 gets much much more thrown in.
 
Home has its faults, some very large ones but why are ppl still trying to insinuate you have to use it to do anything on the PS3? I haven't used it since it went into open beta stage and I gotta say my PS3 experience isn't any different for not doing so and until full game launching is incorporated I personally won't bother going back. IMO it cannot be called a console interface until that very important feature is up and running.

Wii 'channels' above Home too? Please....

I'm as 'meh' about Home in its current state as most but the channels are awful, bland and plain ugly.
 
So, If I get it right...

People actually WANT to live in a virtual world inside their own world, and just to be an even more precise copy of the real world, they would like to transfer real world inconveniences (like waiting in a virtual waiting queue (!!!!!!) to play bowling....) in their virtual worlds ?

So, we might see people who eventually are going to create a virtual world for their virtual world's avatar so they can escape and have a break from their first virtual world's problems ?

Oh my...
 
Ultimate Alliance/Forza is one of the best bundles in recent memory...although the PS3 has had some good bundled games like Motorstorm, MGS4, and now Uncharted.
 
Tigerblade said:
Home has its faults, some very large ones but why are ppl still trying to insinuate you have to use it to do anything on the PS3? I haven't used it since it went into open beta stage and I gotta say my PS3 experience isn't any different for not doing so and until full game launching is incorporated I personally won't bother going back. IMO it cannot be called a console interface until that very important feature is up and running.
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Home is a socialization map and it currently doesn't do all the things that they say or advertise it does at this moment (game launching...bring it back Sony). I have not been in Home for a few weeks now and my experience have not changed. I also don't understand why people act as if you have to use it.

Outside of its issues, I have had fun in Home every time I entered. Talking with other PS3 owners have been fun and I have even added others to my friends list for future gaming sessions. This has been a big positive for me.

As far as if it is pointless, not really. There is potential (I am sure you are tired of that word in regards to Sony). Thus far Home seems to be paying off and is becoming a nice source of revenue for Sony. Hopefully, we can see some kick back from this. I am also wishfully thinking that with the last firmware update where Sony implemented live streaming that we can get Live E3 streaming or such through the movie theaters in Home. That would be hands down amazing therefore, it won't happen.

Also regarding interfaces....Home is not the PS3 interface, it is just an additional app like Life w/ Playstation. Just like the NXE, and Wii Channels, the XMB is the PS3's interface and I love it above the others with the NXE coming a close 2nd.
 
So far I really enjoyed Home. I have made a few friends too.
Bowling is really fun once you get a good group of 4.
Also pool is very challenging. I think the most boring chess.

I have maybe 25-30 hours in it. I havent bought anything but I found new area's.
If you press start and go to locations you can go to the Uncharted section and go to the bar. In the bar there are about 4 closed rooms, they require a special pass code to enter. one of the codes is 24312 on the top floor. In there its an artiact room with a TV playing the Uncharted 2 trailer. Looks cool I must say.
In the FarCry 2 train station area there is not much. Cool scene but not much to do yet.

Mostly I just dance in the music section of the Central Plaza.
LoL, I took some screen shots of what new years night looked like. We had a "Running Man" chain of like 30 people.


Stardusted said:
So, If I get it right...

People actually WANT to live in a virtual world inside their own world, and just to be an even more precise copy of the real world, they would like to transfer real world inconveniences (like waiting in a virtual waiting queue (!!!!!!) to play bowling....) in their virtual worlds ?

So, we might see people who eventually are going to create a virtual world for their virtual world's avatar so they can escape and have a break from their first virtual world's problems ?

Oh my...
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haha. Ever heard or World of Warcraft?
 
Stardusted said:
So, If I get it right...

People actually WANT to live in a virtual world inside their own world, and just to be an even more precise copy of the real world, they would like to transfer real world inconveniences (like waiting in a virtual waiting queue (!!!!!!) to play bowling....) in their virtual worlds ?

So, we might see people who eventually are going to create a virtual world for their virtual world's avatar so they can escape and have a break from their first virtual world's problems ?

Oh my...
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Ahaha. So true. It's like that World of World of Warcraft spoof The Onion did.
 
"I signed up for Second Life about a year ago. Back then, my life was so great I literally wanted a second one. Absolutely everything was the same... except I could fly."

-Assistant Regional Manager Dwight K. Schrute
 
Technoob said:
"I signed up for Second Life about a year ago. Back then, my life was so great I literally wanted a second one. Absolutely everything was the same... except I could fly."

-Assistant Regional Manager Dwight K. Schrute
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Any quote of Dwight = Win
 
home is free, you can meet and interact with random people and, and its constantly being updated with new content/locations.

its not a game, its an add on for the enjoyment of ps3 owners. its not something you spend all day in and stare at the wall.

I had great fun walking around, interacting, and playing some in home games with a whole bunch of random people and i made quite few online buddies.

but the key word here is FREE.

Others say why, and I say Why Not
 
duuuuuumb said:
home is free, you can meet and interact with random people and, and its constantly being updated with new content/locations.

its not a game, its an add on for the enjoyment of ps3 owners. its not something you spend all day in and stare at the wall.

I had great fun walking around, interacting, and playing some in home games with a whole bunch of random people and i made quite few online buddies.

but the key word here is FREE.

Others say why, and I say Why Not
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I get the feeling that the issue non-PS3 owners have with the idea of the service is whether or not it should influence a purchase decision (apart from the rabid anti-Sony folks, of course).

Personally, I love my 360, wish I had a Blu-ray player (for the higher resolution and occasional movie rentals) and wish that I could play MGS4. Those things aren't worth the cost to me right now, though, and what I know about Home doesn't even enter into the computation. That said, if I decided to bite the bullet and buy the system, I'd be happy to try out Home and would hope to enjoy it.

Note: If the above is too reasonable and boring, you're welcome to read it as saying "Home sucks harder than the PS3 itself which is already like a hundred Hoovers combined!!" if that makes it more entertaining. ;)
 
Babbster said:
I get the feeling that the issue non-PS3 owners have with the idea of the service is whether or not it should influence a purchase decision (apart from the rabid anti-Sony folks, of course).

Personally, I love my 360, wish I had a Blu-ray player (for the higher resolution and occasional movie rentals) and wish that I could play MGS4. Those things aren't worth the cost to me right now, though, and what I know about Home doesn't even enter into the computation. That said, if I decided to bite the bullet and buy the system, I'd be happy to try out Home and would hope to enjoy it.

Note: If the above is too reasonable and boring, you're welcome to read it as saying "Home sucks harder than the PS3 itself which is already like a hundred Hoovers combined!!" if that makes it more entertaining. ;)
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Are the hoovers modified to increase suck capacity?
 
If obnoxious male avatars grind on you for more than 30 seconds, a taser should spawn in your hand that works for the next 5 minutes.
 
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