Do not panic! Playstation Home is still a priority. Please go back to whatever it is you were doing before you heard the news that it was possibly no longer a priority for Sony. Chances are whatever you were doing was not involving Home, but if it was (dressing up for Halloween?) you should be in a better mood now. Recently, Edge had quoted Pete Edwards, director of PlayStation Home, as saying that Home was no longer a business priority for Sony despite increased hours of use and money being spent by those who use it.
"It’s been a long road," he said. "We've proved there is a market out there and we’ve got a lot of people that spend a lot of time in [Home]. It’s not a priority right now but there is a business model there," he said.
This is a lie. Sony has rebuked the quote by saying that it was taken out of context and misrepresented what Edwards was trying to say. “Allow me to put your minds at ease about this recent press. The coverage of what Pete Edwards said at the London Games Conference was not only a misquote, it was a misreprentation [sic] of what he actually said,” a Home Manager explained on the official PlayStation forums, “Edwards was saying that monetizing Home was not as big a priority as building a great platform, with a compelling environment and a strong community. Home is still a top priority for Sony and will continue to release quality content and provide a positive experience to our users.”
“And yes, we will continue working on fixing bugs, login problems, and other user issues.”
There you go. I just summed up two days of internet drama for you. Seems a bit less exciting when it's all in one post.
Contest:
11:00 PM on 10.31.2009
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I heard both Sony and developers are making money out of Home, so I guess it's not a waste of resources just because you don't care...
Although, I don't care either, I am still confused who the large user base is, since it seems like no one on cares and think it's lame.
Just for fun.
i still like it.
you don't? i don't care. :)
Home "should" be useful for gamers. With games like MAG it works on 8 person squads... a large group of people should be able to gather in one spot in Home (without running into the "instances" problem) then this should be easily possible so that they can group up into 8 person squads and launch into the game. Right now this isn't possible. The clubhouses were a good idea but they should have worked on an unlimited number of members (though maybe a 32 or 64 person limit on entry). Home 'could' be useful for gamers... but right now, it simply isn't.
And, even though I don't buy anything from home, nearly everyone on there has bought something or another. They even started doing things like (example) in the sf4 room, if you have a SF4 costume on, you can do special moves like fireballs and dragon punches. Its clever.
I checked out Home when it was first open and it was a horrible waste of time. Especially for someone like me who gets on to game, I don't chat and there was nothing to do or see.
But lately, it's actually worthwhile.
The game homes have a couple good enough times. Like if I go around Infamous Home site, you can hear more about the game and the making of it straight from developers than you ever thought you'd know. Which I actually got into.
And over at Buzz, if you happen to like pop triva, they have a mini game with questions made by regular people at their website. It's an actual game of Buzz.
For everyone? No. But it is a nice little bonus when you consider that Home is free and can be completely skipped by simply not clicking to enter it. It's not forced on you like a 360 avatar.
And I now own Ghostbuster and Killzone homes and a Batcave (which was free with the Arkham game) to hang out in.
Is it a waste of money? Purely subjective. Some could say if you already have a handful of perfectly playable multiplayer games, then buying another is a waste of money.
And they would say that because they aren't gamers, so they see anything they aren't into as a waste of time.
It's ALL a waste of time. Anything we do after we have secured having food and shelter and (hopefully) a family, anything we do in our downtime is wasting time doing what we enjoy.
And for those that do enjoy these social things, the quality now isn't the same as it was a few months ago. I mean, heck, I cruised around and did a handful of mildly interesting things and I didn't socialize with anyone.
And yeah, I did like my Avatar dressed in a Burn Zombie Burn shirt I won for playing their free mini game and my zombie head along with werewolf feet. I wish I didn't and can't explain why because I'm not technically doing anything with it other than walking around, but I don't always need a reason for everything I do or to justify what I like. I just like it.
It's free! Enjoy it or not, it's pretty hard to argue Sony hasn't made huge strides for those who do partake and managed to put together things for people to check out when they are in there.
Toast is done. Gotta go eat breakfast. I'll shut up.
As my 360 motto just so happens to say (more to make fanboys angry than an actual opinion): LIVE free or go HOME.
Yeah, it gets in the way of their master plan to nickel-and-dime out PS2 games over PSN just like they already do PSOne game, but it would still be better than blowing resources and money on Home.
I mean that, not as a slam, not as a slight, but seriously; the resources being put into the Home project border on an affront to what I expect in interactive communication. If you put that money into a bump-mapped version of Tetris? I'd me more impressed. I'd afford Sony more of my disposable income. And I'd certainly be more impressed by the company and the Playstation brand as a whole.
Please listen Sony...for once?
Bravo.
if you are serious about ps3 home you should give up on getting laid... its like that game... uhhhhh second life?
second life is not even a game its a basically a social network for ppl who cant show their real face and have no friends... gee gee
Kthnxbai
The only joy i get from this game is creating a fat guy, giving him the chest scar from kazuya (Tekken), and do the cabbage patch dance in front of avatars making statements like "Im too hot for you to keep up with" and "WATCH OUT! IM GONNA BRING THE HOUSE DOWN WITH THIS!"
Add fucking.