Whats with the constant home hating? I've got Little Big Planet, Uncharted, Burnout Paradise and Gran Turismo 5 Prologue and there all great games but I still end up spending as much time in home as I do playing any of them if not as much as I do playing all of them collectively. Want to know why? because home is freaken awesome. There's chess (which I'm absolutely addicted to), bowling, pool, mancala, two text adventures, a airplane racing game, a car racing game, some kinda hover bike racing game with randomized obstacles to avoid, a bunch of puzzle games, and tons more. Plus there's always new content being added. Most of all it just seems cool that its an MMO in which people actually acknowledge each other rather then just having other plays populate the background for visual effect. Seriously most MMOs are glorified single player games. You get like one minute of social interaction out of every five hours of WoW.

I especially hate how people are constantly insulting anyone who goes in for a micro transactions like buying clothing in home. That parts not even limited to home. I have never bought virtual clothing and I'm doubtful that I ever will but I can see the appeal of having more options to differentiate yourself from the people you interact with. How is that any different then buying clothing in real life? I doubt you only own the minimum amount of clothing necessary to avoid getting arrested for walking around nude so whether you acknowledge it or not your buying clothes just to effect how you appear and since it seems unlikely that you will sell your clothes later or do anything with them other then wear them you aren't getting anymore of a value out of them then if they where digital. Even if you don't want to personally spend money on that kind of micro transaction you have to be willing to acknowledge that not only are there existence not hurting you but you are benefiting from them. IF you have EVER played a free to play MMO then you have directly benifited from other peoples willingness to pay for micro transactions.

Hey, you can hit the Enter key more than once per reply.

Seriously.

As for Home, I don't get it. Yeah, it's got pool and bowling, but I don't want to fucking wait in line for that. I want to play it immediately with my friends. Waiting for some dip to play the billiards game for 30 minutes and then have someone jump ahead of me because he's closer to the "mark" where you can start a game isn't all that much fun. Maybe if you could just play immediately?

I also don't like how sheltered Home feels. Yeah, it's separated by continent, but the experience is different between each region and it feels stifling to get these different experiences that don't mesh.

As for it not being anything like WOW, you couldn't be more right, but in a different way. You get out of WOW what you put into it. If you have lots of friends that play, there's loads to do in WOW. I get the exact same experience you get on WOW on Home. No one I know uses it, most have it either deleted or unused because no one else hangs out on it. The whole concept of themed areas is nice, but vastly underused. So far we've got Warhawk for launching games, and the Namco Museum room for Japan.

I'm sure it'll grow some in it's lifetime, but for pete's sake, it's 2 years late to the game and launched with nothing, enough to where a lot of people really don't want to bother with what it supposedly offers. I know I really don't.

@ThatOtherPerson

You just described second life.

Yes. Digital clothing has just as much worth as physical clothing.

Where's Jonathon Ross? I have a candidate for the next Fanboy Friday.

I'd probably download this on my friend's PS3 just to mess with him. He really only uses it to hit on girls (he claims he's doing it just to mess around, but I've noticed a trend) and to bother other people.

So I like to go in and mess with as many things as possible for his next login. Beyond that, Home is boring.

Can you hump the tree?

Are pets available in Home yet? I really want a virtual dog, so it can pee on that tree's face. I would gladly sit through the 5-minute loading screen for that...

"I'm sure all of you will now break the vow of a lifetime and reinstall Home"

Christ I knew other people uninstalled it but I didn't know I wasn't the only one to make that vow.
That being said, let us not break it.

If Home implemented a Red Faction type destruction mechanic, I bet more people would be "playing".

What is this Home no one is talking about?

I'll check it out, free is free after all, nothing wrong with that.

@ThatOtherPerson


tl;dr

what's it like being a complete tool? clothes keep me warm - Home does not.

So is that all there is in the room? It's just a circular room with a tree and a bit customisable?