What the hell is a playstation home?

Meh... it's free for anyone who owns a PS3. You get what you pay for.

They have the rules posted in the main area of home and rule 1. If "Have fun" So I guess everyone on there is breaking atleast 1 rule.

Inb4
"playstation home isn't that bad. Sure it started out pretty bad but it has gotten better recently because *list of reasons attemting to justify it's existance*"

Elsa's right.

It's free, who cares if it's shit.

@Aurain

A swift kick in the balls is free, too. When you're using that swift kick in the balls as a perk that comes with the system, that's when people start to mock it.

I went into PS Home once. I will never go back.

personally I deleted home just for the reason I felt it was a waste of space on my ps3 hard drive.

@Elsa and Aurain

I'm not complaining about it's price, but I just figured there'd be something to do in the thing. At least it's not required, though.

I'm not sure why Microsoft is just now hating on Home. The service has been out for 2 years, so what is the point?

He meant "earnings" not "learnings".

Eh, there are some fun mini-games, but yeah, it basically is a chat room. I usually just like to log in and tell people I'm Justin Bieber. No one ever believes me.

As worthless as it seems, it seems to make money for Sony (ads) and the few times I was bored enough to go in there's always a bunch of people in it.

That's what I use it for...what was it's original purpose?

...rather, what were people hyping this thing up to be in the first place besides a video-game themed chat room?

Better than Game Room, at least.

Sometimes when I try to click on the PlayStation Store I accidentally click on PlayStation Home and say "FUCK".

Besides, a free 'chat room' is a hell of a lot more than you get from Microsoft for free, so.. at least it makes them money without gouging consumers.

I remember when home was suppose to be all awesome and stuff...but it's ok now.

@meteorscrap
That's retarded and it implies that Home is detrimental to anything at all, which it isn't. Even if you absolutely hate the app, all you do is not start it.

I like that people are saying "Well it's free". What the hell does that have to do with it? They wasted resources on PS Home that could have been spent making their online experience something worthwhile. How is that a good thing?

@Trev,

Except, it is detrimental. Detrimental to the fact that resources were spent on something completely pointless instead of something awesome. I'd say that sucks.

It's a fun place to deliberately run in someones face and do 'The Running Man' dance till the person screams "BAN!" beyond that, it's shite.

First thing I did in Home - I created a 50 year old Star Trek geek and started blowing people off at the bowling alley. I had fun actually.

^^ BTW, I'm a proud PS3 owner. Love the machine. But that doesn't mean I can't knock some of its more pointless features.

This really isn't that news worthy.

@runtheplacered: That's a matter of perspective. Sony makes a lot of money from Home selling useless stuff like virtual clothes and whatnot. They use that money to improve other online stuff so it's not useless.

@mrandydixon
Yeah, I've done that, too. I had to do some breathing exercises to calm down.

However, either this is the most pointless post evrr, or Sterling is just trolling. Why? What is the point of purposely trying to cause arguments? I don't understand why he feels the need to do this on a daily basis. Or is he just taking as many shots at his "enemies" as he can?

In other news, Steve Jobs said the breakroom at Microsoft headquarters is "comfortable" and the snack machines have "a good selection".

@runtheplacered
Anything can be detrimental from a given perspective. If a company is developing two games and you hate one of them, then development of game X "is detrimental" to development of game Y because hypothetically that money and time could go to improving game X. Those decisions are already made and the existence of Home, despite neither of us liking how it turned out, is not actively hurting the rest of the PSN or PS3 owners in a way comparable to a kick in the balls. I don't like it, but it simply isn't somehow dragging things down with it. Hell, it seems like some people even like it and they would probably think investing in cross-game chat is detrimental to the thing they like.

Microsoft says Home is 'nice?' More than I'd say about it.

But it is detrimental.....as mrandydixon explained, sometimes he goes "Home" when he really wanted to go to the "Store".

Any old excuse to make his imaginary child seem all the more real :)

Y'know what a better chat room is? Party chat. On any available system.

Having available a free, optional and shitty application is better than having to pay a subscription fee to access a significant component of most modern games.

Basically, employing subscription fees for online gaming is much worse than lightly investing in a useless program. Pointing fingers is stupid - it's not like either company is free of some sort of guilt.

Then again, boys will be boys.

Much as I hate to say it, I agree. Home had so much potential, and it sucks. Nothing was realized.

meh... I got to Home on occasion. Its not bad, its not great either. Usually just a bunch of kids telling girl avatars they are so hot. But some things are neat, and its cool to explore some sandbox areas every now and again. I wish they would continuously update the rooms they have, to give some incentive to go back intead of blowing through them once and never going back.

Went into Home once, looked around and promptly deleted it. Such a waste of time and money.

i have used home only once...I didn't see anything worth talking about.

I went on PSHome a grand total of twice, and both times I was sufficiently creeped out by the ghoulish avatars and then it crashed.

Also, this thread's image is slightly unnerving.

I went on home once

I will give them some credit though, the chess has been not all that bad. Other than that, I don't use it.

I remember saying " Fuck yeah " when it came out. It was awesome for the first month, then it got boring. Getting the voice chat removed from outdoors use also didn't help.

I've been 'playing' a bit of Home lately, actually. Not because it's good, just because I need something to do as I dick around at lunch that won't take too long.

Anyone go up to females and do that dance that makes it look like your humping them?

Oh, just me then.

I like home a lot better then Microsoft lame avatar shop its way better.

There is still no reason for the average gamer to boot up Home. It's basically just a bunch of advertisements. Sony the right idea with game launching and clubhouses, but both are poorly implemented.

Calling Home a glorified "chat room" is fair.

I always felt home was one of the worst business decisions Sony has ever made, next to of course releasing a product that took 3 years to become prophetable :p

But eh I suppose someone has to make these kinds of things happen just so everyone else doesn't make the same mistake.

I got a few games that I'm not a big fan of (so far), so Playstation Home is actually the most entertaining part of owning a PS3 so far. Then again it was because my brother made an avatar for himself that looked so unbelievably stupid and then started to rearrange furniture in the oddest way ever.

Fair enough.

I'm not sure why everybody feels Home was a bad business decision for Sony. Home is obviously a never-dying source of very free and very easy money for Sony, through the use of advertising.

I doubt its a lot of profit, but considering Home is still up and running - and it's sole purpose is advertising - it's got to at least be making a profit. Bad decision for it's 'gamer cred'? Sure. But certainly not a bad business decision.

The reason why Home still exists is because it's a money-making machine for Sony... just go on there and see how many people are wandering about with avatars they paid money for, then extrapolate to their designer avatar apartment, plus any other shit they fancy paying a couple of quid for... once you factor in advertising revenues, it is almost impossible for Sony not to make money on it.

And if that money goes towards, oh, I don't know, KillZone 3, then I'm all for it.