PlayStation Home has not exactly been the most warmly received of ventures, and part of that is most certainly down to the two-year build of hype. Microsoft got away with fairly useless Avatars because they weren't built up for years beforehand. Home, however, has not been so lucky.
"Initially, there was real excitement from people, because we were showing something really different and that had a lot of potential," suggested Home director Peter Edward. "And then there’s the realization that, well, we probably announced it too early – GDC 07 was a long time ago. I think there was sort of recognition amongst developers of 'Oh, this is interesting, but there’s still a lot of work to be done.'"
Goodwin also said that the aforementioned developers were "cagey" about being involved with Home, unsure if they wanted to take part. However, he stated that studios should be excited for Home as it allows them to keep a direct relationship with consumers, and maintain interest in its games with tournaments and leaderboards, not to mention direct feedback. So basically, they're touting Home as a slightly more colorful Internet message board.
Maybe with a few more months/years, Home will be something worth getting excited about. Right now, I simply don't want it on my Hard Drive again.
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9:20 AM on 01.09.2009
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I will try the Red Bull island and the EA Sports Dome though. Maybe one day it'll be my time waster, but for now it's Little Big Planet.
Eventually....
It's a beta, keep your panties out of a bunch.
I'd be honestly bitching about Bethesda releasing a game that hasn't been tested on all platforms before release, let alone finished.. (level cap of 20?! this is a DEMO!) Not to mention the fact that some customers were snubbed and basically shat upon for buying it for their preferred system.
Check out their Message boards under PS3 support...
This is more BS than Home being boring.. Home's gonna be boring until it's DONE.
At least SCEA tells us what is up, and doesn't leave us guessing if they're ever going to add on.. or better yet they released a game for the 360, but they aren't releasing patches or content for it... Just for the PS.
If you ask me this is way more bullshit than home being boring, or lackluster... It's BETA.
The game I'm referring to is at least 3 months old, and they've already told 1.08 million people that they won't be able to play the expansions, or go beyond level 20 in this game.
gah BULLSHIT!
"We're lucky to be invited to this party though :V"
I just tried the Red Bull area and it was boring. Everything was closed off. All that you could do was walk around. What was so fun about it? And I never saw an EA area. It downloaded new Central Plaza and Home Theatre sections, but there was nothing fun about the Red Bull and no indication of EA.
http://www.destructoid.com/ces-2009-ea-thinks-home-needs-more-buildings-releasing-their-own-this-spring-117399.phtml
Did you play the Red Bull Airplane game?
it was an embarrasingly obvious knee-jerk reaction to the success M$ was having with 'Live'. those were my exact feelings when they first announced it and they haven't changed.
they had no killer-app's, consoles sitting on shelves and were getting crucified in both enthusiast and mainstream press for the insane launch price. so instead of simply offering something comparable to Live, which would've been the practicle thing to do, Sony decided to one-up them with a 'second life' knock-off.
what a waste of resources...
The world is boring and uninteresting. When I booted up Home, I'm sitting in this empty apartment. I'd moved some furniture around, that sucked. Went on to the balcony and couldn't jump off, that sucked. Then I tried to leave and had to wait for this arena to load. The loading and installing sucked. I made a comment about this thing being slow, and someone said "get an new hard-drive". Yeah, I'll do that for Home. Awesome. End of the day, I could definitely do without Home existing. I would of rather had the R&D be invested into new IP's or other OS features.
The 360 avatars should go away too. This is just getting foolish.
It's not a beta. It's an unfinished product being called a beta as a cheap cover-up.
I don't want dress-up non-games.
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