I'm going to divulge a little secret: I've never been the least bit interested in Home. I've grasped the fact from the beginning that Sony may present some cool new innovations within it, but it just doesn't look like my cup of tea. In a recent report from UK magazine Play, they express a little bit of what I have already quietly thought to myself: Home looks a bit boring.
Having had their hands on the beta for a while now, Play gives their feedback on Sony's version of Second Life (no wonder I feel less than enthused). Two overwheming impressions jump at you from their first impressions: lots of downloading, and lots of solitude. From the post:
Once we’d overcome this process, we were in Home Square. Eerily, this
hub of Home activity was 100% deserted. Around us, tons of advertising posters for Sony products were hanging on the walls, while huge video
screens donned trailers of the latest Sony products. In all honesty, it was
like walking into some kind of nightmarish, Sony-generated Dystopia.
Home seemed a bit … Orwellian. Hardly an image you want to provide,
when users are discovering it for the first time.
Of course, this makes it sound as if there were nothing but negative impressions, and that in fact is not true. As soon as Home became populated during a Sony press event, Play described that part of the experience very differently, so don't start wringing your hands just yet -- there is hope that the long awaited social tool could be just as wonderful as you were hoping.
[Via CVG -- Thanks, Joe]
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4:05 PM on 09.26.2008
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I'm with you though, Colette. It seems like nothing more than a convolution of something simple like a Friend List, and then some dildo-free Second Life. No thank you.
It could still be a pretty fun way to interact with people and what not but I'm not holding my breath.
the stuff like The warhawk sand table interests me.
Like the Channels Nintendo offers for the Wii, Home will be a feature I never use on my PS3 (once I break down and buy one). It's as simple as that.
But I will of course try it out if it's free.
uh...
Isn't that... kind of... obvious?
I'm no Sony fan, but isn't this like having 100 people test an MMO, and then saying "it's really bleak, you rarely see characters."
You really going to tell me that you and the Retro peeps wouldn't absolutely dig hanging out in a Home Mega Man room fitted in Retro goodness, Colette? Or a Castlevania room? I know that probably won't be for some time, if at all, but the possibility will still wipe XBoxes attempt at social networking, I believe. As far as advertising, you can't really bitch if it's free and unobtrusive.
It might be fun for a few hours, but then you are basically running around the equivalent of a city in an MMO, reading chat channels and dancing in front of the mailbox.
If I want to meet up to play a game, why not meet up in the lobby? If I want to meet people on PSN, why not meet people in a game when I am actually doing something meaningful?
I'm not being hateful, I'm just truly curious what the point of Home is. If it doesn't have a point, I doubt I'll use it more than once.
It looks interesting, to say the least. I can't wait to lure an unsuspecting player into my apartment so I can BLAST DEATH METAL into their ears.. ^_^