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Home will be down for maintenance today in order to upgrade the app from v1.03 to v1.04.
Well documented connection issues are the primary reason for the work.
The update will take approximately six hours, according to this post on the PS Blog.
The new version willl have voice chat disabled, apparently, so it’s keyboards only for now.
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Blerk said:
The upgrade takes stuff out?
Quiiick said:
Why not? Maybe voice-chat took to much bandwidth.
I couldn’t understand what people were saying anyway …
G1GAHURTZ said:
What a shambles.
Tonka said:
OMG, the PS3 really is shit isn’t it?
SilentLoner said:
Wow, they better add it back, how can voice chat take too much bandwith?!
Good job I have the ps3 keyboard, it needs to be patched back in quickly if they dont want MORE home/ps3 negativity than they already have.
trav said:
Is this the patch that makes it fun?
sennasnit said:
man, i love Tonka
Syrok said:
trav: No, the fun patch is coming with 1.8
Robo_1 said:
Beta release is work in progress shocker!
OrphanageExplosion said:
Oh come on, considering how long it’s been delayed, you’d think they’d have voice chat sorted out by now.
Robo_1 said:
Oh it’s not good that features are being pulled and there’s so little to do, but it’s a beta, beta’s come with rough edges. If they’d have said Home is finished, join up and be amazed then fair enough, but it’s quite clearly labelled a beta, and nobody is obliged to use it.
Lambast them for slow development if you like, but it seems daft to slag off a beta for being a beta.
G1GAHURTZ said:
By definition betas should be feature complete.
If you’re removing features during the beta, it’s a very bad sign.
Aretak said:
It’s only a “beta” in the same sense that Gmail is anyway. It’ll never lose that tag, I guarantee you now.
Esha said:
@Gigz
Except for that every MMO that ever was has removed features from a beta period to better code them and reintroduce them later.
I don’t know how much development you actually follow, Gigz (but I’m an open source fan, and a PC user, whereas you strike me as someone who’s not all that familiar with the PC as a platform), but these practices are actually commonplace in development.
It’s stupidity to not realise that if a feature isn’t perfect, beta is the time to take it out, refine it, put it back in and test it again. Because that way you have a large amount of users to try and break it with, moreso than you’d have in alpha.
What you’ve cited are development ideals, and whilst everyone tries to stick to such ideals, very few companies ever do.
Basically, what you’ve done is like pointing at the Ten Commandments and saying that this is what Humanity should be. Same thing. It’s a bit silly, to be kind.
Robo_1 said:
Well there you go then, if that’s the case fair enough. Fair to say though that Home is a huge project, and it’s hardly a surprise that it’s having obvious teething troubles.
G1GAHURTZ said:
“Except for that every MMO that ever was has removed features from a beta period to better code them and reintroduce them later.”
Now that’s interesting.
Can you give me an example of this? I mean any feature that was in a beta of an MMO, then was removed at a later stage in the beta, then put back in the final version, bug free?
Can you please give me an example of this?
Michael O'Connor said:
Great, now all those sexually confused males can run around with their female avatars and not have to come up with excuses for not voice chatting.
“It’s stupidity to not realise that if a feature isn’t perfect, beta is the time to take it out, refine it, put it back in and test it again.”
What exactly was “wrong” with the voice chat? Never mind that its something bog-level PCs half as powerful as a PS3 have been able to do for years, without even breaking a sweat.
“Except for that every MMO that ever was has removed features from a beta period to better code them and reintroduce them later.”
Examples, please.
sennasnit said:
All people do is play music through their headsets, wankers.
Quiiick said:
I really don’t understand why so many here are constantly bashing HOME.
I’ve been logged in almost every day for 4-5 hours since the open beta started a week ago and I really enjoy it a lot. Best social network I’ve seen so far. HOME definitely is the beginning of GAME 3.0.
Psychotext said:
4-5 hours a day?!? You’re a bit strange.
Blerk said:
What the hell are you doing in there for 4-5 hours a day? Do you still have time to play games?
Michael O'Connor said:
“What the hell are you doing in there for 4-5 hours a day? Do you still have time to play games?”
Or time to have a life?
Quiiick said:
@ Blerk
To be honest, I’m starting to get bored of most games in general.
I got bored by a lot games I played his year: Fallout 3, GTA4, Assassin’s Creed, Orange Box, MGS4, even though they all ARE great games.
The only exceptions this year for me were Uncharted and most of all “Linger in Shadows”.
I’m starting to get bored of games where you are being punished for not doing the “right thing” and therefore must die. All these stupid “survivor” games! Surviving is getting old.
I enjoy HOME basically because I like the graphic style and had some exceptionally interesting conversations with people from all over europe.
I chatted in english, german, and even using my very mediocre french …
Quiiick said:
@ Michael O’Connor
This argument about “real live” vs “computer/internet” is also getting a bit old and boring. It was fresh about 20 years ago but really doesn’t do anything more than stink nowadays.
Michael O'Connor said:
“This argument about “real live” vs “computer/internet” is also getting a bit old and boring. It was fresh about 20 years ago but really doesn’t do anything more than stink nowadays.”
I’d agree with you that the idea of a computer not being a valid means of communicating with people is an outdated and pretty archaic viewpoint… except when its for 4-5 hours a day.
That’s not healthy under any circumstances… physically, never mind emotionally.
Blerk said:
Yeah, you wouldn’t catch me hanging around on the internet all day talking shit with people who I’ve never me… oh.
Quiiick said:
@ Michael O’Connor
I said ALMOST every day!
Which is if I recount correctly up until now: 3x 4-5 hours.
@ Blerk
Robo_1 said:
I’ve put about two hours into Home total, and taken for what it is, I’ve enjoyed what’s there. The other night I was walking around and came across two groups of people just sitting down in a circle, chatting away and offering to send friend requests etc.
It’s bare bones stuff as it is, but you can see the social side of it taking off. It’s a shame the game launching feature isn’t their yet.
Home’s very nature is going to seem totally redundant to many people, whilst others are going to obsess over creating the perfect apartment and avatar. I think those who have never seen the point of the Home concept should just move on.
Sony have taken a big gamble on Home, and I honestly wouldn’t want to say if it’s going to descend into a ghost town, or grow into an active and entertaining social hub. I know Sony have said that all of the big third party publishers have signed on to create Home content, and if they (along with Sony) keep Home updated with genuinely interesting and interactive content, then hopefully it will evolve into something great.
Quiiick said:
@ Robo_1
Very good/interesting comment!
I really hope HOME will not, as you say, “descend into a ghost town”.
Sony needs to constantly update the service in the future and tie it to the games/trophies etc.
Giving away things (furniture, clothes, whatnot) free in exchange for earned trophies may help convince the undecided/hardcore audience.
Robo_1 said:
The trophies and trophy room was another feature that I’m surprised hasn’t made it into even this release. They certainly have a long road ahead of them! Oh and if anybody fancies meeting up over the PSN, my PSN id is the same as it is here
airdom said:
Haha, the update will come with even more Crappy game(cuz there are a lot of them) ads in home
airdom said:
Oh, and if Home keeps getting the bad press it keeps getting as of late…if it does “descend into a ghost town”, then i believe this will be a total FAIL for Sony. if it does indeed fail, i think the impact of this could be wayyyy worst than some people could expect.
Michael O'Connor said:
“I said ALMOST every day!
Which is if I recount correctly up until now: 3x 4-5 hours.”
I wouldn’t call that “almost” every day.
wickedman said:
they need to shut down Home, it really sucks
>:0