I wouldn’t call that “almost” every day.

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.

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.

@ Blerk

I’d agree with you that the idea of a computer not being a valid means of communicating with people is an outdated and pretty archaic viewpoint… except when its for 4-5 hours a day.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.

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 …

Or time to have a life?

“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.

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?

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.

If you’re removing features during the beta, it’s a very bad sign.

Lambast them for slow development if you like, but it seems daft to slag off a beta for being a beta.

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.