Let's Stay Home Tomorrow

looks like what second life should be....

well I think this shows once again that Sony still have no idea how this whole internet and networking thing works.

They should call Microsoft or Blizzard and have them send over a "Dummies guide to online gaming and server capacity" because two years after launch they should know better.

I think Home would be a lot more interesting if it was the default PS3 dashboard... like, you turn on your PS3, and oh, there you are... in your PS3... maybe you're in your little virtual house... then you can virtually go outside, virtually explore the world, and then find games to start up...
it'd be like Virtual Reality 0.1

honestly, Home would be more interesting once we actually have virtual reality games...
i'll wait for the PS9

It's STILL not out in the UK and it's coming close to 8:30pm. My guess Sony messed up the servers somewhere. PSN was REALLY laggy when i was trying to get to the store.

Its about noonish in America and still nothing.

Still not out in the uk. what time is it supposed to be hitting anyway?

I was excited about this october of last year... or was it october of the year before last?

Hopefully my system won't break when i download this thing...

About bloody time.

It's hard to complain since it is free but I could care less about Home

Home still looks dumb. Oh well, at least it finally came out.

 n was 3 goof balls rapping in the middle of the bowling alley."

You can say it's free all day but that only makes home worth trying. But unless one person can tell me the reason behind home then I don't see what the hype is about. I used it and the coolest thing I seen was 3 goof balls rapping in the middle of the bowling alley.

I've been excited for home for since it was announced. Too bad I don't have my ps3 at college though. :/

I'll check it out, but the avatars are lame just like it is on every system and I still have no clue what the purpose of home is for. It's buggy,laggy.choppy long loading and its basically advirtisement city.

lol good post man. i can't believe these guy is so SICKENED by advertisements in HOME, as if it would be any different in REAL LIFE. i can't imagine somebody logging onto home and being absolutely horrified by a POSTER!!! OMG on the wall, or a VIDEO ZOMG!!! on the wall. oh the horror, THE HORROR!!! *VOMITS FROM BEING SO SICKENED*"

"Sanj said:

"People keep saying that they'd "rather go outside and meet people", but what's the difference between this and say...posting on an internet forum/comments section of an article? I mean, why don't you just go outside and talk there instead of coming here? Why even use facebook or myspace? It's just a 3D hub for people to meet and play games..."

You're spot on.

Endogene said:

"Sanj said:

It's just a 3D hub for people to meet and play games."

Perhaps people can meet up and play games but Home is also the most sickening marketing tool there is..."

If it was a choice between seeing that "SPOTLIGHT" advert load up on the NXE every time I turn on my console or flying Red Bull planes through hoops -- I'd pick the planes every time. And let us not forget, I DON'T EVEN HAVE TO GO TO THE RED BULL HOME SPACE IF I'M SO OUTRAGED WITH THE ADVERTISING.

Gah did you guys stop watching TV aswell? I mean, advertising seems to get you SO mad. I'm all for creative advertising here. I'll never buy a Red Bull (keeps me awake at night) but I'll happily fly their digital planes.

I honestly do understand the scepticism and the criticism but like I've said a bajillion times already - you don't have to use it. It can sit there on your XMB like your "Life With Playstation" button and you need ever, ever, ever click on it.

I personally am quite excited to see what the likes of Disney etc. put on there.

EDIT: Oh and while I'm here - can I stop hearing this "dud0rz 360 haz Netflix its betterz than bluray" - get with the picture people... most of the world doesn't even have Netflix yet.

EDIT 2: And yes I will continue to keep defending Home because I think people are being unrealistically unfair on it. If Sony were saying this is £9.99, dude if Sony were saying this is £4.99 or whatever... I'd totally not buy it and I'd be outraged. But I repeat again - it's FREE. How the hell can you complain about freebies that you never have to use?

I mean you guys must turn down free promotional items they hand out in the streets too right? "Blatant advertising, ghastly company"."

didn't even get an open beta key like promised...  .__.

"Is that superman 64?  FLY THROUGH RINGS?  Go fuck yourself sony.  What good is HOME without Everquest Online Adventures 2, or WoW or Justice League Online?  Without MMOs home is pointless nonsense.  Weee lets sit around and ask each other R U REEEL GRRRLLL????? TITS!!!!"

I got a beta invite recently, I tried it out to have a look at it. I really couldn't see the point to it at all, its a sluggish experience where you end up spending most of your time looking at download and loading bars. Its just full of adds. In my opinion it was wasted resources and effort, and fails to improve the online experience in a meaningful way.

If anyone wants me i'll be doing laps in a little Edge 540 .  All you nay sayers can go eat a fat one !

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Does anyone really care...... I mean really care?

It looks kinda cool I guess, I'll see when I buy a PS3. 

if blatant advertising means free games "like that air-race thing, COUNT ME IN !

Only played the Beta once. Seems very bland and useless but thats probably because I don't know anyone else with a PS3 so it was just me and a bunch of strangers watching SOCOM featurettes and Far Cry 2 trailers. Fun.

On paper, it sounds like a bad idea. In practice? We'll see. I don't have a PS3 and I have no intention on getting one, yet I'm interested in seeing how this turns out.

to color peoples expectations, after spending an hour making a virtual me, I sat down alone in my empty virtual apartment staring out a window and noticed that I was doing the exact same thing in real life, and somehow my avatar began to weep.

also, I had a bubble machine.

Hopefully it will be a good addition for the PS3. I haven't gotten to use it in the previous betas, but it sounds pretty cool.  Maybe it will give xbox live some meaningful competition finally

yeah lets not.

I was in the closed beta. I made a dude then walked around the apartment. I then tried to go to the plaza, which brought up a download screen...OFF! Definitely was not interested in the beta. Maybe my tune will change now that everyone is in on it.

@ jervo - That's what I like to hear, someone who has been using it and has a real opinion. Thank you.

honestly, i don't really care much for Home, but its free so whatevs...if it happens to be awesome, great, if it happens to suck, it doesn't really make a difference to me.

don't know...

"People keep saying that they'd "rather go outside and meet people", but what's the difference between this and say...posting on an internet forum/comments section of an article? I mean, why don't you just go outside and talk there instead of coming here? Why even use facebook or myspace? It's just a 3D hub for people to meet and play games..."

"Sanj said:

It's just a 3D hub for people to meet and play games."

Perhaps people can meet up and play games but Home is also the most sickening marketing tool there is..."

Why are you people bitching about advertising?  It's free so STFU!

Wow, the first thing you see is Red Bull advertising?  They've loaded it up to the brim with advertising.  I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want that crap in my home.

I'll be there. I wasn't in the other beta, so it's a curiosity thing.

Ever since I saw an advert for a Samsung phone on the walls of a supposedly "grimy rock dive bar" in Guitar Hero III, I've been against in-game advertising. I only really liked the use of billboards in Crackdown to try and shift me a copy of Deathproof. It almost did, but then I remembered that it's shit.

The entire concept of buying a PS3, and having other companies try to sell you stuff through your purchase sickens me.

Is that superman 64?  FLY THROUGH RINGS?  Go fuck yourself sony.  What good is HOME without Everquest Online Adventures 2, or WoW or Justice League Online?  Without MMOs home is pointless nonsense.  Weee lets sit around and ask each other R U REEEL GRRRLLL????? TITS!!!!

I will be there with bells on. FINALLY!!

It's just a 3D hub for people to meet and play games."

People keep saying that they'd "rather go outside and meet people", but what's the difference between this and say...posting on an internet forum/comments section of an article? I mean, why don't you just go outside and talk there instead of coming here? Why even use facebook or myspace? It's just a 3D hub for people to meet and play games...

"I  like the idea of a virtual environment to meet up with friends and stuff, could be funny, but given its a virtual environment and they could have let there imagination run wild, the environment looks extremely stale, just seems like one of those hyper-commercial beach resorts which are built in 6 months and lack any real character, am I alone in this opinion?"

nope

Damn. This thing has taken way too long. Granted, I don't have a PS3. But still, it looks still kindof cool.

I'll be there, and when it comes out, it will either be a major disappointment or my next best friend.

I'll be home tomorrow.

I  like the idea of a virtual environment to meet up with friends and stuff, could be funny, but given its a virtual environment and they could have let there imagination run wild, the environment looks extremely stale, just seems like one of those hyper-commercial beach resorts which are built in 6 months and lack any real character, am I alone in this opinion? 

Stupid...

"Suck it Sony, this will be interesting and all the backlash as to whether this was worth the hype and wait.  Although I will say Netflix on Xbox is still better.  Like Vinny pointed out yesterday, you can do real things while you have your Xbox pump out 5 seasons of Hercules: the Legendary Journeys"