Although, you’re probably at your limit no doubt!

MUTE: Mute doesn’t always work. I agree wholeheartedly that if a feature that erased the offending user (both words and avatar) FOREVER would not only be awesome, but I’d even buy it. Personally the type of people I would mute or ignore are the type who aren’t going to change their actions the next day. It would be nice if the feature you mentioned was PERMANENT (that would also disallow stalking, which some tell me is a serious problem on Home).

FORCE FIELD: this may sound silly, but as a person who dresses as a female some, nothing is more annoying than some guy’s avatar dancing in your face. It would be nice if you could have an option that kept all users at a couple avatar’s space away. Kinda like a “stay back” button. WOOT!

Adults only room… It would be great if this feature were (as you and I discussed) accessible by some type of protected source. A great example of this would be a credit card. We’re already using it anyways. And I would also love to see a NO FRIENDS of the adult rule. In other words do not allow anyone in the room to bring a friend. Your mature friend might bring in a younger trouble maker. It would also need to be secure. Ever noticed how fast codes pass?
And since there is much talk here of the Homelings, I’ll just add that both the Homelings and the Gray Gamers are a serious asset to Home. If both were eliminated, I would log off and never return. (Though returning as a Hamster could be a possibility…..)

This article is just so on-the-button it’s uncanny. While I’m “only” 31 I know that I’ll never stop gaming (unless arthritis gets me!) for as long as I live, and the money I have invested already in Home is inconsequential to me because of the social fun I can have with it. I just wish I was old enough to join!

This article brings up an excellent point, and let’s face it; none of us are getting younger, so naturally the number of Grey Gamers is only going to increase. Sorry to be so blunt about it in my stating of the obvious, but it’s true. It’s only natural that as the generations age, there will be an increasing amount of the population who consider gaming as a part of their everyday life, and who have done so for some time.

And while the kids like to strut about, emptily thumping their chests as they believe they are the prime marketing demographic and the inspiration for every cutting edge development in technology, not just in gaming but in everyday life, they forget that they are, in fact, not the first ones to have believed this. Not to mention the economy isn’t where it’s at for many middle class families who, not too long ago, were getting whatever their child desired. Nowadays, it’s more like what the generation that I come from -- the last of those born to an analog world -- can recall; you want that CD player/NES/Computer? Great, here’s the classified ads, good luck.

Your very last point -- the one where you mention about improving the block feature to not only block text bubbles, but to block the viewing of the avatar altogether -- is a subject very near and dear to my heart and it’s something I’ve wanted to see Sony do for two years. I imagine the it’s not as easy as we think it ought to be, from a programming perspective, as each avatar occupies a piece of digital “space” otherwise we’d be running and walking through each other all the time. So it probably will take a lot of testing on the backside before they include it in any upcoming version updates.

So while I’m not a grey gamer yet, I am a greying gamer (though I must confess, the only grey hair I have seen to date is in my right eyebrow, and I usually pluck the sucker), and it would be prudent of Sony to take a good long look at the demographics of their buyers. Mind you, it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if, five, ten years down the road (should Home still exist in this format), you’ll see an article complaining about. “back in my day, the Cabin personal space was only five dollars!”