Comments on: Coping With Home Deprivation Syndrome

By: Mel

Mel — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:50:30 +0000

I love the article T. I am on the other side of the fence though with Home. I remember a time where I thought the same way about it and enjoyed the odd conversation with adults about random and trivial things. I just realized that Home wasn’t healthy for myself personally. I always hid the fact (still do) from my family and friends that I even went on there because I found it to humiliating to explain. Like where would I even start? I remember times when Home would go down for updates or the constant kicks because you entered your start menu in CP… Grrrrr. If that isn’t enough to send you into a tizzy I don’t know what is. But I then realized that I become distant from my real life and didn’t make enough time for a lot of other things i.e my RL friends, family etc… And the drama that always encompassed Home and it’s members was too much for me to take on in my own life. I think it’s a passing phase for most people. I knew and still know a great deal of people I use to communicate with on Home but we have all since moved on from those days. I find it easier to talk to someone with a voice rather then a text. I find it easier to turn off my ps3 when I am just leaving a voice chat or a game rather than trying to log of Home only to log on again 2 hours later 0_0 Home was a lovely place to sample for me and I met a great deal of friends from there but I am definitely I less stressed person without it.

By: Burbie52

Burbie52 — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 01:38:29 +0000

Greta article Terra as always. So far I have been lucky I guess. The longest I have been out of Home is a few days and those were by choice because I was out of town, as I am at this very moment. I do miss it when I am gone though. I love doing things with my club members and friends and also playing games with them online. I don’t know what I would do if something was wrong with my PS3, I have a warranty so it would get fixed, but I know I would probably have those withdrawals you have spoken of. I might even go buy another one so I would have a back up lol. Good read!

By: Terra_Cide

Terra_Cide — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:52:44 +0000

@Norse -- I’m only two years your senior, and if I can do it, you most certainly can too.

I also have only had my iPod for about a year, and iTunes still sets off my Voluntary Tourettes.

@DJ -- Funny you mention DOS (and yes, I remember it)… A former colleague of mine actually likened men to DOS, and you know, I kind of agree with his assessment.

By: Dj_Tenchu

Dj_Tenchu — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:07:40 +0000

hey norse, remember DOS??
XD

By: NorseGamer

NorseGamer — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:49:41 +0000

::laughs:: I’m the first to admit that I’m something of a luddite when it comes to technology. I stare at most of this stuff like an ape staring at the monolith at the beginning of “2001”.

Now, keep in mind that I’m not anti-technology by any means. I’m just one of the last products of the analog age. To me, the moment when Han Solo smacks the console on the Millennium Falcon with his fist in order to get it to work is something I completely empathize with.

As for an iPod…I just got one last year. I know, I know, we’re about to colonize Mars, and I *just* (sort of) figured out iTunes. God help us if they ever come out with a TARDIS.

By: Kid Fleetfoot

Kid Fleetfoot — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:11:31 +0000

Of course you know that, Norsefail, about the flash drive. You went to Wal-Mart to buy an iPod, right?
snicker :;

By: Cthulu93

Cthulu93 — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 23:39:00 +0000

And what exactly constitutes “gang’ activity?

By: Terra_Cide

Terra_Cide — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 22:35:28 +0000

[more geek mode]If you’re of a handy with a screwdriver-type, and technically inclined, you can also just buy a 500mb harddrive (I think it’s Western Digital that makes the most compatible) and upgrade your PS3 yourself[/more geek mode]

… Not that I know anything about that, as that would void your warranty… >.> *whistles*

By: mnemonth

mnemonth — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 20:31:52 +0000

I feel that Fam’s on home should be dealt with in a quick manner once someone reports fam(gang) activity to Sony.

By: Cthulu93

Cthulu93 — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 20:00:09 +0000

At this moment i am deleting and re-installing home thanks to my data getting corrupted.This happened about 2 min. after i arrived at motorstorm and stumbled upon a”fam”fight.Idk how they corrupted my data exactly but i’m positive 1 of these two”fams”was responsible,people were getting frozen and booted right and left.This isn’t the 1st or even 2nd time this has happened in a similiar situation,so i’m sure there is a way for user’s to corrupt other user’s data,intentionally or not.I for one would appreciate it if sony would fix that problem asap.I didn’t have back-up so i’ll be getting another make over but it’s been my experience that most everything else was saved on sony’s servers,i’m hoping that’s still the case.In this case i was merely a by-stander,i had friends on both sides of the room,and was just hoping to enjoy some oratorial jousting so i doubt that i was targeted but getting data corrupted on home is a long-standing problem and one that seems to be ignored by sony.I’m notoriously unsavvy in the area of computers so the reasons for our data not being auto. stored/saved may be known to many of you but to me this just seems like a needlessly cruel trick that sony chooses to ignore.

By: KLCgame

KLCgame — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:38:35 +0000

I just use my terabyte external hard drive to hold all of my information on my PS3 and I could hold three more 250mb PS3s.

By: NorseGamer

NorseGamer — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:28:35 +0000

(long pause)

Of course I knew that. Of course. What, you think I’m some Norsefail? Ha!

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>-_->

::squealing tires in the vague direction of the nearest Wal-Mart::

By: Terra_Cide

Terra_Cide — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:11:37 +0000

Um… None of you know that you can back up all your PS3’s save data to a USB flash drive that you can pick up at Wal-Mart for about $12? (She says in a rather shy, über-geek voice.)

That’s what I did… Mind you, I discovered this quite by accident; I looked at ports on the console where you charge your controllers, looked at my flash drive, and thought, “hmm… I wonder…” And there you have it. I found I can also charge my iPod there and play my music, too. It doesn’t come up in any discernible order, but since I at least love all my music that’s on it, I don’t particularly care.

By: NorseGamer

NorseGamer — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:00:30 +0000

I absolutely love this article. Who amongst us has not experienced the sheer OMGWTFBBQ mania of not being able to get into Home? Even when you *know* Home is about to get shut down for its weekly maintenance, you can’t help but be indignant when you get the Error D4512 Network Connection Lost screen.

One thing that both Joanna Dark and IrishSiren have done — and it’s a smart move — is write down or take photos of their avatar settings. This way, when something like a YLOD strikes (which, I agree with Cheeky, happens far too often), at least you can quickly rebuild your avatar on a new machine.

Granted, with cloud-saving becoming an option for Plus members, perhaps the future will bring less of this grief.

By: CheekyGuy

CheekyGuy — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:59:18 +0000

This is the 2nd PS3 that I have bought, since my 1st YLOD and i absolutely HATED being away from my friends on Home, I hated having to wait for my PS3 to be repaired and even when it WAS repaired (This is the fatboy model) it did the YLOD thing again :S
(Que, GRR, ROAR, stomp on the ground)
I ordered the slim model, and maybe this was paranoia that was driving me to do this, I went out and bought a FAN for it, I tried not to leave it for a long amount of time. I do play games but mostly multiplayers that i can drop in and out of.

I HATED that I had to redecorate all of my Personal spaces again. Some of my trophies and achievements were lost from my thousands of hours of playing.

I thought my PS3 worked similar like a PC, that it had a Heat Sync Cradle so that it didnt burn out from long usage? (I still don’t know if it has this feature)

My suggestions for the next Playstation is to have them built to LAST, have huge fans built into them to take the long punishing hours of play. (Especially when playing RPGs, you have no idea how big those games are. Or when exploring on HOME.)

I keep saying that this is the last gaming console I will ever buy. But I did say that when i owned the PS2..