Comments on: Returning Home

By: Kassadee Marie

Kassadee Marie — Tue, 17 May 2011 06:56:51 +0000

I jumped on Home and went straight to CP and up on the bench. It felt weird and disorienting. Was I Home? I saw some friends and we re-connected. It was great, but was I really Home? I went to Aurora and collected some orbs. Was I dreaming still? So, having glitched, re-connected and mini-gamed, what was missing? I went back to CP and “my” spot on the bench to think. I listened to random conversations and then I noticed it! A PM from an unknown that read “Hi, sexy”. Yes! Yes!!! This is Home. I am Home at last!

By: Burbie52

Burbie52 — Mon, 16 May 2011 12:40:57 +0000

I went into Home for a few minutes on early Sunday morning after I noticed it was up. I only stayed for a few minutes as I was tired and needed sleep. Just wanted to check and see if my stuff was there and it was. I talked to 2 friends who asked for invites for a few minutes then left. In the morning I messaged all of my Grey Gamers about this coming Friday’s Big Meet which we will use to reconnect as a group, then later in the day I played RDR with a few friends to reacquaint myself with the online portion of the game, but I didn’t go into Home, I was too busy IRL to do it, I am sure I will get back into Home a bit today, Monday, but during this outage I have just become more busy in my life because of work and family, so it may not be as much as it used to be. I believe this would have happened irregardless of the outage though, as my life has changed a bit in the last few weeks.

By: backarch

backarch — Mon, 16 May 2011 06:39:02 +0000

oh, and olivia, who asked to add me, which i soooo gladly did. WOO HOO!

By: backarch

backarch — Mon, 16 May 2011 06:38:19 +0000

keara, i saw vic, debbie and eddie baby while i was on. other than that, some of my odd friends were on.

By: NorseGamer

NorseGamer — Mon, 16 May 2011 03:56:36 +0000

::laughs:: Nopers, didn’t have it pre-written. Home came back online and I dashed out this article as fast as I could.

I’ll admit that the Great PSN Outage didn’t affect me as it affected many, simply because I rarely have the chance to get into Home these days anyway. Between work and HSM, I rarely have leisure time.

That said, I ran a few celebratory laps around SodiumTwo’s tracks last night, just to enjoy having Home back.

By: Travis-Travis

Travis-Travis — Mon, 16 May 2011 01:33:51 +0000

Wish I could help, but the network is down for maintenance. *insert furious rage face*

By: keara22hi

keara22hi — Sun, 15 May 2011 22:49:17 +0000

Please help out a starving writer: do a head count of how many friends have returned and how many are still out. I want to write an article about the social impact of this outage. I started a topic in the HSMForum for this purpose. Please put your head-count in there. So far, I am amazed at how many bounced back within the first 12 hours.

By: CrimsonWhimsy

CrimsonWhimsy — Sun, 15 May 2011 22:48:26 +0000

I’m holding my breath til the dolphins start to sing again.. and re-learning how to play the air defense game for Aurora >.< (my scores are now pitiful)

By: Terra_Cide

Terra_Cide — Sun, 15 May 2011 22:43:12 +0000

Real gamers don’t sleep. They wait.

By: deuce_for2

deuce_for2 — Sun, 15 May 2011 22:24:16 +0000

I think they went to sleep.

By: Terra_Cide

Terra_Cide — Sun, 15 May 2011 22:06:31 +0000

Just in case people from the UK haven’t checked yet, PSN is up for you.

By: Orion

Orion — Sun, 15 May 2011 19:18:48 +0000

Just like Gideon, I thought that I would be more elated than I was, when I finally was back online. It was sure good to say hi to those I wasn’t able keep in touch with, but Home doesn’t have the allure that it once had. The downtime gave me a chance to play some of the games that I have had lined up to play. I’m right in the middle Dragon Age Origins and loving it. Read Keara’s review of DA2 and can’t wait to play it next. I’m sure that in the weeks to come I will be drawn back into Home, but for now I’m just having fun gaming.

By: cthulu93

cthulu93 — Sun, 15 May 2011 18:20:15 +0000

Something was different last night,couldn’t quite put my fingers on it but it seemed to me like every1 i met was a brand new user.Lot’s of unrecognized names and lots of questions about how things are done,maybe this outage brought more ppl in than it chased away,not sure entirely about that.It is good to be back Home but now rebuilding old relationships begins,hope it is easier than it seemed it was gonna be last night.Out of my entire friends list only 10 ppl or so were on last night,i’m hoping it’s because the return caught them unawares and not indicative of something else.The very 1st thing i did was to send a message to a friend of mine,in this situation i missed ppl much more than any area on Home or even Home in it’s entirety,btw i noticed last night that the leaderboard scores for “Trigger Happy in a Box” were gone there were zero’s the whole way down and any new scores didn’t get saved on the leaderboard.I hope this gets fixed but if not i guess RayBladeX and i will have to re-new our rivalry for the top spot,lol.

By: Terra_Cide

Terra_Cide — Sun, 15 May 2011 17:08:32 +0000

Have you employed the strategy on how to deal with the crotch-hounds I suggested in chat the other night yet?

By: Keara22hi

Keara22hi — Sun, 15 May 2011 16:53:42 +0000

You have pet simians, Cheeky? And they drink tea? You should take that act on the road.

By: Keara22hi

Keara22hi — Sun, 15 May 2011 16:51:29 +0000

I made the rounds of all the old hangouts. Then wandered down to the beach. Talked to some new people and added them to the FL. Still looking for the old gang. Maybe some of them didn’t get the news yet? Maybe they gave up and left? Not quite ready to celebrate.

By: xx96791DEATHxx

xx96791DEATHxx — Sun, 15 May 2011 16:40:43 +0000

I spent 5 minutes jumping up in cheer. Then within 10 mins I was solicited to be in a family and had my crotched sniffed twice….Ahhhhhhhhh…..good to be back on Home….

By: Gideon

Gideon — Sun, 15 May 2011 16:24:40 +0000

I was surprised that I wasn’t elated. I was just like….”cool deal”. Sort of a return to a different way of doing things. Not better… just different. I actually enjoyed my time off of Home immensely. I stayed incredibly busy the entire time. So I guess I’m feeling a little melancholy about the whole thing.

I just wanna know… When did you write this Norse, did you have it waiting on the sidelines for as soon as Home came up?

By: Nos

Nos — Sun, 15 May 2011 15:08:50 +0000

Returning Home. Ahhhh…
HSM, please forward the following message:

Dear Real Life,

It’s been a slice. But since Home has return, we just can’t keep seeing each other like this.

Will be seeing you.
Nos

— end transmission --

By: backarch

backarch — Sun, 15 May 2011 15:08:27 +0000

the first hour im back on, im in the secret basement of the sodium hub talking dirty to vic in his homeling suit. ahh, home again. no big bad bugs yet, kicked out trying to load a place, but thats it so far.