I really dont think I’ll ever say “Damn I wanted to buy The Last Guardian but I just bought that outfit in home. Oh well. sucks to be me.”

And this is with just $$. You say your game-time budget isnt effected by the internet? I don’t know about you but before the internet (yes. I remember before the internet) I spent quite a bit more time playing games… of course I didnt have a job or bills then either, but the point is the same. Without Netflix, Home, HSM, Hulu or any of the silly things I fill my time with I would play a LOT more games.

I don’t have more info on what’s going to happen with The Hub but I suspect the “quests” to be short little things that take no time to complete. Just something to get you coming on Home each day.

Quest: Play this new minigame in this space. 10 mintues. done.

NOW. that being said. I really think Sony should have announced this THROUGH Home first. Made a video like the GDC 2007 video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZY2vwlh5-g) and put it in the theater.

Sorry Keara. I dont use facebook…. Now… if Home used facebook I might just consider it. heheh

And I still stand by my statement that what you’re referring to is an extreme case and not the norm.

As to why I don’t feel they’ll compete is that I have no intention of buying the majority of the disk games out there (I’m picky, and I don’t care for FPS), so it’s money they aren’t going to see anyways. And I’m sure I’m not the only one.

There are people out there who own PS3s, who let them collect dust, waiting for the next title they do want to play to come out, never realizing that there is an alternative to not gaming at all in the interim -- and it’s Home. Now should they stumble upon Home (since, from what I’ve read, that seems to be the common story of how people come to Home), who’s to say they they’ll open their wallets to it -- but they’ll never spend any money there if they never know it exists. Those are the people I’m thinking they’re trying to court, not the person who spends every night of their life logged into the lobby at COD.

“Many items deemed failures and pulled from the stores” -- seriously? Again, that is more of an extreme, outside the mean norm (as is being away for seven months, I might add) instead of what happens regularly. Home isn’t Wal-Mart. As for missing my money, they could easily have been missing it for that whole time -- it is possible to go long stretches of time not purchasing items in Home. And for my math -- I wasn’t aware I was doing any, hence why I added “or year.”

Let’s put it this way -- I could have stayed in Home that whole time instead of playing Final Fantasy, and not bought a single thing (yeah, it happens). Conversely when I returned to Home, I could have easily gone through the back catalog of items for sale and bought them (which in fact I did, when I came back to the PSN after being away for seven months, due to being without a PS3 altogether). They may have lost that money in that fiscal month, but not necessarily that fiscal quarter or year.

True competition would have me obtaining an xBox instead of a PS3.

when Call of Duty:Blk-Ops 1st came out last year more “fams” went out of business from lack of interest than went out of business from the PSN outage.

…And that’s a bad thing, how? (Sorry, not really a fan of “fams” from what I’ve learned of them)

When Final Fantasy XIII came out, I left Home, too. In my mind, I was only spending time in Home while waiting for that game to come out anyways. Did I leave forever? Nope. So where’s the competition? If it was true competition, I’d stay with one and never return to the other.

What you’re talking about, from my understanding, are extreme cases, and yes, they will happen. But I highly doubt they will be the majority norm.

“I really don’t see bench walking, saucer pop or chainswing as being cornerstones of the PlayStation Home community.”

That almost made me spit my coffee out from laughing.

Now that said, if you had added the word “poker” to your statement, you’d have all and sundry down your throat. But it is something I would add, simply because in my corner of the community, the rise and loss of the poker rooms was a mere blip on the radar screen, and those who clamor for their return remind me more of a (very) vocal minority than a majority.

Different courses for different horses -- and now there’ll just be more of them. And those who feel displaced will find other thing to do and different places to haunt.

The modern learning paradox states that the things we fear most as adults -- learning, changing and accepting uncertainty -- are what create security today. And Home is about to go through such change.