Comments on: Free-Range Chicken

By: Femaelstrom

Femaelstrom — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:43:16 +0000

I want to fly my Nebula Airship where I want and see other ships as I fly willy-nilly through the atmoshpere.This would be awesome. I want to walk on the streets below the Primarch’s Vigilarium, walk the catwalk outside the Treehouse Home, stroll outside the creature cantina in Mos Eisley…these are a few of the things I would like thought of as the creative teams develop new and more imaginative places. They are all great, but there is always a sense of “…if they had just done that…”

By: Leonig Inglasias Smith Kline Welcome

Leonig Inglasias Smith Kline Welcome — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:47:24 +0000

We could do all this and more, until the day Sony decided to patch a harmless non-disruptive glitch. There is a way around that patch, but for anyone with any real money spent on Home, breaking TOS is undesirable.

I have 25 glitched spaces that I can explore.

By: MsLiZa

MsLiZa — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:26:43 +0000

“Damn you, glass walls!”

Nicely done, LMAO

By: Burbie52

Burbie52 — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:14:31 +0000

There are spaces in Home that I would love to explore more, notably the garden outside the Luxury Lakeside.
I think that is a body of water like the one in the Blasters Paradise or Tropical Beach is there you should at least be allowed to go into it, not be stuck at the shoreline staring into it. If just those small barriers could be extended it would enhance the experience of the space greatly.

By: Olivia_Allin

Olivia_Allin — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:09:26 +0000

While I to enjoy exploring and would love to walk where ever my eyes may lead me, there is also something to be said for the stimulation of the imagination. If all my questions are answered on how something might look like up close then that is dealt with and the mystery is over. And what if it didn’t live up to what I had imagined, I think I would sometimes rather wonder than to be let down. The human body is a work of art, but often it is more alluring if not totally exposed. Letting ones mind fill in the blank has its rewards as well. Don’t think I don’t want to wander out of the ant farm and explore. But sometime I do that while safely trekking through my mind.

By: Godzprototype

Godzprototype — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:15:43 +0000

Now for all the people who look for the edges this suggestion would be an excellent idea, because it would give them somewhere to go once they reached that edge.

By: Kassadee Marie

Kassadee Marie — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:16:31 +0000

My own “wish list” of what I would like Sony and others (3P devs) to change in my private spaces would be almost 2000 words long. (I know because I wrote it.) But, as I said at New Year’s time, what I mostly wish from them is that they pay more attention to details. And a list explaining that in detail would probably be twice as long!

By: LostRainbow

LostRainbow — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:38:44 +0000

This is a cool article and is something I have thought about often. My favorite space is the Tropical Escape and I have often wanted to grab a raft and float around in the water along the beach. In fact I sometimes try to push myself and try to go in. LOL. It would be cool if there was something to unlock to allow you in. Also in Santorini Greece, I would also love to be able to jump from terrace to terrace. On the Santorine Yacht it would be cool to be able to go swimming off the ledge or even tubing. As for the Harbor Studio, I would love to be able to go down to the town. I sometimes use the telescope to see if I can see something new. In my Lakeside Cabin, I would love to be able to take a boat out and watch a sunset. I was thinking maybe in Hollywood Hills to be able to ride in the blimp or be able to actually swim or float in the pool, but at least you can walk around in the pool. Lastly on the new Sunset Yacht, it would be cool to be able to board the plane or the other thing on there and have a birds eye view. The scenery on there is so breathtaking.

But anyway, glad there are other people out there who think the same way that I do. I enjoyed reading your point of view on it all!!!

By: NorseGamer

NorseGamer — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:40:21 +0000

A Myst Island personal estate for Home would be *insane.* Aside from the amazing atmosphere, there would be unlockable puzzles to solve. And upon solving all the puzzles, a portal would open up to the next personal estate (perhaps Myst’s Channelwood Age or somesuch), which would activate upon the new space being released.

*That* is how to do interlinked estates.

By: Estim20

Estim20 — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:56:55 +0000

Another great article!

I agree that it is incredibly tantalizing to walk outside current boundaries. It teases us immensely to include a view we cannot explore, whether it is Santorini’s surrounding town or the landscape Planetland. It would be so grand to explore more of the environment.

I suspect there are technological concerns, which affect everything from lag to price of entry, of course. It’s still likely possible to amp up the capacity to explore in some fashion but it may come at a price, perhaps in way we hadn’t initially expected.

One issue might be: would it make Home seem more like a game to the general audience? The level of exploration we dream of may levy comparisons to MMOs and thus encourage discussions of creating quests to fill this landscape. The larger the area, the more we want to interact with (a potential Skyrim effect?).

This of course raise the question of: how much would they charge for such a thing? How about updates? For either, I would enjoy that Myst concept translated into Home. We could have a sandbox space that develops a mystery. It would be great as an experiment and if they’re wanting to adapt the space linkage to it, it could potentially work. Plus theu could charge just for that.

An idea, though. lol

By: Gideon

Gideon — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:38:09 +0000

Yes, yes and more yes! Every single Home personal and public space that gives us a view of a world that will likely be forever un-explorable teases me to no end! I wish Home was fully explorable “on foot” where we could go from place to place experiencing all there is between.

Unfortunately, that’s not what Home is.

By: Kid Fleetfoot

Kid Fleetfoot — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:25:28 +0000

Yes, yes, yes!!! I too want to walk in Creek Falls it is so frustrating that I can’t it’s like that beautiful movie starlet one will never even meet. I am going to the Glade and cry but I don’t know whether to cry out of joy of beauty or the sadness of wanting and not being able to have. There’s two kinds of teardrops.

I wonder how much I would pay for the ability to walk the forbidden valley. I know I would pay, but how much? I did pay $10.99 for worthless chips which I lost quick enough but I did have fun.

That’s a good article it certainly is even if it made me frustrated. Oh well
Bye for now.

By: deuce_for2

deuce_for2 — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 06:49:47 +0000

The things you like have been goals of mine to make happen. I think Home should not have doors that cannot open (unless they are boarded shut). I don’t like invisible walls. When they were going to put invisible railings on the Tycoon Penthouse, my suggestion was visible railings or none. In my new game space you will see the camera actually able to go out past the railing and not just pushed up against you by an invisible wall.

I am hoping for some dramatic moves forward with spaces bigger than anything that currently exists.

The problem is the cost to build versus what people will pay for it. The Mansion was a Sony experiment. If it did not make money, it would have been fine. Most third party developers could not withstand a failed experiment of that size. Having such a large vocal opposition I am sure made third party developers less interested in trying the experiment.

Since it was a success as far as I have been told, I am sure others are thinking about doing something similar. I know I am.