I’ve been on Home since the closed public beta and I’ve witnessed the slow degradation of it’s content with the addition of each new skanky large breasted outfit, adult diaper and soother wearing fettish freak, and muscle bound meat head outfit available for purchase. Hey, if those things are your bag and you aren’t hurting anyone then let your freak flag fly… but for Sony to allow this kind of garbage on a social platform that is supposed to be family friendly is simply irresponsible, at the very least.

I find it laughable that you can get reported for telling some noob or perv-troll who’s waving his junk in someones face to “fk off”, and get suspended or possibly banned for it. I find it more laughable that their word censor is so easily avoided by removing letters etc., and that it censors legitimate words like Fukushima, which completely interferes with anyone having an actual conversation about real world events and other normal conversations on a site that’s supposedly a social platform.

Sony is the ultimate troll -- X7
All one needs to do is sit in any space on Home (preferably a crappy meat market dance club where 14 year olds pretend to be adults hitting on each other), and listen to the conversations of people who talk about X7. Their mentality and immaturity stands out like a pile of warm dog crap neatly curled atop a fresh blanket of snow. Angry little urban gangsta wannabe’s and 16 year old ho’s with tramp stamps partially covered by their g-strings riding proudly outside their yoga pants is all that comes to mind when I listen to X7 fan’s converse with each other. You can also often spot them by their illegible “tags” they throw out in the middle of their inane conversations, or in their club names and PSN ID comments.

I’m all for companies making money to generate income to put back into their content, but X7 seems to be yet another irresponsible way for Sony to go about it. Perpetuating trolling, exclusion, degradation of women, thug life, and pop star trash clubs where I’d expect to see Miley Cyrus letting Justin Beiber pee on her while she licks the stripper pole are what X7 is basically about.

I almost decided to go in one day because I wanted something a week in advance and didn’t want to wait, and then I remembered the people I see on a daily bases who frequent and hang out there. Thank goodness I can see other peoples conversations on Home. Though, I’d usually rather not.

As for Bonzos point, I completely understand your sentiment completely, which I why I think Home should be for 18 + only. Without x7 existing I wouldn’t let a child of mine anywhere near it. They can do it behind my back, where I’m happy and ignorant!

Well written piece by the way.

I have full access to the space, but haven’t spent more than 5 minutes total. I go in, snag my freebie, check out the discount deal, then get out. Rinse and repeat once per week. Do it fast enough, and the rest of the patrons’ avatars aren’t even be loaded up by the time you leave.

That said, I don’t begrudge Sony for doing this; they are in business to make money. They don’t need to make a special space to cater to older gamers like myself; I already spend hundreds of dollars annually on Home. But if this is what it takes to get the younger gamers spending, then I hope it’s a success. The more money Home brings in, the more resources Sony will spend on improving the service.

I’m going to chalk this one up to a difference in values. I think it’s lame, but many might not and that’s ok. What I really, really dislike about x7 is the division thing. Sony has in Home created an amazing experience that is for everybody, So many people have worked so hard making this a place for all of us. Places like this cheapens that.In the end, spaces come and spaces go. x7 down the road will be empty and HSM will be doing a forgotten space article about it and we’ll all have a good laugh! Fantastic article Bonzo.

As for the atmosphere, whether it’s realistic or not, I don’t know as I’ve never been in such a place. Is it like the Playboy Mansion? I wonder how the latter would go over on home. I never been there.

Gimme’ a hole in the wall bar any ole day. The ones I’ve been in have had pretty nice people in them. I wonder how a hole in the wall bar would go over over in HOME.

I don’t care for the paparazzi rehab remark.

So times passed I got my account back and so X7 came up, I was oh amazing a place without noobs will be nice! And so when I arrive I see what you just write on this article.

But even so I relax and enjoy to be with my friends there, and since I’m a very open mind person, and very sexual I made a sexual joke with 2 friends of mine. One of the common friends around called my attention saying to me I shouldn’t say such things cause if a Moderator or anyone report me I would be screwed.

And I was: Wtf? I can’t make a sexual joke, being a woman of 28 years old In a place like this that everything is about sex? Are you f****** kidding with me?

So this is the point. They make clothes and places that is about sex but if you say “penis” or “vagina” you can get a warning or a suspension… Bunch of Hypocrites don’t you think?

Anyway I liked and agree with everything you posted here