Comments on: Do You Want To Trade?

By: Dlyrius

Dlyrius — Fri, 04 May 2012 16:19:37 +0000

I personally love the idea of gifting, especially out of my packed to the max wardrobe. I often wonder why Sony can’t develop something like the vacuum storage bags for our wardrobes. I for one would dearly love to be able to pack up all my winter clothes, suck the air out of them and tuck them away neatly in my attic until next winter so I didn’t have to throw clothes all over the floor looking for a pair of shorts LOL

By: Burbie52

Burbie52 — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:19:33 +0000

My friends and I have been laughingly talking about a GoodWill store in Home for a long time. Technically I don’t think it can be done though, it has something to do with the coding I think, and might cause all sorts of server issues, something we don’t need any more of. But having a deeper storage closet, like a second layer, where you could put unwanted items would be nice. That way when you run out of room in your regular wardrobe and things get bumped to storage they would be easier to find, all you would have to do is deep-six the ones you truly don’t use.
I have a lot of friends in Home who have bought so much stuff that when you see them changing clothes you might as well go somewhere else for half an hour because it takes them that long to change. This is where a second, deeper storage would help a great deal.

By: Burbie52

Burbie52 — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:12:14 +0000

Thanks for expanding and bringing attention to the gifting idea Ted. I have written a couple of things suggesting this as well, so I am totally on board with you where that is concerned.
Trading wouldn’t work on Home though and not just for the reasons you have stated. I don’t believe it is even possible to do with the technical side of things, at least that is what I have been told. But the option to choose to buy something for another person or keep it for yourself when you checkout in any store should be able to be easily added to the cart system. That way you choose how much you want to spend on any given person. Ten and twenty dollar PSN cards are too much for most of us to spend except in special circumstances, but the ability to spend a dollar or two isn’t.
I am actually amazed that Sony and the other developers haven’t done this a long time ago, the revenue boost they would get almost immediately would be phenomenal I think.
Great article and I totally agree with your assessment.

By: rockstavixen

rockstavixen — Fri, 04 May 2012 06:06:13 +0000

I LOVE THE IDEA OF GOIN IN ANY STORE AND HAVING THE OPTION OF GIFTING AMAZING IDEA A WIN WIN FOR EVERYBODY INCLUDING PS3 ,,ANOTHER THOUGHT IS WE HAVE TONS OF CLOTHS TSHIRTS THINGS ID LOVE TO GET RID OF -HOW ABOUT A GOOD WILL TYPE OF STORE EVERYTHING PRICED LOW AN CREDITED TO YOUR ACCOUNT BUT NOTHING OVER 1dollar or free for people who cant afford things ,it give us a chance to clean out our closets n makin room for other or even bid on some spaces furnitur games ,,capped at 5dollars for biddin tho ,,theres tons of furnituer ,some spaces, even ,,and of corse clothes ,,it clear our closets 1dollar or 25cents fist come first serve ,,i really think it be a hit and 25cents put in your wallet of course frees the best ,heck id delete some if i could ,,and soon nobody will hav room pshome good fortune ,or ROCSTAVIXENS CLOSET LO”L --THX GREAT IDEAS

By: LostRainbow

LostRainbow — Fri, 04 May 2012 04:51:37 +0000

Good article and I have to agree with everything you said. I think trading on Home would be a bad idea. Before Home, I played a game that allowed trading. There were very “rare” items and god forbid if you wore them in public that people would bombard you and want to be your friend and offer you most of their inventory. It got to be a very greedy thing and owning a rare item became unenjoyable when people would constantly ask me for it and if I said no, decided they didn’t want to be my friend.

I do however love the idea of gifting. I get joy giving my friends things from the gift machine but wish it was extended more to other items. I also love spaces where my friends can find cool rewards like the Dream Yacht (although to this day I still don’t have all my rewards!!)

I think trading on Home and making rare items would turn people more greedy. It’s ok if Home decides to stop making something, but if you bought it when it was out, it’s yours!!! LOL. I wish some of the costs of things were lower because I can’t keep buying PSN cards, so in ways being able to gift anything including spaces to friends, would be a cool idea!!!

Great article!

By: Kid Fleetfoot

Kid Fleetfoot — Fri, 04 May 2012 02:57:13 +0000

Nah, not trading. Where does SONY gain. They lost money and therefore we lose.
I do remember trading stuff with friends when I was a young lad and it was fun except when someone traded something they regretted later and wanted it back. But it was a part of growing up and learning about life.

Gifting? Yeppers. That sounds grand. It works well with the Lockwood gift machine at least I think it does.
Could not gifting work to some extent by buying a $20 PSN card and giving the code the someone? Nah! Too expensive. I must say though I was pleasantly surprised and felt gratification in winning one of those in a contest from this magazine. And people have given card codes away on the Playstation Forum if I’m not mistaken. And some of us put put Dr. Pepper codes on the forum for free Battlefield outfits.

As to being against trading, I do wonder what my Chamber Apartment would be worth. Not that I’d trade it. No way.

Good article.

Bye.