Comments on: Is 2012 Home’s Best Year…Ever?

By: Gary160974

Gary160974 — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 06:31:48 +0000

Content wise its been the best, community wise and stability wise its getting worse. theres so much mis trust in the community, to some people it seems a quest for micro celebrity or there are people creating they own personal soap opera, others just want to cause trouble, so far this year ive heard many stories several ive not got long to lives, im suicidal if you delete me i dont know what ill do, these stories mostly are caused by the desperation of one person not wanting to be deleted by another, trouble makers have just made some spaces no go areas, its actually getting quite annoying to the point im spending more time in personal spaces. and we all know stability wise Home is creaking a bit. there is a point that its not just Home but the speed of the users internet comes into it as well so there will be a point where Home has to stop, theres no point in having a super powerful Home if it means most of us cant use it due to connection speeds. Content wise we have a choice buy it or not, community and stability wise we have no control and those that do, have accounts to balance

By: KrazyFace

KrazyFace — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 07:37:01 +0000

LOL! THEMS FIGHTIN’ WURDZ!

By: Dr_Do-Little

Dr_Do-Little — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 20:03:59 +0000

Let’s wish 2013 will be the year of stability ;/
Seriously I think Home is ready for maturity (no pun intended). I go with Burbie saying the community might benefit from a more paced new contents release. We have a good game base. More than enough clothing. The furniture department is covered with the recent kitchen items released. ( I know I know, some still request bathroom cabinet lol).
Now just some core update, L1 & R1 functions, button maping, more furniture allocation and… stability.
I say wr crusin men!

By: Jayson619

Jayson619 — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:07:36 +0000

Asia has been lately getting less content. Past three weeks we got nothing! And noticeably content gets frozen for Asia whenever an Asia won Street Fighter IV at EVO! I noticed!

2009 -- Daigo (Japan)
2010 -- Daigo (Japan)
2011 -- Fuudo (Japan)
2012 -- Infiltration (S. Korea)

On paper, USA can’t beat Asians in Street Fighter.

By: Burbie52

Burbie52 — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:58:56 +0000

If I have a say in this I would opt for more depth in the ones we have already than new content every week. A new one here and there would be enough, the way it is now I can barely keep track of what is new out each week, and I am not only talking games. I would actually welcome a slow down at this point to give us time to absorb what is already here for awhile, and learn to appreciate it fully.
The more immersive and fresh they keep Cutthroats, Tycoon, Mercia and No Mans Land the more people they will retain in Home playing these things over and over. New content is fine, but they do need to stay on top of what they already have.
Blueprint and Avalon are no exception to this.

By: keara22hi

keara22hi — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:47:51 +0000

July, 1969. No sounds filtered in through the window. The streets were bare. Inside flicketing images on a screen: “Eagle has landed”…”One small step for man”… and we were jubilant. Next would be Mars, the moons of Jupiter, the rest of the universe. It had been a mad scramble since Pres. Kennedy had sworn that the U.S. would land on the Moon within a decade. And then, slowly and slowly, people came to realize that the wild ride was over. Instead of bigger, better, wilder, we would regress to “maybe someday”. In the same way, I have seen video games come full circle.30+ years ago I was playing games on Atari that looked very much like what I see on the hand-held games today. The days when a game like Skyrim would have completely dominated are gone. There’s just too much else to DO. Putting 300 hours into one game is anathema to the digital-age gamers. Unless there are thousands of trophies in that game to collect. Thus, I am beginning to wonder if Sony will actually bring out a PS4. Is the era of the ‘big AAA game’ coming to an end? Just as reading a newspaper from cover to cover was replaced by television and the half-hour news show -- and then that was replaced by sound bytes and now by internet headline/pics/caption journalism, so will entertainment become shorter, faster, and shallower. It’s the way of the world. Just ask T.S. Eliot: “This is how the world ends; not with a bang but a whimper.”

By: KrazyFace

KrazyFace — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:46:45 +0000

For a lot of people Home has always been about the content. Others have been using it for years and hardly put in a penny, for them it’s the friendships and personal interactions that matter. These are both fine, and for me it’s about 50/50; well bit of a lie there, I’d say it’s my friends in Home that really make it but I do like to see what new ideas are out there.

I think Mercia and Tycoon will change the way some use Home forevermore, just like Novus did. It’s rather plain to me, that Home sucsess is in the perpetual rather than the quick money shot games. I know the Midway and Casino are top of the money makers but this might just see a change if Mercia and Tycoon are deep enough to hold onto people for long enough. And in those two worlds is your regular users looking for content updates rather than new IPs.