Comments on: Offline Home

By: KrazyFace

KrazyFace — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:11:07 +0000

That’s the problem though Gary, these world’s you’re mentioning aren’t as big as Home, or come close to its customizing options. Sure you can make a good avatar in SR, or have fun “horsie riding” in RDR, but the combination of these things isn’t there; to experience each idea you’d have to quit the game and re-load another one with a different avatar. Breaks up the fluidity of the whole experience. Not only that most things in Home share a common aesthetic, when you look around in all Home spaces you KNOW where you are just by the look of it, this would be lost by game hopping. The closest game that’s even similar to Home so far (IMO) is TDU2, and the property, furniture and clothing items (in comparison to Home) are limited. Oh, and their PS3 servers are RUBBISH! I *think* they’re powered by hamsters on wheels…

By: Kid Fleetfoot

Kid Fleetfoot — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 05:39:43 +0000

It could be done but why offline? (I’m asking.) I’m going to suggest that someone will eventually set up a Facebook type setup only with avatars who meet in a public or perhaps even a private space by invitation. Expect to see lots of ads cus it’d still be for free.

Maybe this has been done with avatars by invitation only ala Facebook with public and private apartments. If it’s been done, hey! I’m only on passenger on this flight. I don’t know diddley squat.

By: fredjr01

fredjr01 — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 01:30:14 +0000

Also an offline version so while they update we can still go to our apt.s & items and all but make it where when update is done we can still have our apt. The way we did it while they were updating…..

By: fredjr01

fredjr01 — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 01:25:40 +0000

Cool idea but my thing is this home makes sony millions od dollars a year and would be crazy to just give up that kind of cash! And as for some people wanting it gone well why are they worried about it if they dont use it delete it….. Sony should just make it an optional download for ps4 & ps3 cause I like my ps3 and have spent more
than enuff money in home and think it would be messed up for sony to screw me out of my money or items bought so I think they should just make it a free app. And those who dont like it well dont download it that simple!!!! Thanks for listening

By: Burbie52

Burbie52 — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:15:22 +0000

This is a very interesting idea Bonzo. I think I would pay the 50$ if this was possible. I would probably do that once a year like the Plus subscription if it was possible even. It is a very cool idea, I like it. I wouldn’t even care if I couldn’t decorate the public areas, the idea of having all of Home to share with friends is cool enough.

By: gary160974

gary160974 — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 12:45:37 +0000

Thing is if you want to meet multiplayer just buy a multiplayer game, Saints row allows two people to play through complete game, plus have user created avatars. Red dead redemption allows private games or multiplayer games with mini games with in game. uncharted 3 has private games. Midnight club has a social scene where people show off they latest creations. Really no need for home to be a multiplayer game. With a bit of imagination and friends with a similar game taste’ you can extend your home experience, get into home wanna ride a horse game launch into RDR, wanna drive Midnight club, wanna chill hanging around a penthouse Saints row. There is a bigger ps3 world out there than home. But I get what you mean by what if home is no longer supported. But I suppose if you broke it down home isn’t that good that it would replace a games collection, and if as users we didn’t want a game collection why would you buy a PlayStation.

By: Dr_Do-Little

Dr_Do-Little — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 10:08:13 +0000

London, 4h00 am… A programmer can’t sleep. Algorithm swirl in his head… “There must be a way, there MUST be a way!”

Great read Bonzo, neat idea. I was thinking of the huge amount of data required myself but we can dream. Maybe the PS4 could handle some sort of offline Home. So we would’nt losse all the trinkets we paid for.

By: BONZO

BONZO — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 06:11:14 +0000

That is a very good point. I have my cache set at 12gigs but that does slow down my load times.

By: Gary160974

Gary160974 — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 05:51:43 +0000

great idea, but home downloads a lot of stuff as required, which without doing the math sounds like you would need a massive amount of data on a disk, because you would need every item home has got or ever had just in case your friend you invited had an item you never bought. same as accessing off line I dont want all that data saved to my hard drive

By: Bobsfed

Bobsfed — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 05:34:48 +0000

This is a great idea Bonzo! I’ve wondered that myself. Like what is going to happen to Home when the ps4 comes out and Home is no longer profitable to Sony. Are we also not going to be able to access all the items and personal space’s we bought over the years? I think they should at least make it so you can access you Home account and personal space’s offline. That way if Home or the server is under maintenance we could still work on decorating our personal space’s during this down time. And Red Dead Redemption is an awesome game too!