Comments on: What If Developers Stopped Developing?

By: GlowingMickeyVan

GlowingMickeyVan — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 06:40:16 +0000

If developers stopped right now, I’d safely have another year or two to catch up. OK Case in point.. We (family and myself) just discovered Cutthroats game. We have been playing it religiously for about 2 months now and see no signs of stopping any time soon. now multiply that times “how many games are on home?”. And then there are downloaded games and disc games (haven’t beaten flowers or flOw…, Saints Row, Epic Mickey, probably 50 or more on disc alone) So that could keep me busy for another long period of time.
Honestly, To me Its about friends. So I’d stay till they pulled the plug. We have 3 Playstation 3 consoles and are planning a 4th for our other child. Three of us in our home play at the same time on our own accounts. We’ve spent a great deal of money on Home and consoles. If PS4 comes out tomorrow I don’t see myself buying it for at least 5 more years. I’m perfectly satisfied with PS3 and all its shortcomings. I have spaces to redecorate, unplayed mini-games, and enough avatars to waste away a lifetime.
But the main reason I stay on home so much is friends. I have friends on home that I know better than my own relatives and neighbors in real life. I talk to my Home friends daily, and I’d never dream of disassociating.
The games are fun, but I still put my emphasis on just chatting with friends and people I meet.
I have to disagree with hearitwow. Personally I don’t need another update in a month or two with another onslaught of games and avatars. I will welcome the update, as its more to see and experience, but it’s also distracting me from my simple “dance and conversation” experiences that are still the primary reason I’m here. So in short I can live with it, and equally well without.
Sony has a reputation of always advancing, but never fixing whats broken already. So my biggest fear would be, that hackers would inevitably shut it down for us, if Sony moved on to another “newer” version of Home. And if the money wasn’t pouring in the old Home I seriously doubt they would care to fix it. I mean not to badmouth Sony but it’s simple economics.

By: Kid Fleetfoot

Kid Fleetfoot — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 05:19:20 +0000

If everything falls apart and there’s no social action we can always go to the Rapture apartment and listen to that radio music and put in one of the solitaire card games and play that.

By: Jayson619

Jayson619 — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 03:59:08 +0000

It’s a SLOW start for Asia PlayStation Home at the moment; we only got a new outfit set and companion from Granzella and that’s it.

Hopefully it picks up in the following weeks. We’re lacking the Granzella Beach, updates by peakvox and several other stuff from VeeMee and I am still praying for Konami to sell their stuff in my region, but they are just too damn f-ing selfish.

By: HearItWow

HearItWow — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:45:34 +0000

I doubt that more than about 15% of the userbase would disappear if Home stopped updating completely, and those who’d be lost would be freebie hunters and whales who live to buy everything every week. Financially, it would be a disaster for Sony, as the cash would stop flowing very quickly, but I think the vast majority of users would be fine.

There are enough open-ended and time-intensive gaming experiences in Home right now for the platform to survive at least two months without an update. Very few users have likely done everything in Home, so it might encourage those who want a “new” experience to try HGL,FUBAR, No Man’s Land or Mercia. There would still be hours of Crackle content and limitless conversation to enjoy (most Home users, I’ve noticed, don’t spend a ton of time talking about content).

By: ted2112

ted2112 — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:59:33 +0000

Nice article Burbie,
I really feel Home is first and foremost a social platform, regardless of how hard they try and turn it into a gaming center. With that said Home could stop all new things today, and life would go on as normal. Don’t get me wrong I don’t want to see that happen, but I feel the heart and soul of Home is us.

By: Godzprototype

Godzprototype — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:19:17 +0000

Very good article Burbs!
I think if all the developers moved on to the next platform, and provided Home were still being supported.
I would still be coming in this iteration of Home. I have had a real blast using Home. Being social with the gaming friends I have in Home.
I would like to see something I think would push Home into the next generation. But I think I will just write an article based on it.

By: FEMAELSTROM

FEMAELSTROM — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:52:08 +0000

Great article Burbie, my view is this, Home has become what it is. We are less a gaming launch platform and really more a social environment, that being said, if devs stopped producing content I think that the amount of people we see would fall a bit and others would get a little bored, but the hardcores and those with active social lives would stay simply because Home is so much more to those than a simple palace of commerce. This is a place where we meet with those that we have come to know and love. I know for me, I would not mind being here with my friends arranging ‘old’ stuff because my friends are what make this the gold it is to me.

By: KrazyFace

KrazyFace — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 08:33:47 +0000

I agree with you Burbie, I probably will be sad to see Home’s content slow then stop but at the same time I cant say I’d be too bothered by it. There’s plenty out there that I still wouldn’t mind having, and still time to enjoy it. I think I’ll probably stick around Home until it’s switched off -- unless there’s a new Home with content closer related to gaming.

The situation may well be that *if* we get a new Home, they do this one right. By “right” I mean have content based on gaming, and this time manage to convince more game devs to come on-board this time. Redbull and Starwars is all fine n’ dandy but I was always most happy with Home when I saw actual game content like the Motorstorm space or inFamous space.

As a social network it’s fine to have these other things, but the real trick of Home has been hampered by the current tech. Streamlined game launching, dedicated game launch rooms, that damn trophy room we never got -- and the rest. On a gaming platform, this is what the new Home should try to embrace. If we get a new Home.