I am “not” willing however to pay for “other” upgrades. I “do” agree that we should “not HAVE to pay,” for storage organization, but I am willing to do so if it has to stay the way it currently is.

Every time someone says they’d pay for something and others agree, Sony LISTENS. Why not? If I was giving away apples from my tree and someone came along and offered me a dollar for each of them, I’d be crazy not to take it, wouldn’t I? Right now people are saying they would pay for new hair and pop-up colors like the ones offered to “Plus” users. Have you seen any new hairdo colors lately with a price of $1.49? I have.

QUOTE “and I have been getting error messages that I have never seen before, like M-10? What is that?”

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lol Burbie… I totally agree. What IS that?

As far as the storage issue, this has been heavy on MY mind. It is a huge discomfort for those of us whom are very involved in modeling, cinema and deco clubs. We need organization to participate in Home. I cannot even imagine what 4 years of items scrabbled in your inventory could be like, when I am having issues with only a year and a half of items.

We also really need an additional overflow storage bin. So we can put the things that we NEVER use in the overflow and use the other storage for our non favorites that are seldomly used. If Sony would give us the option of “purchacing” an additional storage…. they would make bank on it!

Please fix our storage!

Just like with any new technology I understand that there are always updates that are required, but no clarification on these matters are not fair for Home’s high paying customers.

This was a great article and thank you for bringing importance to this matter…OUT.

FACT: no announcements have been made about Home. The only thing we, as consumers, can do is just sit back and wait. We can demand, shout over “as consumers, we have the right to know” bull but the fact is everyone has been talking about that since PS4’s announcement. Until they provide concrete information on it, let these Dorm Room Journalists keep yapping and allow the people on the forum give out conspiracy theories. It’s all hogwash, as what Steven said.

MY Opinion: people desire for Home to go away due to their lack of aesthetics for the application. They diminish all credibility of what Home’s purpose is and put no effort to contributing to the community, aside from the obvious excuse of “I only get on for my friends.” If you dislike home so much, stay off of it and play your games. Breath some fresh air, perhaps go to the Library and talk to that very sweet, fine Liberian.

Home has been successful, has immensely accrued figures that’re much higher than IMVU and dang-near topped Second Life by a 3 to 1 margin. Home is THE first virtual social application for any console system and have gained even media attention. Yet, it’s the Forums and the dwellers lain in that Dungeon that spouts how Home is “trash” because of bugs that’re inconvenient but fixable.

Anyone can create business theories and botch how Home has a grim future ahead of themselves. For me, I’m going right back to doing my fashion shoots and continue to allow others make a complete mess of themselves.

As for the not spending thing, sorry Burbie, but I can’t live with that kinda frustration where my “entertainment” is concerned. I’ll just wait till it’s fixed before buying anything again. Besides, what kind of message are you sending Sony by financially supporting a broken system? We should be looking for product assurance, not empathy for a company. This is a business, not a charity.

First, the PS3 itself will certainly continue as a viable platform long after the PS4 is launched. It will probably get even smaller, cheaper, slimmer versions (perhaps built-in to other devices) and I’m sure Home will continue on those platforms for a while longer whatever else happens.

The PSHome platform probably won’t have any major new structural changes, but the content itself will continue to evolve as long as there is an audience interested in playing and buying content.

What happens with PS4 is totally unknown to me. I suspect that traslating assets from PS3-PS4 could be done, but the visual quality wouldn’t be great and you won’t get many developers going back to update their original assets and textures. Its the engine which would be problematic to port across. Home has a number of underlying systems in place like the version of Havok physics which have never been updated because of the impact on backwards compatibility -- moving the engine to X86 rather than Cell also might not be worth the effort I’m afraid to say. It suspect its more likely that if they wanted PSHome on the PS4 they would use Gaikai to stream it.

I think Sony left out a lot about their plans not just for PSHome, but for the PSN more generally and how Playstation as a service might operate.

Personally I believe PSHome has a long life left, but I also hope is that Sony have learnt from this amazing community of both players and developers that it has spawned; and use that experience to inform their plans for the next generation.

Oscar,
Former Home Architect

My reality is I probably won’t be getting a PS4 for my house the first year. I will likely stick with my PS3 for at least another year. So I have almost 2 more years in Home minimum. In that time, I will still be playing games and having fun as long as there is something new to do. I expect a lot of other people will also.