Comments on: Outside Gaming Merchandise In Home – Where Is It?

By: Kid Fleetfoot

Kid Fleetfoot — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 17:27:04 +0000

Were I SONY I would do basically what they’re doing as to promotion until they feel they can remove the BETA stagnantatnon label.

I don’t think this article is about advertising in HOME but in places like HOME TYCOON I’d like to see names on buildings of well known businesses… even banks (GASP!). Hellfire could tell corporations for ($ unspecified by me cus I don’t know) that they would put their name on a building.

Hey! We’ve always got Wrangler clothes and Clearasil for those young at heart looking for love in all the right faces.

Teenager in Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQoz1fxRAEI

By: ted2112

ted2112 — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 21:53:59 +0000

Outstanding article Burbie.

One of the reasons I feel we don’t see more content like this is the general bad financial shape of the industry. Companies are dropping like flies. Look at Lucas Arts,and THQ. These are big companies. So many more are on the brink and farming out content and laying people off like crazy just trying to survive. Unlike when the PS3 launched it’s a really bad time for the industry now. I think that’s why companies aren’t willing to spend money on anything they absolutely don’t have to.

Harry Potter and Doctor Who are huge enough to be able to afford this kind of development and are kind of on the outside of the industry with their butts not on the line if it doesn’t make a huge profit.

Let’s hope more of these mega titles from outside the gaming industry come in and fill the space until this mess turns around.

By: KrazyFace

KrazyFace — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 07:40:38 +0000

I’ve been thinking this for a while myself, actually since Home began. I know we’ve had a fair amount of gaming content if you cobble it all together, but, if you did the same with all the bikinis and various other tat we’re offered you’d see the gaming content is but a fraction in comparison. To me though, it’s quite telling how most big developers often scoff at the idea of even bothering with making Home content. It eludes to how much developers are *actually* used to getting in return for their efforts financially as most of them say Home’s “just not worth it”. So why then, are LKWD, LOOT, nDreams etc happy to make Home their platform for their business? Surely all they do is loose money if this is true?

In my head, the only logical reason for most devs not bothering with Home is a simple case of greed. There’s just not ENOUGH to be made from Home for them. Not that they wouldn’t make anything, but rather, they wouldn’t make fast (and LOTS of) money, in the same way they do from initial game sales, the kind of money and sales they’re used to.

Same reason they’re still moaning about not getting any extras from used game sales and the secondhand market. Whole thing feels like an argument of entitlement to me, which is a whole other ballgame…

Home is a social network that evolved on a gaming platform, as such, some people are misled in what it is -- they call Home itself a game -- and so miss the point of it on some levels. The obviousness of Home is there, it’s just no one has pointed it out. Sony dropped the ball there, they need to rectify that ASAP. Home needs more time in Sony’s spotlight in its ad campaigns, needs more devs to be serious about it, needs a proper connection to the games we play via extras on game discs or PS3 exclusive games to tie it in with the gaming world.

Sadly, Sony still treat Home like a strange, mutated lab accident that never happened and do very little to push Home into the public’s view. I can only hope that one day, that will change.