Comments on: PlayStation Home Is Uncool — and That’s Okay http://www.hsmagazine.net/2013/06/playstation-home-is-uncool-and-thats-okay/ The PlayStation Home Magazine Fri, 13 Feb 2015 21:20:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.2 By: Terra_Cide http://www.hsmagazine.net/2013/06/playstation-home-is-uncool-and-thats-okay/#comment-293351 Tue, 17 Jun 2014 04:39:36 +0000 http://www.hsmagazine.net/?p=52460#comment-293351 After a two-year absence, that’s all you have to say and specifically point out? I’m disappointed.

In the world of business -- especially one as tumultuous as gaming -- there is no room for, “Well, if they’d just do it my way” or “I told you so!” thinking. Besides, these debates -- where Home is concerned -- have been done to death, and the outcomes are always the same.

In the beginning, what social-centric enhancements Home had were considered “boring”, “there was nothing to do” and users wanted more game content. The idea of playing a game that had no objectives, no rules, was (and still is) a foreign concept to many gamers.

Remember: it wasn’t until the game-based elements were introduced to the nascent Home community that it began to coalesce. Xi, Sodium One, to name a few.

When more game content came, people lamented that it wasn’t good enough. They compared it to $60 disc games (which is in and of itself a dubious place to base one’s argument), and expected the developers of such content to give away the house, since that was what they were conditioned to expect from Sony’s (at that time) track history with Home.

Now the back end of Home has caught up to the consumer demand of deeper social elements. And these things cost money -- real money -- to create and create well. So now users balk because social experience items cost in the $3-$5 (or more) range, not the $.99-$1.49 they’ve grown accustomed to.

The pattern ought to be clear by now. Would things be different had the plan for Home from day one been to make Home itself a game (where the scope of your access relied upon the accomplishments of the user), as opposed to making it a platform for games? It’s hard to say, but if human behavior is any indicator (in that even if you give a person everything they could possibly desire, they still wouldn’t be satisfied), I’d say yes.

That said, if all these old arguments are all people stick to doing, it would be no different than arguing with family over the inheritance instead of spending what remaining time left with the person dying. And that’s a damn waste.

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By: Aeternitas33 http://www.hsmagazine.net/2013/06/playstation-home-is-uncool-and-thats-okay/#comment-293349 Tue, 17 Jun 2014 01:54:05 +0000 http://www.hsmagazine.net/?p=52460#comment-293349 “Home has spent all of its time trying to appeal to people who didn’t like it that it more or less abandoned trying to pull more money out of those who do like it…”

After a two-year absence, it’s really interesting to find articles by both you and Terra where you now state as gospel what at one time those of us on the outside were shouting until we made ourselves hoarse: that it was the height of arrogance and stupidity for SCEA to ignore and insult its established userbase to chase after new customers. I mean really, how hard is it to understand that “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush?”

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By: Gary160974 http://www.hsmagazine.net/2013/06/playstation-home-is-uncool-and-thats-okay/#comment-285734 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 07:19:52 +0000 http://www.hsmagazine.net/?p=52460#comment-285734 With its network errors, maintenance issues, long load times, constant bugs and mediocre tedious task based games. It takes the best of every social networking site out there and combines it. All these uncool issues are found in every social site out there, but all of them are in home making it the uncool of the uncool generation.

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By: Kid Fleetfoot http://www.hsmagazine.net/2013/06/playstation-home-is-uncool-and-thats-okay/#comment-285707 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 23:07:10 +0000 http://www.hsmagazine.net/?p=52460#comment-285707 Everything is uncool to someone. Don’t sweat it. Pffft! Eh?

As I child I build houses from up to 3 card decks and come crashing down they did. I rebuilt them, sometimes bigger. Family members were amused and entertained as was I. With no TV sometimes it was their entertainment and my fun for the evening or a rainy day.
Home is like a house of cards and sometimes it comes crashing down. As a child I eventually gave up on my house of cards and went on to something else, not that I remember what. Maybe a checker game.
If Home‘s house of cards falls and is gone for ever then I’ll go on to something else.
I still remember the fun of my house of cards with pleasure. And so too will it be with Home… if indeed it does fall like my house of cards. I will remember the fun.

Hello. :)

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By: FEMAELSTROM http://www.hsmagazine.net/2013/06/playstation-home-is-uncool-and-thats-okay/#comment-285705 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 20:56:17 +0000 http://www.hsmagazine.net/?p=52460#comment-285705 I came to Home by accident, more or less, and never turned back. I forget that the PS3 even plays amazing games. I have spent wad upon wad of money and with zero regrets. I love Home and all that I have experienced here. I have made great friends and will soon be flying to meet a woman I met here as we have formed a relationship here on this fine frontier.I have been so many things here. A martian miner, a robot, an orc, a vampire (and bat), and a woman. I have dug for fossils, collected orbs, and actually had luck in a casino. Home is limitless and I choose to embrace it for what and all it is. I will do like Burbie and Jellia, and I will enjoy it whether it ends when ps3 is gone or if it carries over to the PS4 (Sony…PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE). I will enjoy it day to day and be happy that I had such a chance to meet the finest people I could of ever of hoped to. Home is here and now and it is fun and even if people think it is uncool, so what big deal, we can’t spend our lives looking over our shoulders at what others think. I like to look forward and see what is. Anyways, someone will always think something is uncool and be critical. I say that since I’m not harming anyone and having fun as well as spending, I’m good and if it’s uncool, then I guess I am uncool but having fun.

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By: jellia http://www.hsmagazine.net/2013/06/playstation-home-is-uncool-and-thats-okay/#comment-285703 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:41:45 +0000 http://www.hsmagazine.net/?p=52460#comment-285703 Great read Norse and spot on, I for one will continue to support HOME. Been in HOME since 2009 and spent plenty with no regrets. Spending has enriched my experiences in HOME. Got to decorate private spaces, wearing cool clothes. I am dancing, swimming, flying ,riding etc. But besides all that most important is that I have made real life friendships. I have a friend coming my way on his journey through America and stopping by to say hello. Can’t put a price on that. So please enjoy HOME as you always have that’s why you came in here in the first place. If HOME stays or goes I will have lost nothing.

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By: Burbie52 http://www.hsmagazine.net/2013/06/playstation-home-is-uncool-and-thats-okay/#comment-285701 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 10:27:11 +0000 http://www.hsmagazine.net/?p=52460#comment-285701 Bravo Norse. You got it right this time. I wish people would stop living in the future and stay in the present. Worrying about what might happen does nothing. Enjoying what is here while it is here is the important thing. None of us is guaranteed tomorrow, you could walk across a street and get hit by a bus, so stop whining and have fun and please don’t stop spending time and money because if you do you will speed the demise of the very thing you love and are so worried about, Home.

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