Comments on: A Subscription-Based Home

By: dblrainbowgirl

dblrainbowgirl — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 21:12:00 +0000

Good point! Especially if licensing can be pre-agreed upon in a region free manner…no more waiting for content to hit certain regions! Perhaps they will take it further and allow for the solicitation of more user-driven content.

By: yahslover

yahslover — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 18:03:56 +0000

Good article that gets you to thinking,But might I say that if it were a paid subscription when I found home,I would not have even considered it.Since I have been on Home for three months I have spent atleast 80 dollars if not more(not that its much in the bigger picture)…this is money the devs. would have lost out on.
It has been my experience that paying for service does Not mean better clientele.I will just point you to Cod Elite for proof of that.Sometimes when people pay they feel like they deserve more,and will voice their opinion as such.You will find good and bad people both online and your everyday life.
If you happen to find a hate free community,let me know,my bags are packed.

By: FEMAELSTROM

FEMAELSTROM — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 14:52:40 +0000

I see a lot of the ‘whales’ paying , I know I would. To me it would be just another virtual purchase. Instead of say a set of clothes or estates, membership. Say the price was $40 a year, and that’s just a ‘suppose’, I would pay it as that what I spend in no time flat. I would love a ‘thinned ranks’ home and the lack of the lesser behaved. At least at that point, if the devs know how many people they are catering to, they can better cater to those people. I lived in an area and there was a public park that gathered lesser behaved people, then when the county opened up the ‘for pay’ park a few miles away, that was my park of choice. Less undesirables. Yeah I would pay, and I am hoping that Home goes on till the PS infinity…I know too obvious.

By: Jin Lovelace

Jin Lovelace — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 14:35:25 +0000

Home is Free-to-Play, so if by theory Home makes it to the Ps4, F2P games will stay free.

My personal opinion? I just don’t see myself paying for this service. Granted, I’m down for better maintenance and added features in the server but even then I just don’t really see myself paying for Home.

By: SealWyf_

SealWyf_ — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 12:08:25 +0000

I’m a huge fan of “The Guild”. The relationships among the highly disfunctional players are priceless. I can totally see them in Home.

By: Kid Fleetfoot

Kid Fleetfoot — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 18:21:54 +0000

Unless I'm mistake, SONY has said Home would always be free. If it's not and SONY changes their mind they lose credibility. Sometimes companies rise and fall base on people's perception of them. On the PS4 PLUS will be necessary for some online services and not necessary for others like Netflix. If makes it the PS4, will it be free access like Netflix and other apps or will PLUS be needed? Time will tell. SONY can change their mind about anything.

By: ted2112

ted2112 — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 17:16:51 +0000

I got to agree with you Terra,

I feel there is a very good chance Home will be on the PS4, and if it is, it will be via the PS4 streaming service. I feel if it happens it will be a year or two into the PS4 launch.

Here’s an interesting thought. The PS4 will not be reign locked, and this has some huge ramifications for Home on the PS4. So, potentially Home will truly be one worldwide community. This would be a very cool thing indeed!

By: MsLiZa

MsLiZa — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 14:46:33 +0000

If the subscription allowed users to continue accessing their PS3-Home content, then I would consider it. On the other hand, I don’t know if I would start paying a fee to start from scratch. It would help if developers would be willing to offer more free content. At least, users would feel like they’re getting more from their subscription than simple access.

Ultimately, it would depend on what the new and improved Home has to offer to justify the expense. Many people would not be willing to pay for Home as it is right now.

By: Jeff_Psn

Jeff_Psn — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 14:08:48 +0000

I would pay a subscription fee to access Home,for sure.A part of me is even a tiny bit surprised this hasn’t happened yet.I believe this kind of service is going to happen one way or another but who does it right first-Sony or Microsoft,or maybe an unseen contender-remains to be seen.From a business standpoint (not my forte to be sure)it would seem to make sense to offer a service where people can consume and spend dollars from the comfort of our living rooms and make it really easy and fun.Home does this perfectly why not continue to do so on the PS4 with the added bells and whistles that the PS4 tech can offer.Second life just doesn’t cut it for me.I hope Sony does it right.Time will tell and I remain hopeful that a virtual gaming social playground steeped in fantasy will be available to inhabit…somewhere in cyberspace.

By: odd girl

odd girl — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 14:05:09 +0000

I strongly believe that Home will survive and land on PS 4. I know a large base of people (me included) that purchased a ps3 just because of Home. I can almost guarantee that Home will be a subscription service and hurray for that! As a consequence, I will have to give up my Japan account and 1 of my 2 NA accounts but that’s ok. My friends will transfer over. As far as the dooms day stuff goes I hear about Home, hey guess what? The 2012 dooms day scare has come and gone and we are still here despite the certainty of the so called “Experts”. So rasberries to the Mayans! Home isn’t doomed either so rasberries again to all the PS Home Dooms Day Prophets,lol. I find alot of the negative predictions come from hard core gamers who have a grudge with Home. I don’t know why they do. If you don’t like it then don’t click on the icon…simple

By: KrazyFace

KrazyFace — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 13:48:39 +0000

I’d be in my element if I could build, open then run my own tavern in an online Elder Scrolls world! The great thing about that kind of world is that you can go out in teams and build your characters together while gathering cool stuff.

By: SealWyf_

SealWyf_ — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 12:44:51 +0000

I see Home as a prototype for a product that has not yet been defined. There is a substantial population of gamers looking for a social MMO experience, just as there are gamers who prefer loosely-structured “sandbox games” over standard shooters, fighters and racing competitions. From my own observations, I suspect that the social/sandbox populations overlap to a large degree. The problem with social MMO’s has been the economic model — how to get enough people to spend enough money in Home to make it work.

I wonder if the gaming MMO genre (World of Warcraft, DCUO, and similar creations) could be married to the Home concept to provide a more social experience, with more of an emphasis on casual gaming and interaction. I’m intrigued by the promise of an Elder Scrolls MMO on the PS4 platform. The Elder Scrolls titles are wildly popular with my Home friends. (I know one Homeling who remarks that he “took an arrow to the knee” on every possible occasion.) If the Elder Scrolls MMO is a place where you can not only embark on grand quests, but also putter around with alchemy, explore the woods, and hang out with your friends in taverns, might it not become an emotional successor to Home? I already know a number of Home users who are using DCUO as a social platform. And it appears to this outside observer that the Dust 514/EVE Online community is used in similar ways. If I were not already so involved in Home, I might be checking out these alternative online universes.

By: Jersquall

Jersquall — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 08:43:34 +0000

Home on PS4 subscription-based would work if game companies dropped a level of their games onto the platform. You get a PlayStation plus discount of course

Game developers create spaces, game related content and personal spaces to go with their games. Kicker would be a game level built just for Home of advertised game. not our avatars playing by the way. I don’t think that worked previously.. real game.
Build a Home world that is built around the PS4 design with all the bells and whistles that PS4 offers. In game cross chat, Netflix, Video sharing and a Home web page ”Facebook” style. Make it worth a subscription.

Terra, love the article.

By: KrazyFace

KrazyFace — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 07:34:19 +0000

Multiple accounts would probably cease by a huge percentage, if a subscription were introduced. But what if the entire Gaikai service was charged for? So, you’re paying to access (they’d say) “every PlayStation game ever made”, and Home was lumped into the sub. It may not seem like such a biggie if you were getting it as a kinda sub, sub service. Also seems to fit nicely into Home’s pattern of obscurity if done like that.

Personally, I’d probably pay something like $2 or $3 a month to keep my NA Home account running but I’d have to let my native account slip -- it’s just not worth that to me. That’s a content call, not a reflection on the fun and people I’ve met there.

By: Gary160974

Gary160974 — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 04:55:44 +0000

Subscription would take out multiple accounts but also multiply revenue streams as there are a lot of users with full blown accounts on different regions that won’t pay subscriptions on all of them. The only reason Asia home stays running is on revenue from non native accounts, if you have ever been there you know what I mean. By creating subscribers this could actually lose more money. And as much as Sony or developers wouldn’t want to admit it having multiple accounts helps them with better figures by just increasing the amount of unique users to they spaces.