Comments on: A Home With Nothing New

By: FEMAELSTROM

FEMAELSTROM — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 18:05:21 +0000

My view is simply this, I am invested in Home N/A, and will have fun till the servers close and there is no more Home, be it tonight or 1000 years from now. The fact is that we can impact the business model here if we continue to buy, and I will. Practically, when Sony decides to pull the plug, they will, I will buy and ride until that day. I have a couple accounts here in N/A, and the second one is much smaller than my Fema account, I just am too focused on Fema, to invest in any other account, and so the passing of Japan and Asia new content is a blip on the radar for me as my focus is on Fema. And if there was no new content, I would still take time to have fun with what I have gathered here in the time I have been on. The stuff I have will take me far into a future without new content, so even then, I’m still gonna be here for a long time.Good article Jin.

By: Burbie52

Burbie52 — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 12:10:33 +0000

JP and Asia are still going to be around for quite awhile. I for one never bought a thing there and still had fun when I went. I haven’t been there or any other region for months now and to tell you the truth I don’t miss it all that much. Our Home has so much going on compared to theirs that I quite simply haven’t the time to invest elsewhere.
FOr those who did go and spend there I know there will be some sadness. But Even though they won’t have new things to invest in they still have all the stuff they never bought yet and the things they did. Besides, Home is its people not its things. those are just to enhance the fun we have with our friends, not take their places in our hearts.

By: Gary160974

Gary160974 — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 09:40:32 +0000

Outside of the ps3 experience IMVU has quite a simple interface, allows music from you tube to be played and even has a smart phone chat app. Second life is quite complex to get used to, and very easy to take a wrong turn. I was walking round ancient Rome on second life when I realised it was set up as gay role play space. I’ve also learnt that there are vampires in second life that have the powers that vampires have in the stories so don’t get bitten otherwise well you know what happens.
But I don’t think it’s the end yet. I still think users buying and usage patterns will change with the news from Japan and Asia

By: RiBZe

RiBZe — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 09:34:21 +0000

I didn’t steel your thoughts in your sleep, honest

By: Jin Lovelace

Jin Lovelace — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 23:58:05 +0000

Right on, Nora! I sincerely thank you for your response.

By: Jin Lovelace

Jin Lovelace — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 23:57:11 +0000

This, I agree fully and you’ve took the words right out of my head. That is the thing that I want everyone to understand: Home isn’t stopping production until it’s announced.

By: Nora Rich

Nora Rich — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 20:46:53 +0000

I to think that as long as people pay for content on home, that home will stay open. I don’t see Sony shutting it down for some time as long as they are getting a significant amount of money for it.I don’t even see Japan/ Asia closing their servers down for a while either, as there are still a number of things you can still get there, for a long time.
When Home truly sees their ” final” days, there will be places one can go to. Lockwood is working on Avakin, which is looking pretty cool and will only get better in the future. My home husband wants our family to continue there, and maybe even on ” Second life”. I may even start playing Sims again, I have some of the games, I might just start getting more. Home is still having a good ride and I plan to stay on until the last server is shut down.

By: RiBZe

RiBZe — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 08:36:41 +0000

Great article, personally i feel the SCEA and SCEE communities need to chill out a bit. SCEA and SCEE as you stated above (quoting the official press release) are still going on and there has been no discussion or announcements for stopping new content being published for those regions.

So even if SCEA/SCEE did follow suit, I am sure like the SCEJ/SCEAsia press release we would hear a good 6 months to a year before it happened anyway at the very least.

However what probably will close PS Home down sooner, like any business will be that the community stop playing/spending money and enjoying Home, if this happens due to scare mongering community members and players ‘jumping ship’ then I would imagine it would close sooner rather then later.

By: Gary160974

Gary160974 — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 05:56:31 +0000

The problem with no new items means that a lot of the support of home in them regions has shifted. Even though they have said special events will still take place. Giving a clear indication that at some point these regions will not be continued. For developers like Granzella that’s a lot of income I believe the figures they released was 35% of they turnover is from Japan where the EU is only 15%, that’s a big shortfall it also says that the EU doesn’t really do this everything from Japan is better rubbish. But does that mean that granzella have to change to make up the short fall and make more products that will sell in the EU. I’m from the EU region and I’m a great believer in the whole ps3 experience with me and my friends shifting regions and games. Anyone thinks that id have a ps3 just for home really should relook at what they are doing. Example Home users that waited until Lockwood released the prairies to go horse riding missed out so much earlier by not setting a private RDR game. And you could now buy RDR for less than a price of a Lockwood horse if you look on auction web sites. Ultimately any changes to one region at some point in some way will effect other regions. 2 regions falling on they swords over new content doesn’t mean a thing until the other two regions actually tell us what they intend to do which the only info we have is developers are developing for home past next march