Comments on: If It Aint Broke — Wait, It Is

By: Gary160974

Gary160974 — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 00:20:43 +0000

Couldn’t agree more, but more than weaken faith in Sony its weakens homes position making it less viable in the future. Home is only as good as its worse part as that is what home is judged by, in a world where first impressions count

By: FEMAELSTROM

FEMAELSTROM — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 22:06:09 +0000

One of the chief issues I have with this all is that people spend real money here. If the game had dispensed the free coins and that had glitched, oh well, it simply is a disservice to Sony, but people have spent real money here, and the game is still open and on the market for people to go play and try, and there is no stopping if people go to buy the add-ons, (if they even can). I think that Sony and everyone (minus the consumers) have a real obligation to remedy the issue. At least with games like Granzella they tell the user it is a limited time game that requires a special suit…you are aware it is a limited time, so you can buy the costumes with that in mind, at CT, we were never told that it was limited time as it was not, so people bought, and people lost real investments and that can only serve to weaken faith in Sony, plus it is just the right thing to do.

By: Gary160974

Gary160974 — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 21:20:25 +0000

Free to play has more of responsibility for the brand to be right first time as people will keep a full priced game and wait for it to be repaired, even forgetting the fact the game before in the series had major issues they will still buy the next one. Free to play game users try it once and if it has an issue they dont come back for a long time if ever again.

By: Dr_Do-Little

Dr_Do-Little — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 21:06:32 +0000

I wasn’t a big CT player but I did enjoy early week-end mornig battles. Bought both a coat and a hat. And then… “it” happens.

The worst was not be left in the dark.
The worst was being told “everything works fine on our end”.

After months of complaining and , in lack of a better word, lies. Few weeks ago we we’re told some serious work will be done but a fix should not be expected before probably .. 3 MONTHS!

There’s still one question we never got an answer to.
How come a perfectly working game sudenly stop working and need so much works?
Should I add other Sony games “brokes” at the same time. RC rally among them. Games wich we’re still listed in featured games for months.
… No wonders there’s a bunch of whinners out there.

I try to stay positive and look at the bright side of things. But Cuthroats is one of the many things wich push me to restrain my spending on Home.

By: John C. Ardussi

John C. Ardussi — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:06:37 +0000

I have an idea why Cutthroats is broken. But it really does not matter what is wrong with it if there is no will to fix it. If I am right, it would not be a trivial fix for me or anyone else. The reality is that the business model failed enough that they are not willing to put back resources to regain the revenue stream. That is the real issue. It remains a warning sign for anyone wanting to create a free-to-play game on a free-to-play platform.

While I liked some of the enhancements, others went counter to the original game design. It became exactly the pay-to-win game I wanted to avoid.

And they never did release the Kraken.

By: Gary160974

Gary160974 — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 06:55:16 +0000

I was reading an article about home the other day, but it wasnt the article that caught my eye it was the comments from PS3 users that was with it. There were about 80 comments and the general theme of those comments were tried it once and it was broken, slow, or crashed. So most of these 80 PSN users will never use home again and couldnt care whether stays or goes. There were a few comments trying to defend home but they couldnt because what was being said in the rest of the comments was fact either in the past or even worse it still is fact today. Just said it in another post, games that dont fully work should be removed and any money spent on them refunded. Because ultimately poor quality like this will cause users to try and not come back.

By: Burbie52

Burbie52 — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 05:35:12 +0000

Cutthroats has never worked for me/ Ever since the beginning of the game every time I play and leave the space and return it sets me back to level 1. It always as done this so I never went back, now it seems to have spread to everyone. There are other games in Home that are broken as well. I can’t see the broom game in Pottermore at all, it won’t even show up as a target I can click on.
Charms is a part of the new challenges in Home but when I did the three levels the challenge required I didn’t get any credit for it at all.
It is things like this that can put people off of a game even the new challenge system is flawed.
Great read Strom, they really should do something about this. I went to the forums support area and told them about the Cutthroats issue months ago but it was never fixed for me.