Comments on: Too Many Features?

By: Danger_Dad

Danger_Dad — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:30:45 +0000

;^) This was a good read, Norse. Thanks. Especially, anything with a Star Trek reference is welcome.

:^/ I recall that a huge portion of what I enjoyed about my earlier days on Home had been finding ways to be more creative with my furniture layouts. Thinking outside the box, if you take my meaning. But patch after patch to Home’s core have taken some of the utility out of my layouts. My designs had been dependent upon features that were later removed.

I agree with your main thesis that less is more. Give a child a videogame, and he has to follow its rules, as the game enforces them. But if you give him a box of crayons, he’s free to draw anything, not imposoig any limits on himself at all.

;^) Heh. If he’s young enough, not only will he not stay in the lines, he may even leave the page altogether, drawing on the walls…. Home needs more of that.

By: Gary160974

Gary160974 — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 08:47:06 +0000

People forget home is a business first and they need to make money. This they dont care attitude comes from too many developers treating users like friends and then when something goes wrong treating the user like a customer. If a developer truly cared they would fix they spaces that have issues. But its not cost effective to, so they don’t. But this also effects the choice when you want to do something on home as you have to either search it because itd been neglected and forgotten. Its broken, it takes too long to load. The changes home has made have been to drive it in a certain direction but away from what makes a social chatroom successful. Every online game out there can be social. I’ve sat on the beach in midnight club in my done up car. I’ve rode across RDR as a posse all with friends. Why would I go on home takes 5 minutes to load, goto space takes 5 minutes to load to pay to play an inferior game which could take several minutes to load. Social chatrooms of this are more successful the simplier they are, home just keeps getting complex.

By: Godzprototype

Godzprototype — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:33:28 +0000

Whatever happens, I am glad to have had all the experiences I have had in Home. Both with all the people I had the pleasure of experience with.
The developers I have come to know and appreciate.
I will be watching those developers in their new endeavors with all of the best.
Glad to call you friend Norse. Great clip there!

By: Burbie52

Burbie52 — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 10:54:34 +0000

I agree largely with your assessment here Norse. As I have become embroiled in my first “true” MMO, FF14, I can see what you are saying about the lack of ingame money and the ability for users to create within a gaming structure. Even when what you create has limits, you still get a lot of satisfaction in doing it and selling it in the market.
Home has all of its meta games, many of which I enjoy, but without any reward for what you create other than those given by users themselves through the gift machine for your efforts and your own self satisfaction, it can get old and Home’s creative abilities are very limited.
Of all of Home’s meta games I think that decorating, fashion and especially glitching apartments are the most creative. You are given a set bunch of tools and you have to be creative to make the final results your own.
I do hope they consider porting Home to the PS4, but if not I will still use it until it ends and I will be happy for all that it gave me while it lasted. I will have FF14 and other games to get involved in as time goes on, but like Scotty in the clip, I will also be happy to move on when I have to. Good read.