Comments on: A Waning Interest

By: Jin Lovelace

Jin Lovelace — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 01:24:32 +0000

What you’re telling me is to understand that not everyone who has these features that aren’t meant for them to have publicly online, in an open forum and to utilize said features aren’t as malicious as what I make them out to be.

No, I’m sorry but I 100% disagree with you. If you have these features enabled and you perform these acts on Home, regardless of your intention at all, you are breaking the ToS. That is fact.

If they wish to gain access to said features, they can always fill out an Application for SCEA and hope they are hired by them. Then if they wish to abuse the features, then that’s the Company’s problem. The Home users, including myself, shouldn’t have to suffer at te hands of these bozos that’re running rampantly around discovering these said feats and use them to tehir discretion openly just because they can.

No, I don’t and won’t buy that statement.

By: Ozzy

Ozzy — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 22:15:43 +0000

i know you dont like this to happen but exploiding home dosnt harm anyone

there are people missusing the grow ability to freeze
but not everyone is like that

and most people dont over use it or dont use it at all

and to calm you down everything got patched even

the ability to grow

even the hackers them selfs or in other words the exploiders didnt liek the fact eithr that they had found the grow thing

one of the ownsers of these hacking sites even
made a topic with a message to sony to patch some things up since people were abusing it

and well everything got patched and encrypted

so there will be no exploiding anymore for a while

btw you will never know when they afre around some people just show there selfs in public whats dumb and some do it un noticed and hide in the crowed and chat

By: Gary160974

Gary160974 — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:05:49 +0000

Recent updates, they just seem to be taking the easy route and pandering to those that want a new suit every week. Challenges are devalued by the prizes, queues and repetitive nature. There’s nothing groundbreaking. I’m starting to think that these users that use those methods are having more fun they I am on home. Home has a certain amount of attention seeking involved in it and those users are certainly getting talked about more than any genuine user.

By: KrazyFace

KrazyFace — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 08:42:11 +0000

I’ve only been dipping into Home for the Challenges now really. Thing is, the people using ISE don’t really bother me, if you wanna cheat your way around things in life then have at it, I’m not here to judge -- I wouldn’t be part of it myself but I don’t force my views on anyone either. The “hacking” (heh, also known as reading a website and following instructions) don’t really bother me either, except those times it freezes my machine. That’s unacceptable I’m afraid and I will not use software/applications that could damage my hardware -- it’s very simple.

Sony never speak. So I just do the British thing and rather than complain to try and get the standard I want, I simply don’t go to or use the service involved. Again, very simple. If Sony can’t give us feedback on what’s going on then I don’t have any motivation to do so either; so when Home finally dies we can all sit around on our hands and not have a clue as to where it all went wrong. FANTASTIC!

Good read Jin, thanks.

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 03:08:58 +0000

Having 16 accounts isn’t the issue in my opinion. It is the ISE hacks that go on without retribution. The people who are constantly ruining our time on Home. I wrote about all of this just last week. Glad to see others share my concerns.~*Sue

By: Gary160974

Gary160974 — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 20:03:25 +0000

Happy belated birthday. What your saying is so true, so many users I know are using home less, the malicious users, the broken spaces and the lack of new stuff to do is slowly destroying home. But a lot of side effects of some of these malicious users actually make some of homes figures better. higher psn figures, more users and visits to home and it’s spaces, duplicate purchase. So if they sorted all these issues would it cause viability problems for home in regards to user base.

By: Zero Secrets

Zero Secrets — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 10:01:40 +0000

When I spoke to a Sony rep on the phone last week, she assured me Sony is working on the issues but that the first priority is protecting Sony servers. I got the impression the problem is like trying to bail water out of a boat, but there’s still a hole in the boat. Perhaps another massive shut-down would help in the long term, with every single user having to verify their PSN account with a valid name/address/phone number in order to be allowed back on PSN. I can think of a dozen users, mostly hackers, some with as many as 16 accounts EACH (that I know of), who would be weeded out. Whatever happens, I miss the way Home used to be and I don’t think it will ever be the same way again. The world is virtual but the hurt in my heart is real.

By: HONEYCOMBFROG

HONEYCOMBFROG — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 08:01:43 +0000

Good point Jin. Sometimes, “pushing boundaries” is human nature. But I have seen more things like this on Home myself. I have a few ideas/suggestions for Sony myself; maybe I’ll consider submitting an article.
Who knows, possibly Sony is reading things such as these. Great article, and a nice friend.