Comments on: Fear of Loss http://www.hsmagazine.net/2014/04/fear-of-loss/ The PlayStation Home Magazine Fri, 13 Feb 2015 21:20:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.2 By: Gary160974 http://www.hsmagazine.net/2014/04/fear-of-loss/#comment-288242 Sat, 12 Apr 2014 09:58:54 +0000 http://www.hsmagazine.net/?p=60927#comment-288242 It’s the sheer amount of stuff you can own on home. Most games won’t let you own so much. GTA is limited to a bunch of reskinned clothes, two apartments and 20 cars ( in high life update coming soon ). Once you own the stuff you want theres little need to start buying more. Theres a couple of phases on games first is to buy everything you need to progress. Second buy high end items that have a kudos factor, third buy or find stuff thats rare or limited, fourth buy stuff you like and not because it’s rare, the best or has any real kudos factor to it.

Home on the other hand just lets you buy and buy and buy. The price of this level of choice is the issues home suffers with. But you can repeat several of the phases. A new game is released in home there’s always associated items that tend to be required to fully enjoy that game. Kudos factor is having new outfits that aren’t just reskins plus High end items are continuous because you can have them all. Rare or limited well acorn pack covers that expertly how many users have bought souvenirs from every park theme. Home could outlast GTA 5 because of this but again it does need several functions to continue. One is we need to be able to get rid of unused items.

]]> By: KrazyFace http://www.hsmagazine.net/2014/04/fear-of-loss/#comment-288239 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 08:55:26 +0000 http://www.hsmagazine.net/?p=60927#comment-288239 It’s an oddity for sure, Home does feel “timeless”. It’s maybe the constant, weekly updates or the ever-expanding spaces; whatever it is that makes Home feel like a perpetual, never-ending story is what keeps people coming back to it, even after months or years. In this circumstance, “Home” is such an appropriate name for it. Honestly, I never thought about the end of Home a few years ago, it just ‘was’ and as I thought, always will be!

I’m very sure Home has a good few years left in it too, so I’ll keep buying stuff I take a fancy to but sadly I’ve now been spoiled by other on-line games that do not suffer the same volume of loading screens and background checks. If Home is to ever move forward it’ll have to become a more seamless experience for the user.

I’m still hoping for a new VR version of Home from PS4 and Morpheus, but I get the feeling I’ll be waiting a LONG time for that! In the meantime, I’ll still be doing challenges and gathering LKWD Life XP, and whatever else busy-work they can think up for keeping us motivated.

]]> By: Gary160974 http://www.hsmagazine.net/2014/04/fear-of-loss/#comment-288219 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 19:31:48 +0000 http://www.hsmagazine.net/?p=60927#comment-288219 I agree with the enjoy it while it lasts stance. there are millions of users spending big time and money on ps3 titles like gta5 online knowing full well in the future that gta6 will be released probably on next gen consoles. I cant see home going before the ps3 shelf life has ended and will probably outlast gta5’s shelf life. But saying that home has got to want to continue as well. What I mean is updates have to remain exciting, any mods, hacking, glitching or exploits in games, events and spaces should be limited. Load times should be respectable ( not ultra fast because thats unfair with the amount of information sent down the line ). Broken items should be either fixed, removed, refunded. Part of what has made home users stay or go is just they ability to put up with homes issues. So the question that me and my friends have to answer is. Where do we go and spend our precious time and hard earnt money. Home has been great. Ive got friends that would of never played certain games without having been on home first but dont let it go into an unloved mess. if that happens put it out of its misery.

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