Comments on: Sorry Folks, No E3 in Home This Year

By: Gary160974

Gary160974 — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 19:14:22 +0000

Looking at a second time I’m not sure whether that app was heavily sponsored, even commissioned by someone else. Seems amazon have a big hand in the app plus it’s released the app in USA only because Sony rewards aren’t available anywhere else except the USA. Looks like Sony haven’t done anything for e3 except put it on they blog.

By: HearItWow

HearItWow — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:10:39 +0000

Here’s what I don’t get: approximately 82 million PS3s sold globally versus 8 million PS4s. Why is Sony marketing to the converted?

The people you want watching the E3 conference are PS3 owners who haven’t upgraded yet, yes? Why shut out Canada and all of the global users who’ve figured out how to access NA Home? Give the PS4 the app, but don’t write off 90% of your users because they haven’t upgraded. That’s remarkably short sighted.

Sony could have killed the booth and just given us a theater with a T-shirt reward and made people happy. They also could have taken two minutes to tell the community through their official forums that no E3 event was coming. It’s astounding to see how poorly this was handled. Even if you’re just talking about a few thousand customers, those are a few thousand loyal customers, and it doesn’t cost any extra to post an explanation on the forums.

Instead they run to the blog and try to paint this like it’s a good thing. Smart customers know better. Given the loyalty that Home users have shown, Sony should be giving us reasons to buy a PS4, because there’s a good chance we’ll continue to be loyal customers. That’s not happening, and it says a bit about a company’s arrogance when that company feels it can ignore a group of loyal customers.

By: Gary160974

Gary160974 — Sun, 08 Jun 2014 12:24:47 +0000

Sometimes when a business is conceived it sounds a good idea, but in reality it doesn’t matter how much hard work is put in by its owners, developers and customers, what it needs and what it can afford are too far apart to make it a success. The band played on in the titanic because it had no choice. We as home users do have a choice, there are enough life boats to save everyone. If Sony truly thought that home would be the best and most profitable way to show E3 they would of done it. Reality is saying it isn’t. We seem to have a massive discrepancy from the amount of users on home and the amount that seem to be bothered on home via other media. I believe last figures mention were something around 20 million users has used home at least once. But only 50000 ( that’s a generous figure ) use other social media and click like on home related stuff, most are well below that figure. That’s about 99.5 percent of home users that either don’t use social media or don’t care enough about what’s going on to click one button. When out of the 90 million psn users. 37 million users do have social media accounts or have enough interest to click like. Thats about 40 percent. On average most of homes competitors seem to be able to get 10 percent plus onto they social media sites. All these figures are there to see just look on all the social media out there.

By: Colin_Raleigh

Colin_Raleigh — Sun, 08 Jun 2014 06:52:04 +0000

Home is sadly in its Fat Elvis days now, it’d be in much better shape if the people who ran it actually gave a damn about the people who use it. Still no answers as to whether or not Home will be on PS4, ongoing negligence, lack of communication, and apathy from the Home staff, trolls, fams, and other troublemakers on Home still being allowed to go unpunished, the discontinuation of new content for the Hong Kong and Japan regions, and now this. That was really cowardly how that one blog poster told everyone on a Friday the bad news about no E3 on Home and then fled, it shows a severe lack of respect for the customers that have paid his definitely undeserved high salary since Home’s inception. A lot of people have been saying that this move is yet another sign of the end times for Home, and as much as I hate to admit it, they’re probably right. Odds are given the high level of disrespect the Home staff have shown us, Home will be shut down for good by the end of the year. The Home staff doesn’t care about us, and when the end comes in the very near future, they’ll most likely handle this with the same lack of class and respect that they’re known for all too well as of late. Namely letting us know with little to no notice. As much as it pains me to say this about Home, the end is nigh.

By: John C. Ardussi

John C. Ardussi — Sun, 08 Jun 2014 03:13:26 +0000

Yes.

By: Susan

Susan — Sun, 08 Jun 2014 01:19:51 +0000

I think Sony should have kept the status quo. The band on the Titanic played until they could no play more..There are still new people joining and experiencing Home every day.. I think this was a bad call on their end.

By: Burbie52

Burbie52 — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 12:01:12 +0000

This is another nail in the coffin I am afraid. By all accounts Home has become an after thought where Sony is concerned. Their silence and their lack of respect for all of us who have spent a great deal of time and money making Home a success for so long is very disheartening. I feel most sorry for the developers who are still trying to make money and have a lot still invested in Home for the next year or so. This is a sad state of affairs.

By: Gary160974

Gary160974 — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 09:28:51 +0000

Get to think they knew it would come out some where, but just didn’t care. Perhaps the home community is too insignificant to be bothered about it. Or they think we will release a new top or reward next week and alls forgiven. Perhaps as a business it’s doomed to fail but at least treat people with some respect for trying to help make it work.

By: Jersquall

Jersquall — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 07:09:05 +0000

It was a bad corporate mistake from Sony top to bottom the way it was handled. I have been upset about this the entire week. why the week? because the signs were all there. No comments from Sony when multiple threads and comments were asking, because or Twitter retweet that was fresh and very respectable was retweeted over 30 times fell on deaf ears.
My personal opinion and I mentioned this in the forums among a bunch of other things.. It’s been just over a year since I felt that Sony still cared about the community and all that we have been asking is for them to care about us as much as we have for the service. All this was handled wrong. Business I understand but for Sony to drop this PS4 app news in the middle of some guys thread and bail without any additional information about the E3 Home event not being in Home was disturbing. a forum member tracked down that info on the Sony blog.. The writing is clearly on the wall.
TY, HSM for doing all you do.