Comments on: What Would It Take To Save Home?

By: Colin_Raleigh

Colin_Raleigh — Sat, 13 Sep 2014 01:30:08 +0000

Some good ideas yes (save for the adults only part) but those running Home no longer seem to care. Their apathy, refusal to give answers on the future, and absolute refusal to fix chronic recurring issues are all telltale signs that they want to kill this virtual world as a whole in the very near future. Odds are NA and EU will die sometime later next year or early 2016 at the rate that things are going. The Vesuvius comparison is most amusing, and even though most know it’s coming, it’s obvious Sony refuses to reveal that because their sole intention in this is greed. Greed as in trying to make as much money as possible before they pull the plug. I suppose things like this as well as Sony’s apathy and refusal to both give answers and solve chronic problems are why one friend of mine now calls this virtual world Home Fraud instead. My main reason for still going on Home Fraud is not for Sony or its products, it’s for the good friends I’ve made on there these past six years. Believe me, I’d like to see Sony start to care more, fix the chronic issues, and port our virtual world to PS4, but the odds of that happening are easily even lower than winning the lottery or finally seeing another Legacy of Kain game (the upcoming Nosgoth doesn’t count but that’s a whole other story). Point blank, our virtual world is currently on life support. We know Sony’s going to pull the plug soon, we just don’t know when soon will be.

By: Javier

Javier — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 06:19:02 +0000

I don’t know about that last one but everything else is spot on. All this I had in mind at least. once before.

By: Gary160974

Gary160974 — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 22:34:23 +0000

No problems, second life and imvu are 2 of the most successful social mmo’s so we are right to look at what makes them successful, bearing in mind both started out before home and it looks like they will outlast home as well. Seeing as second life can be complicated to use compared to home and imvu is far more basic than home. Both have lag and crashing issues. So the actual program’s are not as good as home. But we will take the scenario of fashion, big in home, but homes fashion pales into nothing compared to the choice that both the others give it’s users. A Good start for both second life and imvu is the ability to create your own fashion line from nothing and sell it within the community. The ability to derive from others work to create your own version. The ability to build a public space from the ground up so you can have your own fashion venue that’s designed and maintained by you. Second life you can adjust the trims of bought clothes to suit your avatar. Thousands of body types and default actions are available in both. That’s just one area. I could go on loads but I won’t this time lol

By: Phoenix

Phoenix — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 00:05:59 +0000

Thank You Gary,
for sharing and not because you agree with me either. lol I felt the same way about Home and some of the familiar content in Second Life. It’s as if Home wanted to go in that direction but then changed its mind. It wouldn’t take becoming another Second Life for Home to survive, but it would take some growing up and stability for Home to survive.

By: Gary160974

Gary160974 — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 23:39:04 +0000

Homes biggest problem is it’s user base, something like 150 million psn accounts have been created, yet it takes aurora 2 and a half years to get 13 million visits over 4 regions, that’s visits not unique accounts, it took a year to get 1 million unique accounts. Which probably means 70000 regular users over the 2 and half years if you take how many visits it takes to get to level 100 and over. These figures are no better than a mediocre game that’s released in one region. Homes suppose to be social yet the most successful fan sites average about 5000 followers on social media and the developers that give away stuff about 20000 followers on social media. Home videos on you tube are lucky to be seen a 1000 times. In contrast second life and imvu users embrace social media more beating home in every social media aspect. Second life doesn’t rely on rumour about oculus rift, second life is going to be available using oculus rift headset. Unless home gets it’s user numbers up dramatically it’s not worth migrating it to the ps4. As for a new revamped home, it sounds from an interview done a while ago that the cost it took to set home up and run on the ps3 meant Sony made no money out of home for several years. There’s a lot easier and quicker ways of making money for Sony. Take the current granzella event the high score board is way down on user numbers against the same event last year. That’s even taking into account it’s in less regions this year.

To me your right in just about every point, all these features you mentioned are available elsewhere, it’s like home took everything that was wrong in second life and imvu and made it better, but then took everything that was successful in second life and imvu and threw that away as well. Homes has no direction but not sure if it’s tried to listen to too many people that thought they were doing right when really they were clueless to was needed. Example is launching games from home. Who had the idea, lets log into a slow loading app like home, try and meet people with the game that want to play now, slow load into game because we are in home, when I leave game it slow loads out back to home. When I can load game goto a lobby find a game and play. I have to say that adult areas can be the same as games, take neon downtown in Japan that’s got a 17 certificate and it’s no different to the drinking parts in gta 5. Kids get into gta 5 with no comeback to rockstar so i don’t think Sony would open themselves up to lawsuits if they do it right. It when take some of the embarassing uncomfortable users away from the areas you wsnt to keep cleaner.

But like all entertainment you have to keep the memories. Even if your favourite band spilts after you have been to see them in concert, just remember how good they were in concert. But make sure you see them in concert and don’t miss out.

By: Ransom

Ransom — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:56:18 +0000

It might be coming to an end for the PlayStation 3 console, But it is just the beginning for a brand new re-vamped type of PS Home experience coming for the PlayStation 4 w/ Project Morpheus Virtual Reality.
It’s only going to get better. Costly, But better. You think it’s going to be a decent amount of money to fork over for the PS4 console if you don’t already have one, then the VR Headset, but it’s not that much if you think about how much the current PS Home users spend, I know I have spent a lot over the years. So doubt this comment if you like, But I know it’s coming. If you REALLY, REALLY dig deep enough, You will find the answers you seek.

By: Phoenix

Phoenix — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 14:00:13 +0000

Thanks Jin,
I understand your concern as well as that of others when the adult regions are mentioned. I don’t understand the immediate rejection however of the idea. These regions if implemented could have been controlled just like the x7 barrier, or the Lockwood barriers. As it is now these adult themed activities (that you speak of) appear in popular Sony video games, and not all adult activity is sexual. There is/was a need for separation in the age groups. Children should not always mingle with adults.

By: Jin Lovelace

Jin Lovelace — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 11:01:20 +0000

I, in a whole, disagree with the adult area suggestion. If they desire that, people can use Second Life and IMVU for that. I believe that Home is fine without that sort of mess. There is too much underlying psychology with that sort of feature being implemented and that would also put legitimate users of under age at big risk. By then, Sony would be opening floodgates of possible pending lawsuits against them. BIG ones, at that.

That might be crazy talk, but that’s something I’m not keen on. People do fine with their Groups and personal, private spaces. It’s bad enough I sort of see this in public and even then, it’s uncomfortable.

However, everything else is on par with what I desire on Home.

Great read, Phoenix.