Comments on: Home’s High-Water Mark

By: scamp_73

scamp_73 — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 11:57:04 +0000

I think Home “jumped the shark” with the breaking up of the hub creating a empty feeling. Before the big update Home always seemed busy and vibrant, after it was a bunch of empty spaces and gltchy games. Bootleggers was terrible and so out of place in the action district. Sports walk and the adventure district was always empty.the mall seemed useless after you could buy things without going there.

Pier park was the lone stand out for me. It brought people together instead of separating them.

By: MsLiZa

MsLiZa — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 19:48:27 +0000

I was thinking the same thing about the introduction of the Hub as the turning point in Home. I don’t really think that the retirement of Central Plaza was the major factor either.

The baffling aspect is that the supposedly “new and improved” Home had so much promise. I remember visiting the new spaces during the Hub beta. Not so much the Hub itself but the Sportswalk, Pier Park, Adventure/Action districts, Indie Park, revamped mall and the quests really gave the impression that Sony was taking Home seriously and positioning the platform for future success. It seems that not long after that point Sony essentially abandoned Home to the third-party developers. Whilst those companies did a lot for Home, the platform was really doomed because Sony lost interest.

I certainly don’t know what prompted Sony’s disconnect but Home faltered at the point when it should have soared.

By: jughead8you

jughead8you — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 04:23:41 +0000

I believe the point that Home headed over the peak and came crashing down was after they took the plaza away. When the new Home debuted, I had almost 90 PSN friends, all of whom I met through Home (I don’t play games online). Most all of them were long time Homers. Within about six months, I saw only about half of them logging onto the network at least once a month. Not many more going into Home on a regular basis. Everyone was either playing a game or going onto video services, like Netflix or YouTube. In the past year or more, I have only seen about a half dozen of them in Home at all. Unfortunately, Sony did to Home what Microsoft did to the XBOX.