Ironman273 Posted May 27, 2010 Share Posted May 27, 2010 Report: Home Finally Leaving Beta, "Is Not S**t" Kirk Ewing, from PlayStation Home developer Veemee (who make virtual spaces and items), reckons Sony's underwhelming virtual network service will be emerging from its long-running beta at the end of this year. Having entered an "open beta" in December 2008, Home has been in that state ever since, despite appearing for all intents and purposes to be fully armed and operational. While for some it's been a useful tool for chit-chat and furniture organisation, for most it's been a disappointment, Sony's original plan for an online "hub" central to both communication and multilayer gaming never really materialising in a world awash with soulless avatars and user-paid advertising. According to Ewing, though, that beta phase will be coming to an end this December, when Home opens for real. He also has some words for the service's detractors, telling attendees at the Game in Scotland event in Dundee, "Most people think that Home is sh*t. I'm here to say that it's not." Source: Kotaku Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedon Posted May 27, 2010 Share Posted May 27, 2010 LOL, I forgot about Home already. Seriously. They probably should too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas-c Veteran Posted May 27, 2010 Veteran Share Posted May 27, 2010 What's going out of Beta? :s I don't understand home... Saying that i never understood habbo hotel either... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xilo Posted May 27, 2010 Share Posted May 27, 2010 Saying that i never understood habbo hotel either... POOL'S CLOSED Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
still1 Posted May 27, 2010 Share Posted May 27, 2010 Ok. may be i dont understand the use of Home on PS3... what does it do? just get in an environment and run and talk to people. what else would it do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DPyro Posted May 27, 2010 Share Posted May 27, 2010 Might have to take another look...but from what I can tell, the loading screens are what kill it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaltLife Posted May 27, 2010 Share Posted May 27, 2010 Might have to take another look...but from what I can tell, the loading screens are what kill it. It's a little different. A hell of a lot better than what it was when it was first released. Still not sure if I like it. But it is kinda cool how you can setup 'rooms' for people in your clans (mw2, KZ2, etc) But yea the loading killed it for me too Oh, and if you haven't been in a while prepare for a LOT of downloading. It's a huge update Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Posted May 27, 2010 Share Posted May 27, 2010 So a rep from a company that uses Home as a marketplace says that actually it's quite good, and in 6 months it will be, er, much better than it is now in some way? It's coming out of beta. Well that's great, but so what? Really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
name in use Posted May 27, 2010 Share Posted May 27, 2010 I loaded home up once and that was right when they released it. I wonder how many people use it? :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vice Posted May 27, 2010 Share Posted May 27, 2010 Maybe Sony should just abandon this. It's a failure and it's time they moved on and stopped wasting resources on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pygmy_Hippo Posted May 27, 2010 Share Posted May 27, 2010 You have to admit though, "It isn't" makes for a compelling arguement :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Posted May 27, 2010 Share Posted May 27, 2010 Perhaps that's what they mean by "coming out of beta" - they're not doing any more development and are just going to let it stand or fall on it's own now :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmpyreanUK Posted May 27, 2010 Share Posted May 27, 2010 I couldn't figure out how to get out of the first room. In the end I concluded it was some sort of metaphor or somesuch, only that it reached far, far beyond the grasp of my time and patience. In my experience, then, it was indeed '****'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DPyro Posted May 27, 2010 Share Posted May 27, 2010 OK...just checked it out. They now have an XMB like interface to enter different rooms, still takes a long time to download and load though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrunknMunky Veteran Posted May 28, 2010 Veteran Share Posted May 28, 2010 He also has some words for the service's detractors, telling attendees at the Game in Scotland event in Dundee, "Most people think that Home is sh*t. I'm here to say that it's not." The rest of the world say, "yes, it really is". It's nowhere near the level of interactivity they said it would bring or the features they promised. I remember in 2008 when there was all this hype from former members and how Home was finally picking up pace. Has it ****. And no doubt it'll be the same in December. The most they've done the past year and a half is bring some very useless Home Spaces for games & opened it up for devs/studios to sell items. Which no one really cares about because no one uses it. If they could incorporate the Home avatars into the XMB somehow that you could even communicate/view/share things with people not using Home, I bet it would have sparked a little more interest. I feel sorry for anyone that ever wasted money on digital clothes in Home. It'd be a different matter if it was on show, but it's not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00000 Posted May 29, 2010 Share Posted May 29, 2010 It's been a pretty good platform to sell people imaginary clothes, every time they pimped some new update on the PS.Blog I would log in to check it out and there were always plenty of people standing around wearing clothes bought from the Store so Sony is at least seeing some revenue on it. Who knows what they spent developing it though, could be a long time before they see a profit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyLarry Veteran Posted May 29, 2010 Veteran Share Posted May 29, 2010 If they actually ever added the capability of being to join up with friends in a party type system and then being able to all join the same game, as they have been talking about doing forever now, I can see that as being a feature I would actually use, but that is truly about it. With that said, I will say I had me and my wife laughing pretty damn hard for a good 30 minutes when it first came out making my virtual avatar start a dance off in the middle of the town area, it was amusing to say the least, but that novelty then quickly wore off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo003 Posted May 29, 2010 Share Posted May 29, 2010 Oh I remember how everybody was so excited when home was in open beta. People made accounts like crazy, and now it's just sad. :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+E.Worm Jimmy Subscriber¹ Posted May 29, 2010 Subscriber¹ Share Posted May 29, 2010 "Most people think that Home is sh*t. I'm here to say that it's not." wow, really???? /me runs away to go hang out at the Home. NOT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Livin in a box Posted May 29, 2010 Share Posted May 29, 2010 He can't tell me what to think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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