Home downloaded by 3.4 million Comments by Oli Welsh

'Home downloaded by 3.4 million'

and deleted 10 minutes later by 3.3 million

I've visited twice.

Although I enjoy reading news which proves some people have more money than sense when it comes to the virtual world. Heh, what do I know, I'm old and the kids probably gain muchos kudos for having the latest Diesel t-shirt when they're sexually harrsasing the one female whose bothered to logon.

So only one sixth of the PS3 base downloaded a free product? Nice job!

the_dudefather beat me to it, word for word!

I deleted mine due to hard disk space (need to upgrade) but once the redbull stuff and other things come online, I might actually reinstall it.

I told you in that review/preview thing comments thread that there would be gullible people who'd make it worthwhile for Sony! And there are, see?!

I think Home is okay, just a little bit empty, and I've got no interest in trying to meet new PSN friends there. I'm actually considering deleting it too, due to lack of HDD space.

I've visited twice (once in the closed beta, once about a week ago). I enjoy bowling and the arcade games, but other than that there's not much to do.

The dudefather=tosser troll

I tried Home once, but the misses kept tilling me to tidy up my crap & the kids got on my tit's, so I went back down the pub with my mates.

Log onto Home using your JPN or US account there are a crapload more home spaces to enjoy.

Yes somehow Europe got the shaft on Home as well.

Delete it if you don't like or use it and jog the fuck on.

It's free and it has its fans/userbase and is making money for Sony. As the months and years progress it will eventually grow and grow.

Home aint going nowhere, so to all the haters who have nothing of any importance to say, the sentiment still applies. Delete it and move on. And if you're an xbot, you don't belong here.

@ Steroyd:

Yes, Europe is getting shafted. I wish they could seperate the U.K. from it and just give us the same content as the yanks get because we're both mainly English speaking. Apparently they're trying to get closer to a same week worldwide release schedule for the PSN but it aint happening consistently enough yet.

@PrivateJoker

No, dudefather= mostly accurate. Feel free to relevant threads, but no-one has been blown away by it, and most got rid of it since it takes up more space than it actually needs.

Plus, to troll there has to be someone to defend it. Not even flag-carrying SDF members will defend it, at least in its current beta form.

EDIT: Sorry, I posted that after your first post but before the follow ups.

@Dfawkes:

Home sits rather nicely on my 250gb hard drive thanks. And just over 3gb isn't that big when you consider the install sizes of GTA and Fallout 3 for example, both over 4gb.

PS. I think it just seems a pointless excercise to criticize an application that is free and constantly evolving. People bashing it to me seem like anti PS3 fanboys who just want Sony to fail. Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony will all be back with new consoles in the next ten yrs and none of them will have failed this generation imo.

no, people bashing home aren't really out to see Sony fail at all, in general. It's just not a product for us, but the hype is aimed at us.

people defending home on the other hand, what's up with that?

And I wonder how many deleted it after? Waste of hard drive space.

I have to say, the home lovers do certainly seem to be in the minority on this one. I was quite looking forward to it when it was originally announced, but by the time it was released I was bored of the idea. I downloaded and had a go once, then immediately deleted - I didn't jog anywhere though, maybe that's where I went wrong ;).

I'm not surprised people are buying lots of stuff, just look at the bloody mobile phone market, with those god awful, cheap adverts selling ringtones and screensavers. You'd be surprised how many people actually buy that crap.

"and deleted 10 minutes later by 3.3 million "

But still making good money for Sony, so they really don't care.

Being free does not mean that it is above criticism - look at many people complained when Facebook had a revamp

And of course, it's not free to Sony. Far from it, and when so few users actually seem to want it, this argument ties in quite nicely to the fact that Sony aren't paying money to secure exclusives and DLC, for games like Fallout 3. I, for one, would prefer them to throw more money in that direction.

No offense Sony,im just being honest here but home really doesnt do it for me at all. I have owned all the playstations for one reason and thats to play games not to stand in virtual queues and waste money on clothing etc.that doesnt actually exist and the santa suit for example really is a piss take! If i want to see a movie or games trailer i will go to a website not stand in a fake cinema for 45 minutes to watch 5 minutes of video.If i want to go bowling i will go to my local bowlng alley with my friends and meet real girls not sick minded 45 year old peados acting as teenagers.
I paid £425 for my PS3 to play awesome games and watch blu-ray movies not this shit. I already have a life and i dont need a virtual one.

I'm going to go back into home once that EA space is added.

What I do not understand is why people feel just because a product is free you cannot criticize it. Yaris was free on XBLA and everyone panned it as crap but you do not see anyone defending it do you. Free doesn't mean a service or game is exempt from criticism instead it means that because it's free, you lose nothing if it is crap. You can still criticize it because if no one said anything then the person who designed the free game or service would not know if they did a solid job.

In that respect, Home deserve everything it gets and it's up to Sony to fix it if they want anyone to take Home serious. People need to stop being apologist and instead voice their concerns and expectations of a service that was promised a lot and has not delivered. I want home to be the service that Sony promised and I do not mind waiting but at this time Home isn't even close to what was promised and it looks like it will a long time coming before it gets to that state.

In other news 'People will pay for anything'....

Somebody's got to pay for PSN I guess, it might as well be people dumb enough to pay $4.99 for a virtual house. Keeps it free for the rest of us.

@PrivateJoker

Personally I criticise Home because it has a lot of good ideas that would be so much better if Sony hadn't got obsessed with the whole virtual world idea. As it is, I'm never going to use any of the functionality because it's hidden behind endless load times and a clunky interface.

"'Home downloaded by 3.4 million'

and deleted 10 minutes later by 3.3 million "

QFT. Most disconnected, non-user friendly, seemingly pointless Avatar/MMO experience it has ever been my misfortune to come across.

Glad it was free, because otherwise I'd feel ripped off.

Released way, way too early in my opinion. Needed to come out 2010 at the very earliest.

I girl did a crotch thrusting dance in my face on Home.

That is all.

Poor bastards.....

jaxon58,

Are you sure that was a girl?

On the new EA space, I am wondering if that will make me come back to Home. Lately my friends and I have been using the party system within the 360 and the more I use it the more I like it for it's simplisty. Last night, a few friends and I emailed each other that we are going to play Horde at 9:30. We already have a party setup so once everyone join the party we can dive right into the game. I happen to come home late and my buddies started without me and they already had five members so I could not join.

The cool aspect of the party system is that I could still communicate with everyone while they played Horde and I played Fable2. Also another cool aspect of the party system is that when I turn on my 360, I am two button presses from joining my friends without having to go into a system like home, find my friends get to a game place hub and then decide to play a game.

I really hope Sony copies the party system from MS for people like me who want a simple method of gathering with friends and playing games.

Well she LOOKED like a girl, so she must have been.

@ Jaxon58 "I girl did a crotch thrusting dance in my face on Home."

I was on home and i played bowling and pool with some girl who then followed me around for ages and invited me to her apartment. we chatted by text for a while and then she asked if i want to video chat. It was then i found out that it was really an old man who asked me some really pervy questions. i reported him to sony but after a while i was approached again by a similar weirdo. i was mature enough to know these sickos are clever and manipulating and potentially a danger so reported them but some younger kids may be influenced by these people and thats some scary shit.

"'Home downloaded by 3.4 million'

and deleted 10 minutes later by 3.3 million"

Right, so it has 0.1 million users, and $1 million dollars spent = $10 per person. I would imagine, if that was the case, Sony would be pretty pleased as if every used is spending $10 in just a few weeks, they will make millions from it.

I'm surprised that pervy old men even know about Home and how to install it. Maybe they're more tech savy than they were in my day, when they just offered us sweets.

Yeah, it is sick though.

I haven`t deleted it yet but if those 3Gbs get in the way of something enjoyable it`s gone.

Fair play if you enjoy it, each to their own and all that, but it ain`t for me.

@KingsXKing

Shrugs and yawns...whatever. Phony customer who owns PS3, PSP, iphone, PC, Laptop and used to Xbox360 (traded for PS3) and Wii(sold to mum, who loves wii fit lol) Ive been gaming for 25yrs mate, how about yourself?

this notion of it being 'free' when there are so many microtransactions involved, but a virtual sofa, buy some virtual clothes etc is a bit dubious. Free at source maybe but to get anything out of it you have to spend money. I have really no idea of who woould buy any of this stuff, but obviously people are and good luck to sony for that, just the whole thing seems a bit of a con and not very well done to me

re hate towards home - i have no hate towards it personally its just not very good

OMG teh $ony BIAS!!!!

@ kungfubob

But you cant do video chat in Home can you? Did you just make that up? lol

So does this mean it's actually a success then? Fuck a duck. Good for Sony, I guess.

Havent been in Home since about a week after it launched in beta.

THere's little to do or to entice me back, but I will go back in to take a look at the stuff that's been announced when it's available.

I suspect most people will do the same, even if they are bitter and twisted about it like some on here.

@PrivateJoker: "I think it just seems a pointless excercise to criticize an application that is free and constantly evolving. People bashing it to me seem like anti PS3 fanboys who just want Sony to fail."

BS.

First things first, nothing in life is free. There's always a cost somewhere. In the case of home it comes in a real push to have as much as possible as paid content and the development costs are probably one more item in the loss side of the PS3 balance sheet for Sony. Add in the fact this was one of the main bullet points for Sony in 2007 that they were using to try and convince people to buy a PS3 and it's more than fair to comment on it. Let me put it this way... if the NXE for the 360 had been terrible would you honestly be saying 'it's free so you can't complain"? I somehow doubt it.

As for criticizing home, good god, where to start? How about the stupid 'beta' tag when Sony have flatout said it's probably never going to leave beta (rendering the beta tag pointless as an excuse for poor implementation). How about the fact that Home hasn't delivered the functionality that was advertised two years ago? How about the fact that Home is currently the ONLY way to have on-line groups (or Clubs in home-speak) and it's going to be a subscription service? How about the fact that Europe is once again being treated as the red headed stepchild of the sony family? The list is pretty bloody long at this point. And don't forget that all of this effort, all these resources, could have gone somewhere else. What, for instance, if they'd got the home team working on additions to the XMB, would we have seen groups, a unified messaging system, social networking etc built right into the OS by now? There's always a cost somewhere, even if it's an opportunity cost.

But the real nonsense here is that if you criticise you're an anti-PS3 fanboy. Now, I'm sorry, but I'm so bloody sick of seeing this sort of crap spread around. Has it ever crossed your mind (and I'm speaking to all those who have this viewpoint not just PJ here) that there are some of us out there who don't give a stuff about the manufacturer of our gaming equipment? Who apply an equal critique to everything in our gaming life regardless of whether there's a sony or microsoft badge on the box? Who would love to hold a rational debate about the pros and cons of something only to see idiot fanboys defend their point of view and emotional investment by sticking their fingers in their ears and repeating the same ludicrous 'if you don't like it you're just an anti-fanboy' nonsense?

Home is massivley late, under-developed, expensive and a huge let down after the amount of hype Sony generated for it in 2007. Does it have potential? Yes. Will it deliver? Maybe. Will owners of the console think to come back to it when it's fixed? Some will, some won't. Has it been a massive own-goal for Sony? Good lord yes.

Home is massivley late, under-developed, expensive and a huge let down after the amount of hype Sony generated for it in 2007. Does it have potential? Yes. Will it deliver? Maybe. Will owners of the console think to come back to it when it's fixed? Some will, some won't. Has it been a massive own-goal for Sony? Good lord yes.

Dude, I gotta ask, what is it with you and bee's?

@Vistrix

"But you cant do video chat in Home can you? Did you just make that up? lol
ignore poster"

No i didnt make it up,we chatted on MSN

Home is to on-line gaming what Microsoft BOB was to operating systems.

I would say "Excuse my ignorance, but what is Microsoft BOB?"...

...but I'm guessing that's the point you're making. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_bob

I had headed there striaght away anyway, good old wiki! Thanks for the linkage regardless. As I suspected, my not knowing what it was, was the point you were making anyway. If it were a success I'd have heard of it. :)

What is a social club license?

If I ever meet anyone who says they bought a virtual potted plant or a pair of virtual jeans for 3.99 I will inform them that they are indeed what are commonly referred to as a stupid cunt!