PS Home open to everyone this year News

First...

And whee, time to pretend to be 12 and chat up the girls ;)

Still want it, but apparently I'm not loyal enough. I know I'm impatient, but I think I have the right to be given the delays.

I'm totally fed up with this. It's been so long being O it's this year.. DELAYED.. O it's this year, I really don't care anymore.

will be interesting to see for how long home will be beta, maybe just like gmail ;)

The 'loyal user' thing is total bull. Mate of mine bought a launch PS3, kept it for about three weeks then sold it on eBay. He's had absolutely noting to do with any form of playstation since. Last week, he got a Home beta invite..

No, you can't have it.

Jon

Home is very good, bit odd wandering around when none of your friends on on but it has sooooo much potential.... see you online later for stress test if you get beta!!!

I know you will be looking at this Lizer, so yes... I have posted a comment.

Oh, and playstaion love me more than you.

It is about loyalty. If you were loyal enough to get randomly picked when they pressed their Random Choice button, you got in. Have to be hyper loyal to have the power to change probability to get in!

Reading through the spin, it says "open beta this year". Still no indication when the actual finished project will be released. (Though to be fair there isn't much difference between something working that everyone can get for free and has the word beta written somewhere and something working which everyone can get for free and hasn't.)

They said its not going to be "finished" as such, just eternally added to and improved upon.

when you say what?

Not caring anymore because of the wait and then being one of the first to download and use Home once it's out...two totally different things.

But I bet they'll go hand in hand with 99% of the whiners here ;)

Uhm.. if it was revealed only last year, why are people whining about it being delayed and stuff? Since when has ANY ambitious project taken less than a year to complete? I mean, a normal game takes 2-3 years to make, why would this be any different? I know it's not actually a game, but I would guess its complexity rivals that of any game.

J1GSAW, that's a clever comment there son, well done!
I'm guessing fannying about playing dress up in a virtual world is waaaay cooler, and somehow less camp then? Silly bugger.

And I must say that NickJC is a great symbol of why Xbox Live sucks.

Homophobic and idiotic in one go! Great work!

Hurf durf, yeah alright we'll see it this year. BETTER GET A SKATE ON HUH

NickJC

What?? I mean.... what??? Dear god man grow up. There's plenty of room in this world for more than one dash and more than one console. If you don't like it then why comment about it?

In my opinions, I love Miis, avatars and whatever the Home people are called. I'll call them Homies. Sure, they sometimes look silly, but I still like them.

@NickJ

Sweet, one less asshole on home then.

I already have a home, granted it's a rented flat only... still it's a home.

anyway, looking forward to this home then. whenever it comes out. regarding the "open-beta" thing... most of google's stuff is still BETA... so, who cares?

it's free anyway, chill ppl

Despite never buying anything with my US account from the US PSN store or adding any posts to the US forums, my US PSN account got an invite last night.

So how's the whole loyalty working?

Anyway, I spent about a hour downloading the bowling alley (which is amusing), the mall (which has empty shops) and the movie theatre.

Where's the fabled "Uncharted" bar and the Warhawk strategy room?

There's not much else for me to do except talk to randomers and change my avatar. I now look like Djibriel Cisse. I have a red afro and white eyebrows with an explorers moustache.

@ NickJC, you've always come across as a complete twat, but that's standard for both sides of Teh Console Wars (TM); however, with that comment you've just entered the realm of utter ignorant c**t. Homophobic rants like that one seriously worry me. Someday you are going to have gay friends, or some of the people you know now are gay and are too scared to tell you because of how they think you'll react. You really should feel ashamed of yourself. We're edging towards the second decade of this millennium and you're still trying to continue that kind of out-dated tripe? Pitiful, for both you and us as a species that we tolerate people like you.

Then again, the universe usually has the last laugh. Everyone I've known who has felt the need to publically say 'Me I'm straight, I like girls' have turned out to be raging queens and a lot happier for it in the end. Funnily enough it also happened the opposite way arond with a gay friend who kept insisting how repulsed he was by women and then got a girlfriend. It's a weird world. NickJC, I hope you get what's coming to you if you keep up that attitude.

Does anyone else genuinely think that NickJC was serious? It reads like a tongue-in-cheek rant, but perhaps I'm missing something.

Tongue in who's cheek though that is the question? :)

Even if it was it's not necessarily called for is it?

Back on topic though i'm still intrigued by home and looking forward to seeing how it works once it's fully populated

I don't see how home improves the PS3 in any way really - apart from presumably meaning it takes about 2 minutes to start playing a game (if you log into home to do it) instead of 5 seconds after booting up the PS3? What is the point? Can someone explain to me, I must be missing something. If you just want to play games, sometimes with someone on your friends list, and bnuy things from the store, how does home help? Where's the benefit. This is such a waste of sony's time/money. No wonder there's no bloody games for the PS3. They could have at least made a mmorpg and released it for free, surely?

When January 1st comes and its still not year we will get a new statement... "We meant financial year" ... "2009/2010".

I saw some videos of the beta recently on youtube, the running man lines ones, and it does look interesting but sadly very second life like. I gather they have started the game specific areas? that sounded pretty awsome but untill they get something concrete going I think I hold off on buying a PS3 for it (well until KH3/ZOE 3 comes out anway)

I got the beta, I'll tell you how (may or may not be suprising)..

My main a/c which I've used 3 or 4 times a week on average most weeks since I got it on launch wasn't invited. Yet, my sub US account which I made in August and have used maybe once or twice a month for five minutes was!

Thought it was okay mind, not a lot to do yet.

"Me I'm straight, I like girls so I will not be going to the gay orgy house you call home."

^ gay as a daffodil.

@ mkreku

Home started development in 2005 but the idea was first talked about in 2003 (possibly 2002) I believe, during an interview with some magazine.

Thread contents:

* talk about Home
* people calling NickJC a cock

good shit.

I'm glad he keeps getting banned and coming back so we have someone to ridicule. Although its a bit easy at times.

Does anyone actually care about Home anymore?

At first I read that "Jack Bauer" - thought Sony were pulling out the big guns.

no BENNO. I couldnt give a flying fuck about it since it was first unveiled - and even less now.

So the PS3 is going to be even less about games soon. May as well just hand 360 and Wii the gaming thrones and wait for PS4.

Day, month, and year, or STFU Sony.

christ, who would want "just a games console" nowadays? I'm seriously hoping the next xbox becomes a fully loaded uber beast, and I mean that. That would be massively on my radar. Based on the "we're a media download medium too!" adverts, thats how its going and I reckon thats alright.

i have a key, but my ps3 is fucked at the minute. wont be getting a replacement till 01/12/08 - which incidentally is the expiry date for my code!!!

Its on version 1.0.1 now!

oooo

Got my invite :)

@Chessboxer:

From the article: "The ambitious and free virtual world was unveiled alongside LittleBigPlanet at GDC back in March 2007."

Granted, I haven't been following the development of Home in the slightest, but unveiling does sound like they showed it for the first time in 2007? I'm sure there's been rumours since forever, but that's besides the point, I think.

What? More invites sent out today? If I don't have one it's a joke because I bought their console at launch when it was a stupid price, I use it every week, plus I have a psp and download games for that too. Surely people that registered a PSN account when the service launched are loyal enough.

Meh i couldn't care less. They can keep this sims/second-life hybrid closed for as long as they want as i greatly prefer classic ps3 xmb - 100% of usefullness 0% of useless crap :)

I gotta say, NickJC, that that was some very skillful trolling. Kudos.

"I'm glad he keeps getting banned and coming back so we have someone to ridicule."

That probably explains why every now and then he pops up again. Apparently the ignore function is reset once people get banned.

I got the beta last night. Nothing much there at the moment but going on first impressions I think it has potential. I'm looking forward to features and services etc to be added which will hopefully improve the service.

Yawn. Copying Second Life is so 2006 ;)

Isn't all this PS Home and NXE is just distracting from playing quality games.

"Isn't all this PS Home and NXE is just distracting from playing quality games. "

Home yes, NXE no.

NXE is just a redesign of the dash. Faster, smoother, better organised. Also includes better online gaming tools like persistant parties and party chat options.

Home is a 'social networking tool' (virtual facebook) and not game related in any way.

I'v e had the invite and while Home is impressive, its equally "meh".

I don't do Facebook etc so this has a very limited appeal to me.

However, if the video bits work, then it would be a nice way of having friends round to watch naughty films ;)

"it would be a nice way of having friends round to watch naughty films"

Haha! There's always a silver lining! ;)