Sony launches Home Open Beta on December 11

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For those that did not get an invite to the closed beta, you can check out Home starting tomorrow, December 11th. Check out this latest post from PlayStation.Blog PlayStation Home Open Beta Launches Tomorrow Posted by Jack Buser // Director, PlayStation Home The day we’ve been waiting for is here! And this is just the beginning… Today we announced that [...]

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[UncleGramps]

Now you can all enjoy the mediocrity that is Home(TM)!

:banana:

At least it'll be more fun if people you know are using it. Maybe. :shrug:

[Canis Firebrand]

Now you can all enjoy the mediocrity that is Home(TM)!

:banana:

At least it'll be more fun if people you know are using it. Maybe. :shrug:

Hey. don't knock it yet.. I haven't seen it to join you in making fun of it yet.. ;)


I'm sure I'll get bored with it after a short while, but darn it.. it's all new.....

Sony is totally going to win this round of the console wars... Home blows away anything the competition has to offer.... (if you believe the fanboys at the sony forum)

[UncleGramps]

I know I shouldn't bag on it too much, but it was really underwhelming. I'm just adjusting your expectations. ;)

[Music]

I know I shouldn't bag on it too much, but it was really underwhelming. I'm just adjusting your expectations. ;)

:ditto:

Right now it is a waste of hard drive space. :mad:

[Canis Firebrand]

:(

Screw you both.. I'm gonna love home and play nothing but home... the 360 is for chumps.. ;)



rotfl

I'm sorry.. I couldn't even post that with a straight face.. Though I'd fit in well at the Sony Forums if I could pull off consistent posts like that.

[NJAsmodeus]

Is there a laundry room in Home? Because if there is, Folding should be done from there.
:rimshot:

[monkeyspit99]

boooooooooooooooooooo!

[Canis Firebrand]

Took forever to get into it.. Tons of network errors.

[supercarrot]

Is there a laundry room in Home? Because if there is, Folding should be done from there.
:rimshot:

we always do our folding in the bedroom.

[Canis Firebrand]

This made me laugh.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2008/20081212.jpg

[UncleGramps]

:lol:

A surprisingly accurate portrayal of the terrible "service" known as Home.

[CzarCastic]

But, it's free!:sarcasm:

[Canis Firebrand]

And a direct quote I read last night in Home.

"M$ ain't got shit on Sony now!"

It is amazing how the sony fanboys think that this service is superior to what Microsoft has with their live service. Sure, Home is free.. But if I wanted to play a sims game, I'd fire up my PC and play The Sims.

At the end of the day, my PS3 is for playing games and watching blu-ray movies, not interacting in some socially awkward mess. I should fire up a video camera and make a female persona and tape the assaults that "she" receives.

[UncleGramps]

Yeah, that's the core issue with Home - what is the point? If it's just a visual chat room, what does that have to do with gaming? The Xbox Live features provide an easy way to jump into games with people - I saw nothing like that in Home. First you have to fire up Home (which is not a fast process), then find people to play with, then launch a game. Since Live is a core part of the 360, there's no app to fire up - you just party up and start a game.

I really don't know where Sony is going with Home, but if they don't figure that out soon, it's gonna be a sparsely populated hangout for Sony fanboys.

[Shlugendah]

I'm going to go register on the Playstion forums and see what I can stir up . . . right now.

[Canis Firebrand]

I'm going to go register on the Playstion forums and see what I can stir up . . . right now.

:thumbsup:

Keep us posted.

[Shlugendah]

Here's what I posted in the "When will Home recieve new content?"
http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=ps3home&message.id=452843&jump=true

Let's see how many suckers there are. Maybe I'll even put in my Halo3 Signature to let them know who's who. :lol:

[Primal Urges]

Apologies to anyone I may have raped in Home. If I knew it was your avatar, I would have bought it dinner first.

[Shlugendah]

I'm not sure how to put in my sig there, yet. So, the extra harrassing will have to wait.
edit: Nevermind, figured it out. This should be good.

[Slitt Vicious]

I'm not sure how to put in my sig there, yet. So, the extra harrassing will have to wait.
edit: Nevermind, figured it out. This should be good.

As if it wasn't enough having you stirring up stuff here all the time...now you're causing problems at the Sony forums?

[Canis Firebrand]

A better review from PA in addition to the comic posted above.


The Beta for Playstation home is now available to everyone, and now you know what I know: this is what happens when your marketing department tries to make a game. Here is everything you need to understand about Home, if you should accidentally launch it from your XMB: press and hold the Playstation button in the center of your Dual-Shock or Sixaxis controller. From the menu that appears, select Quit.

There are things about Home that are simply beyond my understanding. Chief among these bizarre maneuvers is the idea that, when manufacturing their flimsy dystopia, they actually ported the pernicious notion of scarcity from our world into their digital one. This is like being able to shape being from non-being at the subatomic level, and the first thing you decide to make is AIDS.

If you approach an arcade machine and there is a person standing in front of it, you will not be able to play it. Likewise, if you see people bowling and think that bowling is something you might like to do, you probably wont be able to. Unable to play arcade games like Ice Breakers and Carriage Return the first several times we logged on, these games had begun to take on an epic stature in our minds. These were gushing fonts of liquid fun, habit-forming and dangerous - for the good of our virtual society, the supply had to be controlled. When we were finally able to play them, we learned that they were the equivalent of browser games.

There is nothing about the experience of using Home to suggest that you are actually moving through a single, contiguous environment. It is very clearly a handful of walled off zones, where you are confronted by incessant load screens in a desperate search for stimulation. From the moment you enter one of their ultrahygenic "amusement regions," it's clear that all life has been burned away. You get the sense that this is a place in which no interesting thing could ever happen.

There is already a growing school of Home apologetics, fostered by the same Order of Perpetual Masochists who lauded the rumble-free Sixaxis at launch and suggested, hilariously, that Lair and Heavenly Sword were videogames. They're under the impression that because something is free, this places it on some golden dais beyond censure. It's no virtue to give away something that no-one in their right mind would buy. They have no idea what this world is for, and that ambiguity infuses every simulated millimeter of it.

This is the terrible secret that roils beneath their false universe: it is nothing more than a cumbersome menu, a rampart over which you must hoist yourself to accomplish the most basic tasks.

[Shlugendah]

As if it wasn't enough having you stirring up stuff here all the time...now you're causing problems at the Sony forums?

:inform: Now you will fight! :inform: You must pay for your sins! :inform: I must now destroy you and your family! :inform: :kungfu:

Besides, the sony forums are a problem. We must crush them while there is still breath in them.

[Primal Urges]

So disappointing. Nobody has taken your bait yet. Those Sony boys sure are slow.

[Shlugendah]

I may have to say something more to the point. :think:

[xmiyux]

I really don't know where Sony is going with Home, but if they don't figure that out soon, it's gonna be a sparsely populated hangout for Sony fanboys.

But think! It could be like a fanboy quarantine!

We need to get something like that for Live stat!

[UncleGramps]

But think! It could be like a fanboy quarantine!

We need to get something like that for Live stat!
I wonder if you could emit a tone through their speakers to make their heads explode...

[NJAsmodeus]

I wonder if you could emit a tone through their speakers to make their heads explode...

at the very least sterilize them.

[xmiyux]

I wonder if you could emit a tone through their speakers to make their heads explode...

Isn't that voice masking?


at the very least sterilize them.

To do that you just give all members of the quarantine a subscription to WoW. Effectively sterilized!

[UncleGramps]

To do that you just give all members of the quarantine a subscription to WoW. Effectively sterilized!
Who in 8BB played a lot of WoW? I vaguely remember that one of us was into it.

[xmiyux]

Who in 8BB played a lot of WoW? I vaguely remember that one of us was into it.

JediMatt still plays.

tjrmental was an original member who gave up all other gaming to just play WoW.

[UncleGramps]

I did play WoW for a number of months but gave it up after it started feeling like a second job. :lol: It really can eat up your free time.

[supercarrot]

it really is nice now that you no-longer play it, and have time for "other things."