After trying for a day and a half to even log in to PS Home my first thought was "I waited 2 years for this!?". Its like Second Life with a new and shinier skin, or maybe like Uru Live: Myst Online except it has no game as a background. I will give you a brief run down of the (in my opinion) Epic Fail that is PS Home. You start out by making an avatar. The creation here involves some sliders and adjustments that is supposed to allow you to make an avatar that looks super realistic and just like you. However, you will never actually make an avatar that looks remotely like you in any way. The sliders limit what you can and can't change, if you move one you move them all at once in some way. This also makes it really hard to tell what each slider actually is changing. You can change individual features a little big using a siding point grid but this still allows very little tweaking. Customization is done better in Fight Night Round 3 then in PS Home. Sony where is my face recognition using the Eye Toy?... (more after the jump)
I personally never cared about PS3 HOME to begin with to be honest. I just turn on my PS3, watch Blu-Ray, and I'm happy :) The Playstation Network looks better. So I'm guessing HOME will improve over time. (Like the New XBL Experience) and like Spera said Home isn't game, It's a Social Network which is why I don't care much about it. And you get what you pay for. So when your getting something for free don't expect much.
I seriously LOVE Home.
There is nothing better than taking my big fat barefoot skin tight acid wash jean, turtleneck wearing gay cowboy out for a dance party with random guys. Seriously it's fucking hilarious. Andy and I were literally CRYING we were laughing so hard the first night he downloaded it.
...I think you're missing the point.
Home isn't a game, it's a social network. It's used to meet up with your friends and launch into games with, and to interact with other people you've met online. The entire idea is to get to know the people that you're playing with.
I'm not going to say it's perfect, it totally functions for free. They also said waaaaaay back that you'd have to pay for some things in the world, but you don't need them.
You want a cool new shirt? Well some designer had to make that shirt, it needed to be animated in the world, and a programmer had to make it display when you choose it. You get so much for free but your gripe is that it's not completely free? That's bogus. Like I said, it's functioning and you don't need to lose any cash using it.
You say in that blog that it's in Beta, but then go on about how small it is and how little there is to do. It's not finished, and it's not a game.
I really don't understand why everyone's disappointed by it. It's a free service that you have the option to use and was never advertised as a game. What did you really expect with it? Nazi aliens, a third person cover system, and regenerating health?
I completely agree with you. Home was one of my selling points in picking up a PS3, and for it to come out so bare bones and lackluster, it's just crap. 95% of avatars look the same, and the sliders are just awful. They could take a page from Saints Row 2's slider system and customization of a character.
