Should Sony have delayed Home again?

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#1 rsoxguy12
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Now that Home is finally out, a lot of ps3 owners are describing the application as lacking. There isn't much to do and everybody is surpsied that this is the final product after two years. According to this thread, the majority of us find it boring, almost twice as much who enjoy it. We have all seen the topics filled with complaints and criticism.

So now I ask you this: After two years of delays, should Sony have delayed Home once again? Would it have been better to wait longer for a better product (even after the initial delays)? Most find Home underwhelming and we all remember the connection problems that occured at lunch, and I believe some people still have problems. So what should they have done?

Edit: To all these people replying that Home is still a beta, you are right, but that does not answer my question. I enjoy Home, I am not bashing it.

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#2 Puscifer_No1
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I think they would have the same results even if they had delayed the app another time. I was interested, them I joined in when they still had the closed beta and I slightly enjoyed it, up until losers on there started their immature antics and stupid babbling on the mics. That's when I decided I wasn't going to enjoy it anymore, even if they have disabled mics, because people are still as stupid on their as they were back when it launched
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#3 CanadianCR
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Honestly .. even starting Home was one of Sonys biggest mistakes .. it's the most useless thing ever, in my opinion ..
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#4 CosmoKing7717
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-shrugs- it's still a beta...
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#5 Floppy_Jim
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People would have been really pissed off if they delayed it yet again. They should have just not revealed it so early in the first place.
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#6 mjk400
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Seriously, what were you guys expecting from HOME

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#7 Puscifer_No1
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I really didn't have any expectations from an app. Now if this was an actual game I'd be sorely disappointed and the disc would be used as a coffee coster ;)
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#8 TelcharXI
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You can only test an application so much before you release it to the public. There will always be challenges when releasing an online application as you have the X factor of how big of an actual load will be on the servers and the code. Only by releasing it to the public are they actually to see where they may need to put constraints and indexes on databases, or need a more powerful server.
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#9 CanadianCR
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I really didn't have any expectations from an app. Now if this was an actual game I'd be sorely disappointed and the disc would be used as a coffee coster ;)Puscifer_No1

:lol: Wonder if people use their PS3 as a coaster ..

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#10 Puscifer_No1
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Now that would amuse me :)
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#11 darkiiix
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Seriously, what were you guys expecting from HOME

mjk400
and the fact that sony we never stop adding and updating HOME I don't the point of complaints its free
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#13 CanadianCR
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ITS STILL A B-E-T-A!!!!!!Tx-1000

Being a BETA doesn't excuse its pointlessness ..

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#14 deactivated-58319077a6477
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No. They should cancel it.
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#15 aflakian
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Since it's not even close to being complete, it was smart of them to just get it out now rather than later.
People were going to be disappointed either way.
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#16 417alum
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Home's not even out it's in beta form
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#17 nellyg619
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honestly i didnt know wht the whole idea behind home actually was/is??
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#18 blazndragon0
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Like people say, it is still a beta. If it were delayed even more, people would have been more upset then than now. At least now we have some semblance of what's to come, even if right now there really is nothing too special in Home.
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#19 HellsAngel2c
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well i enjoy it- i love social networking sites though, so that would explain it
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#20 KrzyJoe
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Home is just for meeting people and talking , WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT!?
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#21 tommystockley
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Home is just a customizable Lobby. It's not a game. You pay for those. But fact is it's still in beta. They slowly add the features on 1 by 1 to make sure they work with large numbers of people online. Over time we'll see our trophy rooms, our picture frames to put photos of whatever in our apt. And who knows, maybe we'll be able to stream our music soon enough for anyone in our apt to hear. What I look forward to the most is Lobbies for my games, using content creating by the actual game developers.
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#22 enemy-within11
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Sony needs to get their ass in gear. Home should've been out and fully running a long time ago. And still, Sony should be focusing on creating some new big titles for Playstation.
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#23 hnic7466
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i voted yes but now i change my mind i want them to be done with this crap so they can focus on bigger better things home is lame i knew it would be from the start. if you want to socialize do it in real life and while im bashing virtual socializing im going to bash virtual flirting or picking up its lame and sad if the only way you can get someone is by hitting on them in a virtual world so they cant even see who you really are
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#24 rsoxguy12
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bump
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#25 Merovingyo
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It should be cancelled.
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#26 Staryoshi87
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Home is out, huh? When I participated in the beta, I thought it was garbage to be honest. As an adult, I don't have time for side-activities like that.
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#27 kingmickey2
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Oh absolutely!
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#28 jikiboyo
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I think most people are failing to realize that its STILL IN BETA meaning that it is STILL a work in progress. Of course not all of the features are there, and its lacking in content. I feel that it might have been an ok move to bring it out because they are able to get a larger amount of feed back from users now that it is an open beta and thus can fix more problems and address more issues.
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i voted yes but now i change my mind i want them to be done with this crap so they can focus on bigger better things home is lame i knew it would be from the start. if you want to socialize do it in real life and while im bashing virtual socializing im going to bash virtual flirting or picking up its lame and sad if the only way you can get someone is by hitting on them in a virtual world so they cant even see who you really arehnic7466
I agree with the whole virtual hitting on avatars and stuff like that, but through Home I have met 8 people already who are online around the same time I am and like to play SOCOM. Meeting these people through Home and playing Socom with them has made my Socom experience better because these are 8 guys who play the game using communication which is important to Socom. In that sense, Home has already served its purpose in my opinion. It's all about what you were expecting, and too many people made up too many fantasy views about what Home would be all about.
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#30 417alum
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it has potential it's just lacking if this were a mlb 08 the show RTTS player it would be a D player with A potential just a comparison
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#31 acsguitar
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Yesterday I bought my Ps3.

I tried logging into Home which failed. Tried 2 hours later and it worked.

Tried to setup my charecter and it wouldn't let me press the X button to do anything. Then I couldn't figure out how to get out.

It was stupid and weird

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#32 rahul_batta
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Honestly, I dont understand why it was delayed. If anything if this is pretty much what they had for us before, release it as is, and just build on it. There is not much more you can do. Also I don't think charging for a digital couch is gonna work so well, so they should have made the place really nice, and able to customize the house with loads of couches pictures, and a trophy room, and stuff like that. Kind of like.... I mean it wasnt gonna be much more then that.
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#33 The_Rick_14
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Yesterday I bought my Ps3.

I tried logging into Home which failed. Tried 2 hours later and it worked.

Tried to setup my charecter and it wouldn't let me press the X button to do anything. Then I couldn't figure out how to get out.

It was stupid and weird

acsguitar
So it was stupid and weird because you couldn't figure out what buttons to press? It's not that hard.
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#34 CanadianCR
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[QUOTE="acsguitar"]

Yesterday I bought my Ps3.

I tried logging into Home which failed. Tried 2 hours later and it worked.

Tried to setup my charecter and it wouldn't let me press the X button to do anything. Then I couldn't figure out how to get out.

It was stupid and weird

The_Rick_14

So it was stupid and weird because you couldn't figure out what buttons to press? It's not that hard.

:lol: The tutorial tells you everything ..

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#35 one_on_one
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I believe Sony made a mistake by showing it off way too early as always and showing off features that they later took out. Showing Home so early with all kinds of features just gave people high hopes and high expectation. But as you can see, the reception for Home releasing at its current state is more negative than positive.

So in a way, yes, they should have delayed Home, but only if it wasn't even announced to begin with. If Home came out as a surprised, I believe more people would've loved it and accepted it with open arms, but people were just expecting more since they announced it so so early.

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#36 dimebag667
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They should've released it when it was in it's bare bones state at GDC. The game room is ok, and the idea of having people come look at my trophy room and stream my music is cool, but the theater and the courtyard(or whatever its called) are totally useless areas. If I'm gonna play a game I'm not going to log into home, go to that game's area and ask people if they want to play.

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#37 MassacreMonk
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Home is just for meeting people and talking , WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT!?KrzyJoe

I wanna be able to connect.