IGN UK: 3/4 editors say Home is useless :(

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#1 Squall18
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I was looking forward to getting my ps3 w/ home. Personally, I prefer simple userface like the NXE, but it's alright. thoughts :(

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#2 -Sniper99-
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I don't really care to be honest. From what I played, HOME was pretty lame, just as I expected:)
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#3 DJCUEBALL
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I still like Home. It's Beta and I think it will get better over time.
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#4 WAIW
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I agree. Personally I think the same of Miis, Avatars, etc... Doesn't interest me whatsoever.
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#5 Giancar
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yeah I don't care either but the potential is there, Home needs more dev and game rooms...that could be very nice
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#6 thegoldenpoo
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I was looking forward to getting my ps3 w/ home. Personally, I prefer simple userface like the NXE, but it's alright. thoughts :(

Squall18
well it IS pointless by what ive seen, its a 3D chartroom. how is this going to save the ps3 sony?
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#7 MarloStanfield
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I agree. Personally I think the same of Miis, Avatars, etc... Doesn't interest me whatsoever.WAIW
that's because you're a gamer.
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#8 II_Seraphim_II
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The only thing I have used HOME for is playing pool and meeting the occasional player. In all honesty, im probably going to saty away from it until more game spaces are added. I want a resistance 2 space so I no longer have to play co-op with douches :cry:
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#9 EPaul
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it's ok, nothing to write home about
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#10 black_tempest
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[QUOTE="WAIW"]I agree. Personally I think the same of Miis, Avatars, etc... Doesn't interest me whatsoever.MarloStanfield
that's because you're a gamer.

This, I mean Home appeals to a much differemt audience. Think of the wii, most "gamers" on this board hate it, yet it is still massively succesful.
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#11 thepwninator
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it's ok, nothing to write home aboutEPaul

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#12 DontBeHatin1983
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some people will like and some dont and for people like me its useless to go around chat with people or play pool.
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#13 Sully28
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I like it alot so far. Its a great place to go inbetween games to just mess around with friends. Its a social network and it does just that perfectly.
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#14 elpoep
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I've played it and its pretty lame. I'd rather spend time on MySpace... and really, I was over myspace like 2 years ago.
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#15 Cedmln
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And Sony never claimed it to be particularly usefull. Its just an alternative to engaging with the PSN community. Nothing more and nothing less.
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#16 hopesfall2own
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I still like Home. It's Beta and I think it will get better over time.DJCUEBALL
How can it be a beta when everyone has access to it? "open beta" means released version that isnt working properly. Its an official release that will get patches, not a beta..
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#17 BioShockOwnz
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It's been in the making for years and this is all we get? Seriously? I have little faith in the future of Home. I think Sony will wipe the slate clean over the next year and ditch Home. It's for the best.
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#18 espoac
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I more or less agree. But, it's free so who cares?
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#19 too_much_eslim
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And Sony never claimed it to be particularly usefull. Its just an alternative to engaging with the PSN community. Nothing more and nothing less.Cedmln
lol really? So just waste time, resources, and hype it up on something that isn't going to be useful. lol Hardcore fans of any product always amuse me. You sir should win post of the year.
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#20 chaosX303
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Well I think its crap like I expected, it does allow you to meet new players fairly easily.
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#21 king_bobo
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I still like Home. It's Beta and I think it will get better over time.DJCUEBALL
I agree - 3 gigabytes of reserved space is a lot, they've got to fill it out somehow, so let's hope it good.
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#22 Leo-Magic
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[QUOTE="Squall18"]

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I was looking forward to getting my ps3 w/ home. Personally, I prefer simple userface like the NXE, but it's alright. thoughts :(

useless, thats what I brother told me after he used it and uninstall the HOME.
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#23 360-ps3-wii-pc
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I will spend some time in home but lets be honest a cleaner ui would of been just as good if not better. I mean I would rather keep the system memory for other uses. Home is a nice thought but the NXE is pretty much my taste. Either way I dont are to use Home for anything other than to explore every now and then.
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#24 patrickjw333
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i agree, home sux.

do we need all this?

all i wanna do is game and get online and play with friends thats it. mii's avatar's and home dont intrest me one bit.

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#25 meme378
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It's been in the making for years and this is all we get? Seriously? I have little faith in the future of Home. I think Sony will wipe the slate clean over the next year and ditch Home. It's for the best.BioShockOwnz
There's a lot of potential, but ultimately, despite the "innovation", it was a waste of development time, in my eyes.
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#26 360-ps3-wii-pc
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[QUOTE="patrickjw333"]

i agree, home sux.

do we need all this?

all i wanna do is game and get online and play with friends thats it. mii's avatar's and home dont intrest me one bit.

mii's and avatars are ok for things like primetime if it ever gets going. but I think its fair to say gamers dont care about this useless part of gaming. we would rather have more ui custom options that we can do ourselves. It would be nice instead of home if they would have like a myspace for gamers where you can build a personal site with blogs, achievments and how you got them. things like that would be more attractive.
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#27 6matt6
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[QUOTE="Squall18"]

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I was looking forward to getting my ps3 w/ home. Personally, I prefer simple userface like the NXE, but it's alright. thoughts :(

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well it IS pointless by what ive seen, its a 3D chartroom. how is this going to save the ps3 sony?

After 2 years of hype its rather pathetic that this has taken all this time to develop.
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#28 Mckenna1845
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I was looking forward to getting my ps3 w/ home. Personally, I prefer simple userface like the NXE, but it's alright. thoughts :(

Squall18

it is disappointing imo, but you can't compare it to nxe, it's a social network, not a new interface for the console. If you want a comparison to the nxe, use the xmb.

I agree with some of the posters that the mii avatars are all pointless, it's ok sometimes on the wii were they are integrated into some games, but they look so stupid, there is no point using them, a good version of the mii would be if you could take a picture of yourself, and it developed your character, like in tiger woods i think, that way you would want to use yourself in game.

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#29 XturnalS
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Im not an IGN UK editor but I have to agree that Home sucks and its useless to me but there are people that do like it and for them I guess its great but for me as it stands its very lackluster and dissapointing
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#30 Vyyral
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The problem with home is that Sony was more concerned with making money than building a community.

Imagine if they let every trophy count as a sort of currency, which you could use to renovate your house and buy new additions. You know a guy plays a lot of games when they have a mansion type of thing.

Unfortunately, Sony would rather nickel and dime you to death than add a cool feature like this. Which is sad because it would make home more relevant to gamers.

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#31 0bscurity
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I didn't download it, maybe I will when it's finished.
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#32 DJCUEBALL
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[QUOTE="DJCUEBALL"]I still like Home. It's Beta and I think it will get better over time.hopesfall2own
How can it be a beta when everyone has access to it? "open beta" means released version that isnt working properly. Its an official release that will get patches, not a beta..

Because when you get on Home it says Beta young grasshopper.
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#33 -DrRobotnik-
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It is pretty much useless. Ive yet to sign in successfully, keep getting that damn error
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#34 pi3m4ster
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i bought a console to play games... not hang around in a crappy virtual world... with the typical cod4 crowd no less :|