Voice chat returns on PlayStation Home

oh God! does this mean i have to download all the areas... again!

thats getting old........they need to fix that shit........

if I keep losing unlocks and have to redownload everything(outside of the Addition spaces such as Far Cry & Uncharted) then thats just bullshit.......especially since Home may be updated on a bi-weekly basis.....

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thats getting old........they need to fix that shit........

if I keep losing unlocks and have to redownload everything(outside of the Addition spaces such as Far Cry & Uncharted) then thats just bullshit.......especially since Home may be updated on a bi-weekly basis.....

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@Aggie_CEO:
Umm, its a beta dumbass. Be happy its an open beta and stop complaining.

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@Aggie_CEO:
Um... its a beta dude. be happy its an open beta and stop complaining.

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oh no..... this means i have to download all the places again doesn't it, and it takes ages aswell because the playstation home servers are always busy with everyone doing it at the same time.... :(

wer did that glitch article go to

i was thinking that

plus it sucks having to download everything over and over

patch it for gods sake!!

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same here!! i hate having to earn the echochrome suit again and again every time i log on

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Just tested and there is no need to re-download everything.

Anyone else lost all the stuff they "won"? e.g. Echochrome shrits, statues, etc.? I can win them back in a new session, but when I quit Home and come back, it's all gone. Also, all the customization to my apartment, with "won" stuff is gone. If I win back the items they reapear at the right place.

Turn all the lights off in your Personal Space. I was reading the PlayStation forums and that was one of the solutions to that bug.

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yeah but see, that's not an option when guy friends come over. and i wish it wasn't region locked. my 2 best friends live in britain and australia. *sigh*

what games can you get home stuff from?

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If you have friends in a different region, you can always set up a PSN account in that region. Then, if you want to join them in Home, just make sure you're logged into that account.

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it's a good thing the voice chat is not available in public places... when the kids starts calling each other names, i don't want to mute them all :-)
hope it stays this way

having to redownload all the areas is indeed bit annoying, but i'm sure they'll fix it when we have more areas available in time, because it would use to much of their bandwidth

I don't see much of a difference between muting all the users and having all the users muted. It isn't that hard to hit select and switch voice chat to off is it?

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rofl, it's a Beta after all. At least they brought it out before Christmas in the year 2008 - which is something. :P

Home = Fail.

I can't believe I'm going to say this.. but I'd actually prefer the NXE over this garbage.

I mean.. we don't even have customisable avatars which can be attached to the PSN ID.

Oh.. and God-forbid they give you decent facial hair options or even allow you to select the colour of your basic free T-shirt etc.

Fail, Fail, Fail.

beta...

thats all i have to say

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bambino, we get it, you don't like home. You don't need to tell everyone everytime a article about home is posted.

anyway, when I'm in home PSN IDs are displayed over everyone's avatar. So isn't that some form of avatar-to-PSN ID link?

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Beta or not, IF Sony insist on micro (well, not that micro actually) charging for everything bar the minimum in Home, I'll remove it off my system.

I don't mind paying for a few things, but when it comes to paying £1.59 for a sodding virtual T Shirt it takes the piss.

So far owning a clubhouse is next to pointless, there's next to no furniture for it, you can't stick anything up on the walls and they STILL charge you £3.99 for the privilege.

I know, I know, its only a beta, but even still, I feel a bit ripped off at the moment paying £3.99 for a clubhouse which is next to useless. I want to be able to put photos up on the wall, videos etc.. Surely it wouldn't have been too much to ask for in the public beta, especially as they're charging for clubhouses.

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"I don't mind paying for a few things, but when it comes to paying £1.59 for a sodding virtual T Shirt it takes the piss."

Where does it take the piss? And why does it take piss anywhere?

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I'm gonna be honest, I've hating Home since they removed the voice chat. It's a social service that won't let you socialize. I'm not one of the idiots that think Home is there to entertain me, but that I need to get my own enjoyment out of it. But really, how the hell can I do that if I can't freaking talk to anyone!?

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TedTheDog said in the forums already, that they're working on the "loosing items from Echo & IceB after logging of" - Problem.

Cydonia said all of our unlockable items are there, we just cant see them. When they fix it they will all return. HOWEVER ANYTHING YOU UNLOCK WHILE THE PROBLEM EXISTS WILL GO AWAY WHEN THEY RETURN OUR STUFF.

so, just wait.

you guys were all hot in the pants for the beta, well here ya go enjoy :-)

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Did TedTheDog mis-spell "losing" or did you? I don't know, because it's inside your quotation.

loosing = releasing, making loose
losing = misplacing, making lost

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yep, sorry =)
that was me... :-P

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Voice Chat in private places and clubs only? Well then i dont need voice chat. because im hearing impaired. Yikes! i feel more peace! ahh!

Are they working on private chat for the main menu yet and have that carry over to any and every game? This would help out alot for White Knight Chronicles.

with the voice chat, they should have certain areas with certain channels that you can join the the Home Square..... that way you don't have to join, or you could set up your own private channel chats, with like a maximum amount of people being allowed to join so you could have a group conversation when people are at different places so you don't have to ring them.

Wonderful move, Sony! I hated having to turn off voice just for the few bad apples. Scratch that, for everyone, as it turned out.

/sigh

No sign of intelligent life out there anywhere!

If a feature is being abused then you remove the people abusing it, not the feature itself, I don't want the text chat removed because people go around saying 'gay' as if imparting great wisdom and magnificent put-down in one fell swoop, that would just be silly.

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have any of you played the japanese HOME? man that place is cool. Siren, soulcalibur, namco (you can play pacman and win shirts, arcades for youre home,etc), everything is diferent. And we are having problem with voice chat and red bull not coming this year :P lol

Japan people are really getting the love for home.

You can have unlocks from the Namco Arcade in any region of Home. Just download it from the Jap store, then play it on your EU/US account.

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how can i get the jap store?

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I still want voice-chat in all areas not just my apartment, why not make distinctions like "Underground", "Pro" etc and other forms of filter to get the young kids who like to bash each other their own square. Pacifier toys could also be nice to add to that area as well. ;)

Censoring is just a lost effort. Let people be people, but have smarter voice options availble to filter out annoying "noise".

i would just be happy if they removed the voice changer.

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I am superglad that I dont have to listen to everyone in public places. Scary enough being chased by 4 male avatars wherever I go , imagine hearing everyone too :o I would probably just end up playing without sound all the time.

This feels like something that was released too early. I know it would have looked really bad if this hadn't come out this year, but it feels very rushed.
I've gotten into that 30+ thread and met alot of really nice mature people.

Game Launching is still disabled,. and WTF every goddamn time they update your clothes and Home space reset to default and you lose anything you unlocked,. GET A CLUE SONY!!!

I was disgusted when I first heard about when(when Phil Harrison annouched it) and now I'm getting disgusted all over again ,. Home is turning into an Epic Fail

And yet, you ended up in the closed beta while many people who were eager for it didn't. C'est la vie, non?

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I'm done with the constant re-downloading. Here's the deal Sony, I'm deleting Home from my PS3. You let me know when in 2011 you have all the bugs worked out, and I'll consider reinstalling it.

Wow... just wow... What part of the word "beta" do some of you folks not understand? Home is in beta. Last time I checked that meant subject to change at any given release. Maybe it would have been better to have kept it in a closed beta. But then the same people would be begging for keys to get in. I guess you can't please everybody.

I don't understand the part of beta that says untested finished feature-complete product.

Sorry, I meant you don't.

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Then again, most people are complaining about bugs in existing features. A beta has bugs. The point of a beta is to find and get rid of them. People should expect issues with Home, at the moment. Many seem to be expecting a fully tested release.

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But what if it's still only the total d-bags who talk? Can they turn it off again?

I dunno...Gmail beta is pretty awesome. Google Chrome beta was as awesome as the the regular Chrome is...so beta doesn't mean it has to be shitty.

True enough. People on the other side bug me almost as much as the "It's a beeeetttttaaaaa" crowd.

whats really upseting me is that sonys trying so hard to stop the foul language... i mean like... are you serious? regardless if you find ways to stop us were just gonna find new ways to get around it, so were always a step ahead... their best best would be to jus hire a teenager to help them with that... its dumb... they needa lets us be able to talk in a socializing game... because either way its gonna happen....

Voice chat returns on PlayStation Home

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