PlayStation Home relaunches this fall with a questing system, themed districts

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
interesante!

Looks cool. I'll check it out for sure.

I hope they work on their audio for example (footsteps, voice chat) cuz i hate going into a room and theirs no audio except for music and some are totaly silent. sometimes makes me think there's something wrong with my speakers

I'm going to go to Home to mess around with the zombie stuff.

Wow, I would actually try this, unfortunately I deleted home to make room for important game stuff.

This all sounds interesting, but I have to agree with the others - fix all the loading times and then lets be worried over the content.

i wish microsoft would do something like this. they try dodging the bullet w/ things like full house poker 1v100 and avatar kinect but its not the same

avatar kinect is a joke; its the only kinect game ive played that doesnt work in my apt at all and its a dumb idea to begin with

I'll be honest, I actually visit Home.

I fully understand people's complaints with it, especially regarding loading times, but I still find myself toodling around the different locations every once in a while, getting free items, trying out some of the games, and listening in on the occasional inane conversation.

The biggest problem I have with it is there is no "there" there, you sort of never knew what you were supposed to do, and nothing ever felt like it was a "can't-miss" experience.. The Killzone 3 "takeover" and games were a good implementation, and the Sodium 2 space points to a place where people can actually "game" in the environment, but it still seems like an idea that hasn't...quite... come to maturity yet.

Luckily, Sony seems to be paying attention and is continually mixing it up and trying to make it more compelling, so we'll see what this new update holds. Home is really a great idea, they just need to make it something other than curiosity for it to really fly.

I always though they should of made home basically an mmo sort of place, where u could use your trophies as money to buy rare loot and stuff, and do quests for trophies. And they could still have there casual spaces too. Maybe some day.

The main issue that others have raised is that Home is unlike Second Life, its unlike WoW, its unlike most MMO experiences, and therefore has little reasoning for anyone to bother with it. I check it out every now and again, once or twice a month for a few minutes to see whats up and maybe chat with someone, but that's about it, I have no objectives, no motivation to use it and I'd rather be playing a game tbh.

What Home needs is this:

- Less loading: This drives me mad ¬_¬
- More reasons to check out spaces: Some spaces have something going, singstar for example is a little nightclub, so its pretty cool, UFC looks quite interesting as well, Irems beach is also very popular and BUZZ is a hellafun with lots of people, but other spaces like the Socom space, Uncharted Space and others are dead, why? Because there's nothing to do except buy stuff, once you see the scenery, you have utterly no reason to EVER return there.
- More objectives: This quest system sounds fun, I don't want an interactive version of the playstation store, I want a gaming platform so that even if I had no playstation games just yet, I'd have lots of fun just messing around in Home. Quest system sends people on a journey to explore, much like Freerealms and WoW, Home needs this.
- More sound: Lack of sound is boring, convince people to get mics so you can jump into convos if you have one, or typing made easier and faster. Music, concerts, plays, movies in the cinema, anything like that is interesting :/
- More connection with games, why can't I use my avatar in games I play? Wii does, so does Xbox. There are other ways to have more correlation with games they can think of.
- Make Home more lively, I want to feel like I'm in a city, like I shouldn't miss something, like something is ALWAYS going on somewhere at some time, heck, the main hub could have a calender and events list telling you what is going on and where in the Home world so that you can check in at those times and join in in the fun to win stuff. Dance competitions in Singstar, multiplayer tournaments in a FPS paintball / lazer tag hub, go-kart racing space with tournaments going on, tennis, football, surfing, UFC / wrestling fighting ring, avatar boxing ring, an arcade booth with lots of arcade machines with retro classics you have the option to buy if you enjoy from the PS Store....

God, there is so much they could do with Home that it annoys me that they haven't yet :/ If Lego Universe can be entertaining (to a certain extent) why can't Home have all that?

Probably weren't making enough in they way of microtransactions. Figured giving you a bigger variety of stuff to spend money on might translate into more money in their pockets.

Not to sound cynical, but I'd love to see them support their platform with both their interests, and interests of their customers in mind. As it is right now, I see this as nothing more as an experimentation into how to squeeze more dough out of us. I'll skip it.

home is boring it needs something like this to make it a place i want to go to go to go toooooo

They should create an option for the PS3 to start-up in Home when you turn the system on and they should set it up so that your character is in his/her house with a selection of games sitting in front of him/her (which are the games that you own) that you can select from to start up.

Basically, it should be a more advanced version of the Wii and Xbox Avatar things.

That's what I thought Home would be when the first announced it.

Needless to say, I was really disappointed when it came out.

Will this place get rare earthquakes too :P ?

The most ironic part about Home is the logo.

It looks like the bottom fell right out of it!

Did no one else immediately think OMG CRACKDOWN!
(?)

Home is a bloated replacement for what should be a menu driven experience.

Imagine if you had a smart phone and instead of just clicking on your apps and games, you had to walk your "avatar" around inside the phone to do anything. It would be damn near pointless.

Sony has been trying to dump a "feature" on people that isn't a feature. Home is a complete waste of time and energy.

just create a paintball arena for a cheap and easy FPS game and ill be interested. Just paintball guns and avatars, in a free-for-all style match

Cool! Too bad I can never use Home because I didn't lie about my age when I first got my PS3...

Home..... why would anyone play you with games like UC3, BF3 and arkham city coming out this fall

I like Home they way it is, but they still need more in Home game launching support.

Hopefully this will bring more of that.

I got used to the loading. It's about the same length as old PS1 games.

Home is fun, but there are so many people with huge ego problems on there. It's really annoying.

One thing I would like to see is having separated age-appropriate areas to meet in. The server could check the person's age based on their PSN info, and set them in a room with other similarly-aged players. That would get rid of all the creepers.