PlayStation Home Hits 10 Million Users

[DeadlyYellow]

The Home Experienceat least according to Penny Arcade.

I love my PS3 too much to make it enter Home. There are certain games I won't expose my consoles to, like the Kingdom Hearts series.

 

[Marik2]

Since I am a brand new PS3 owner (still enjoying that new console smell although I still haven't got my PS3 badge) I checked out home and gotta say what a mess. I left my apartment to be bombarded by text chat that I had no idea where it was coming from. Every space is designed to sell you crap for your avatar and apt. I did find a few fun little games though. Like in the R&C hub (but it took me a while to find the good game).

Anyways is there any way to get rid of it and get those GBs back? I lost 30 before installing a game

Just press triangle on the Home icon on the main menu screen and it should say delete

Will that give me everything back? Because when I look at the space it says it is only taking up a few KB

You're probably looking at Game Data Utility, it shows how much your profile takes up. On the menu just go where you access Home & press triangle

 

[Donrad]

wow i jumped into home once and it was too much to take in...
as if it was loaded with dozens of low life preteens D:
if they make it more worthwhile i might glance at it again

 

[squid5580]

Since I am a brand new PS3 owner (still enjoying that new console smell although I still haven't got my PS3 badge) I checked out home and gotta say what a mess. I left my apartment to be bombarded by text chat that I had no idea where it was coming from. Every space is designed to sell you crap for your avatar and apt. I did find a few fun little games though. Like in the R&C hub (but it took me a while to find the good game).

Anyways is there any way to get rid of it and get those GBs back? I lost 30 before installing a game

Just press triangle on the Home icon on the main menu screen and it should say delete

Will that give me everything back? Because when I look at the space it says it is only taking up a few KB

You're probably looking at Game Data Utility, it shows how much your profile takes up. On the menu just go where you access Home & press triangle

Ya that is where I was looking. Thank you.

 

[SaintWaldo]

Is there some new standard for game names now? How is this name any more or less silly than, say, Oblivion? Or MULE?

Is turnabout fair play Mr. Funk?

You don't have a daily Oblivion intake. All I'm sayin'.

I sit on a Halo all day, and I've met a few on the internet. Just saying.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

I've been on Home quite a few times. Even with new spaces there's nothing to do. It takes 5 minutes to do everything in a space, and then you're bored. I do like living in my batcave though, but the furniture I have doesn't match the style.

It's like Second Life in HD (I have to say all the spaces look amazing), but without the user generated content that brings you back.

 

[Disembodied_Dave]

Y'know what? I don't think this news is wroth its salt.

 

[Archemetis]

When I read the title I was like "Why would that many people log on to walk around with a placid-faced avatar that looks like a "Realistic" sex doll in a shitty little virtual world with practically nothing in it?"

Then I read the "Have logged on since it was made live" part.

Now it makes slightly more sense.

 

[The_Ghost_Ninja]

My only memory of Home was making a friend of mine Change his character into a girl and run around the Main area. He received about, 30 Friend Requests. lol

 

[jimduckie]

hey wait a sec ... yeah 10 mil is alot but what about those who joined and found out it sucks and left ? the number is technically wrong ... maybe sony should just give up on home on ps3 and start working on ps4 home , so it will be perfected and actually be fun maybe even something i'd find a use for... till then home sucks and was another sony mistake ... again like no backwards compatibility on ps3 slim ... the bastards

 

[SmugFrog]

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Okay, I should stop now before I end up salting the earth with too many more bad puns.

Can't fake the funny!

I love your articles. I would love to see how many users Home has on average each day, rather than how many have logged in overall (a one time login doesn't count for much use).

 

[HyenaThePirate]

I dont think this statistic is factual...

The Real statistic is probably more like:

"10 Million users have tried HOME once, realized it's shite, and never gone back."

That is probably closer to the truth.

 

[SniperWolf427]

How the HELL can ten million people find it fun to walk around in a 10 feet by 10 feet virtual world with a retarded looking zombie avatar?

Seriously, some people just can't find anything fun to do...

 

[HyenaThePirate]

The first mistake was the idea that regular people (not computer nerds without lives) would pay very real money for very virtual stuff.. you know.. like clothes and stuff for your sad, and lonely virtual apartment.

The problem is, Home gave me very little reason to spend my time there. Sure it was worth a quick look, but quite frankly, I had more fun reading the description of Home than actually playing IN it.

Worse, it seems like on every attempt to access it, I'd spend forever downloading some update that never became readily apparent that something had 'updated'.

It didnt take me long to have my avatar sell his apartment and all it's measely furnishings, tell his friend's goodbye, and then leap to oblivion from my sea-side balcony.

 

[sephiroth1991]

Do people actually use it? i have a user area but i don't use it.

 

[Silva]

Oh God! "Salting the Earth"! It burns! The pun burns like a thousand suns! Oh no! That rhymed! Now THAT burns!

With that said, Home is a horrible waste of space and time for anyone not interested in paying real life money for in-game things.

Wait. Stop right there. I tried to have fun with it for free, I really did. But, the most I could achieve was to watch (more times than I wanted to) some game trailers that I'd be better off googling anyway.

There is no reason for anyone to play this. If anyone is going to waste time on their Playstation that exorbitantly, I suggest that they use it for Folding Home instead, and get something good done. That could, of course, cure cancer, but no, they'd be better off with a pool table in their "bedrooms" in Home, wouldn't they?

 

[James Hueick]

Now that they have 10 million users they should get Home world wide.