Max King of the Wild said:
I think sony would have to get special licenses for online gambling (which is what your pool idea is) and I don't think it would be worth it to SONY. Movie would be nice in the theatre and so would the special "home" for clans.... I heard it takes money to make a clan and someone said it would be monthly. I would actually make a "vgchartz" clan if it weren't for the monthly payment idea. a place where vgchartz people could meet and read messages on the leagues and trpphies on a bulletin board. It would be pretty sweet then... (can you join more than one clan?) Oh a place where only 18+ people could enter would be awesome! They could have many possibilities then |
No, the pool idea is linked to bar life... The "quarters" aren't real, they're just there to put your place in line. No gambling.
As for clan/guild support, that's bullshit. If you're going to make this Second Life crap free, make it free. If you're going to charge, I'll just continue rocking XBL - and so will most other people.
Hosted websites (outside Home with their own URL a la Myspace home pages), message boards, meetings, etc, that will drive Home to prominence.
This half-assed shit by Sony just ain't going to cut it. They're trying to make Home into a Second Life for gamers and earn advertising from it yet they still want to charge users who bought their console the ability to organize.
Yeah, that's how you build a strong community. XBL may not be free but everyone recognizes it. When you get into microtransactions for random bullshit, you lose all ability to maintain a base. People walk in thinking it's free and then realize it ain't. Believe it or not but that's actually a bigger turnoff than realizing you have to pay from the beginning.
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