Well I got "Home", and WOW

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TKC-Muzzer said:
But isn't second life popular? Whether you like it or not there are a lot of people who will use it just to meet others and that will not change. Casual gamers will love it and that market is big. As most things it can only be judged in a couple of years. It's like me with the NXE on my 360, personally i think it adds nothing and slows navigation down and is a waste of time but others (mainly M$ lovers) think it's the best thing since slice bread. At the end of the day it's horses for courses. Remember HOME is free and also optional so you lose nothing if you do not like it.

 

Man, this is like the 5th time I referenced this in three days, but this PS news post once again states things perfectly:

There is already a growing school of Home apologetics, fostered by the same Order of Perpetual Masochism that lauded the rumble-free Sixaxis at launch and suggested, hilariously, that Lair and Heavenly Sword were videogames. They're under the impression that because something is free, this places it on some golden dais beyond censure. It's no virtue to give away something that no-one in their right mind would buy. Sony has no idea what this world is for, and that ambiguity infuses every simulated millimeter of it.

Second Life is successful because it's complete, has more options, and people can actually make money off of it.  Home offers none of those things.

And while it's fine that you may not like the NXE interface, you can't deny that it's just better overall.  It's cleaner and better organized and even allows you to use the old blades if you so wish.  You don't have to an M$ lover lover to appreciate that it is an improvement.  I'm not saying you have to like it, I'm just saying that it isn't hard to recognize it's an improvement.

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NOTE: I'm not compating Home to NXE here, I'm comparing NXE to the previous blades.  I have absolutely no intention of opening the Home VS. NXE can of worms.