--OkeyDokey-- on 14 December 2008
| The_vagabond7 said: Yes, we get it. It's not a "game" but it fails even in what it tries to do is the problem. Everything they've done with it has been a terrible idea. From the waiting lines to play simple flash games, to the unnecessary microtransactions (they should've just put out a donation box, that's what the microtransactions are), to the terrible movie theater that only shows old grainy previews that you can't select. And saying "It's all about the community, and only the community" is dumb. If that's the case then I can take ten minutes to go register a message board somewhere and it will have equal potential to home. It will all be about the community. Sony took years to do that, and made something far worse. You know what the purpose of home is? The purpose of home is so Sony can go to some company and say "look, we have 15 million people that use HOME (or at least have DLed the application), that's a very sizable captive audience!" and then hope that somebody hands them a sack of money to put a billboard in there somewhere. That is the purpose of home. And it is pathetically transparent. |
About microtransactions and advertising - how else do you expect them to make money off of a free application?
And those issues you mentioned with waiting in line and the movie theatre can (and most likely will) be fixed in a small patch. This was never gonna be the best thing ever right off the bat. Just looking at the clothing options you can tell that it's incomplete at this stage.
