Well I got "Home", and WOW

[Comrade Tovya]

drunken0taku said:

Comrade Tovya said:

drunken0taku said:
i never stated YOU said that in my reply so maybe you didn't read what i wrote. not that it matters, you obviously have your mind made up on the subject. just to let you know this isn't the only gaming forum on the interwebs so don't act like i don't hear the same ish everywhere else i go. your condescending attitude is not a forceful argument in itself. carry on.

 

Huh?

Like I said, Sony was the one touting PlayStation(R)Home as one of the big reasons why the PS3 was superior, and despite their bragging, it took them nearly two years AFTER BRAGGING to get a half-ass BETA released.  Yes, what I said is a fact... it's half-ass and incomplete.

It doesn't mean that HOME won't be great someday, it very well could be... but it's not great right now.

When we discuss this subject in THIS forum, I usually tell Sony Fanboys that while I do like my PS3, I still prefer my 360 because of XBOX Live, and those people tell me, "Hey man, just wait 'til they release HOME man, you ain't seen nothing yet".

I have rode on the fence for a long time, because Sony and their wonderful fanbase has been telling me (no, shoving down my throat) the idea that HOME will be the LIVE killer.  So, why after nearly two years am I still only getting a crap-BETA version if it is so great?  That's all I am asking.

I swear that Sony's nickname should be the "someday" company.  The PS3 will sell big "someday" (read: 10-year plan here), the PSN will be a great service "someday"... That's all that Sony is this generation, a company that continues to advertise what they will be, and conveniently ignore the here and now.

Sweet my office firewall isn't blocking this site! While, I agree with the fact that it is a very barebones rather underwhelming launch for Sony.  I don't get the utter resentment by alot of people for this application. To tell you the truth I was rather non-plussed by it myself, but I am still going to support it in hopes it will get better as there is more corporate support and user revenue.  The whole ranting and raving about Home just smacks of spoiled, jaded gamer to me.  I guess I wasn't expecting much from the open beta since I read enough about it before hand (not implying you didn't) to know it was going to be rather weak.  I guess I expected little and wasn't that shocked and disappointed when I finally installed it on Thursday and checked it out with a friend online.  Meh, I know that some people were expected some kind of second coming but I think that those people were ill-informed and unrealistic.    

 

 

Right... like I said, it may be great one day, but thus far I think Sony just layed another egg by releasing a BETA for a product that is not even good enough to call "incomplete".

I would have never said two words about the product, but Sony is the one who has been hyping this thing... not me.

They told me at E3 (just shy of two years ago) that HOME would be the great community experience that made the Sony PSN the console community to beat.  That sounds wonderful, but two years of promises is just a little ridiculous.  At the rate they are going, this community is going to roll into their "10-year plan" like every other aspect of this console.

Why, when Sony was so friggin' awesome last generation, can they not seem to get anything right or on-time this generation?   All they do is talk about the "future" of the PS3, and yet this "future" never seems to arrive... they always push it off to a later date.  A good example is the latest watered-down release of Gran Turismo.  Why even release it at all if it isn't really a completed product?  The next GT is supposedly going to be what GT Prologue wasn't, so why didn't they just wait then?

The point is, as a PS3 owner, I get tired of always being told by a company that I have dropped un-godly amounts of money into that "someday" they'll justify my purchase of their console with these great "future" features that never arrive (or if they do, they are only half-ass).  When does that day arrive?  At the rate they are going, they won't hit their goals until I buy my Wii-HD and XBOX 720, at which point it will be too late anyway.