iclim4 said:
yeah, i hope sony implements sprinting as an option. |
The problem is even with sprinting you're still physically moving the character from point A to B in a logically laid out world.
That means I could walk out my apartment door, select go to movie theater from some sort of quick travel menu, load the theater area (because it wouldn't be streamed at that point), walk from the beginning area to wherever I "buy" (whatever that may be) my tickets, browse through a list of movies, and then finally get to my movie.
If I have the urge to watch Pretty Pink Pony Adventures 7: The Pretty Pink Ponies Return To Whimsy Land, I don't want to go through all that hoopla, I just want to watch my movie.
Even my above example isn't even taking into account the crowded MMO effect. Anyone that plays any kind of MMO should know what this basic idea is. Any time there is a place that a lot of people go to, like an Auction House in WoW or FFXI, there is going to be a lot of people there. That means I'm going to have to take time to load all the avatars around me (slowing the receiving of information I want) and then I'm going to have to take more time just to load the movie menus. I'll also have to go through the trouble of just wading through large amounts of people which is just annoying.
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And on the topic of this being free, that's awesome and all but you really have to wonder what their goal with this is. They've invested A LOT of money into Home and it's going to cost A LOT of money for the upkeep since we have to assume that most PS3 users are going to use it (or at least they want to assumethat).
I don't know why they think this is going to be something that will actually attract a large amount of people to the console and I'm not sure where they think they're going to get their money from. About the only option I can think of is if advertisements are spammed EVERYWHERE.
