From the looks of it, seems to be a damn good update.

But still don't think I will use it any more then i have... last log in was checking out Red Bull.

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PlayStation Home patch 1.10 coming Thursday

by Andrew Yoon Feb 4th 2009

PlayStation Home will experience some down time starting at 3AM EST on Thursday, February 5th. Afterwards, patch 1.10 will be available for all users of Home. The patch will fix a number of bugs and promises to make the experience much more enjoyable. Avatar loading is promised to be faster, something we'd love to see in action. Here are the notes from the PlayStation Forums:

New features

• We have added a new "Remove Player" function that allows the creator to remove people from a Game Launching session. This is complemented by the Block Player function, accessible via the Safe Screen, which can be used to stop people rejoining.

Changes and Improvements

• The speed of the initial log-on process has been improved and a progress bar has been added to provide you with more information about what is happening.

• Items that you have already purchased will now be loaded when you first log-in, reducing the loading time when you enter stores in the Mall.

• Other players' avatars will now load faster when you enter a space.

Unfortunately nothing I care about, where the hell are the game launching Sony? Game spaces? SOCOM and R2 have HOME support on the back of the box? Really what the fuck?

• We have further improved the UI for a variety of systems including Game Launching, Clubhouses and the Store.

 Thats just too awesome right there....

Anyways looks pretty cool, not that I play home but that its getting support and obviously a few people are enjoying it.

This all sounds great to me.

I've actually been using Home pretty heavily the past two months since I always seem to meet interesting people wandering around in there in addition to all the players I've already added to my list.

I haven't been using game launching as it seems like few games if any use it and it's just as easy to load up the game from XMB once you've agreed to play with someone from inside Home.

But if they can make that process smoother, great.

Removal of more of the annoying glitches is also very welcome (disappearing furniture for one).

Faster load times should mean less time staring at ghosts.

I think some of the interesting features of Home will be announced at GDC, but still, a good update.

I haven't been in home, for couple months now. So eehhh.

I don't want to hear anyone's random conversations in public areas, any more than I want to hear them screaming idiotic things to the public forum a la XBL.

If I want to talk to someone via vox chat, I'll do it with an in game private phone call, or in a privately owned space.

Sounds good, but I won't begin to enjoy Home until three things happen:

1. Decrease load and download times, and make it so that I don't have to redownload stuff all the time!

2. Let me run in the water and go wander around harbor (this would be so awesome, lol).

3. Provide more content! More game spaces, developer spaces, improve game launching, etc.

1. This patch does this.

2. Might happen eventually.

3. Developers make the game spaces unless they ask Sony to do it. Red Bull asked Sony to make their space. EA is making their own. More will come but it is a matter of the developer or company adding to it.

EA's should be released in the coming month.