Sony Home - The official thread*

Should be 1.22 then. Yes, should not have crashed. Did you try again ? I remember the first time I entered the R2 space after 1.21, I crashed too. Was able to login a second time.
 
And ghostbusters customes, more Street Fighter costumes, and some additional 'designer' clothing.
Very curious about the Buzz space, and the picture frame ... will check Gaf on how much it costs. ;) Found it, $3 ... now to know whether or not you can hang up as many frames as you like, just as you can use as many furniture and other objects as you like. If so, then $3 is worth it for me. Though the picture frames are apparently not up in Europe yet.

Also pictures suggest that Infamous, Socom and Ghostbusters spaces are coming soon or at least had a specific E3 demo.
 
Yes, I can't wait to check out the Buzz space. Unfortunately, I have never played Buzz so this is a good chance for that. I may even submit my own quizzes.

Also, I think I have $3 in my account. I may spring for the frames.
 
Also it seems that Killzone support for Home should be coming soon. At the end of the blog post for the 1.27 patch update:

"So thanks for having me and I hope you enjoy this latest update. We’ll be back soon with some news on Home."

EDIT: frame in Home, some complaints about the quality of the images being low. (Looks good enough to me personally)
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Rumor: Gran Turismo Home Space coming according to this site: http://www.guerillaplay.com/blog/?p=2369

From what I hear the home space is gonna have a similar feature as EA’s mini race car game. A cool feature for any GT5 racing fan.

This home space will also have some sort of connection with the game as far as whatever achievement you do in the game will have an effect in the home space. Lets say you purchase items in the game like a corvette or a viper, then you go into home and you receive a statue of a corvette or a viper that you put in you home apartment for decoration and the same thing in home. You purchase a clothing article or something in home and you receive something in the game.
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More virtual merchandizing in Home. This time, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen:
http://www.thetransformers.net/transformers-revenge-of-the-fallen-enterting-playstation-home/

I believe the event is for SCEE only.

Starting today, Home residents can begin the quest by finding the Transformers theatrical poster, placed at a few points throughout the public spaces in Home. Another will succeed this poster and targeting it will launch the first in a series of games that will be released over the coming days and weeks.
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More at the link. It's supposed to be some virtual item treasure hunting.
 
Picture Frame

I logged into my EU home, couldn´t find the picture frame. Of to the USA and behold there it was along with a shitload of spaces. As far as i could tell there weren´t any of spaces that belonged to games that isn´t out in EU yet.

Ohh and the Picture frame froze Home when i wanted to browse, a first time for me, maybe 4000 pictures is to much for it.

And kind a annoying that i had to pay for it, i consider everything they demoed back then something that should be free.
 
SCEE Home improvements on June 18th: http://community.eu.playstation.com...ssage?board.id=b_EN_PS3_Home&thread.id=189274

With the recent introduction of the the European Blog some announcements will be moving from the forums to the blog, and next week is no exception. There will be a new space, and you'll be able to read all about it on the blog next week.

We will also see the arrival of a new apartment. The City Penthouse will be available from Estates in the Shopping Centre and its furniture will be available upstairs from the furniture store.

We're making a small text change to the purchasing legalese for Clubs, in that the date of the 31st March 2009 is changing to 31st December 2009. This should be welcome news to existing and prospective Club owners and what it actually means is we are no longer intending to charge a regular fee for clubs until next year. We listened to the feedback and further features and services will be added to clubs before a regular payment is asked for.

A "Wheres Wally" style event will start on the 18th and will continue for a couple of weeks. Every night from 7-9pm UK time someone will be somewhere in Home. Find them, type a particular phrase and win something very very...... weird.
Details on this in the blog next week as well.

The Presentation Podium has served its purpose and we've noted the feedback about the video and sound. Our goal for events like E3 is live video feeds and whilst this will take some time to achieve we learnt some lessons from this experiement. Hope you enjoyed it.

And finally there is also an update to the EA Sports Complex as well. Whilst the golf game is worked on EA are removing the "coming soon" part of it from the complex and replacing it with two more 4-seater Racing games, giving a total of 16 seats. They are also adding female rewards for Poker, yes, the Bracelets have arrived girls. With a minor change to fix a screen issue upstairs you will need to download both spaces again.

Thats the overall look at the week ahead. Dont forget, the Transformers Treasure Hunt continues as well and you might notice the puzzles getting a little harder.
This afternoon we'll be meeting up with EssexJames and his team for the 3rd SCEE Community Q&A and James will be presenting the results to you soon.
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The Home team talks about their progress:
http://www.industrygamers.com/news/sony-playstation-home-can-be-a-big-box-shifter-for-ps3/

"It's very close [to the original vision of the game]," noted Edwards. "The original vision hasn't really changed; it's an online social gaming platform, for gamers."

Legal issues have been serious ones as far as expanding IP, detailed Edwards, with certain difficulties coming about in users uploading their own content in a web 2.0 sort of sense. He did add to "watch this space" with regards to those sorts of capabilities, however.
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This I can understand. We had to spin-off our community team to keep the the legal stuff separate. Once the legal counsels see the outfit as a separate team, they turned around and suggested user-driven features instead of trying to block us from doing user generated services (wtf).

The demographics of Home users are unsurprisingly not too different from the regular PS3 audience, Buser informed us. That said, Buser did comment that the population of girls are "very active" inside Home. He noted that while an FPS title may not need a balance of male and female models and clothing, it was a "guiding principal" in Home.
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This is quite true as well. The female visitors are rather open, friendly and active. Some have obviously been harassed but generally speaking, they can hold their own.

"This will be another milestone for us," commented Buser. "That will probably be the time when you'll start to see Sony stretch its wings and say 'Ok, now there's enough stuff in here that, I don't care who you are and what you're into, you're going to find your space, where you want to hang out'... that'll be the time when you'll start to see it marketed big."
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...but you're very late.

"We need to get to the point, and we've very close, where we stop talking about potential and start talking about how Home is Home and people are no longer saying 'Home is going to be really good' and instead say 'Home is really good' and I think at that point, that's when you're in a situation where we can start doing those sorts of pushes and bringing everybody into Home," added Edwards.
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IndustryGamers asked what was next for Home, and Edwards responded frankly that he did not know. "The thing that has amazed me most about Home is what people will create," stated Edwards, mentioning how impressed he and his team were with the Red Bull Air Race space.
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Gah... did not know what's next ? Usability is still a concern.

And the Home Space model is broken. In the virtual world, you can but you don't need to go to a "physical" store to buy stuff, you don't have to go near an object to use it. In fact, picking out objects in Home is an unnecessarily difficult chore. You/we should do away with waiting for game and instead spawn a new session automatically. We should be able to access interesting highlights/features of any space quickly, even while waiting for it to be loaded, etc.

On a computer, the desktop wallpaper doesn't prevent me from launching any app. The Home spaces are essentially just 3D wallpapers. The meat is the application and mini-games and they should not be tied to the fake spaces. That's why making the items re-deployable to my own apartment and clubhouse is important. It simplifies and condenses the experiences (Cut the travelling time out. Use "wipe/transition" effects where appropriate). We can't platform in Home like inFamous anyway.

You seem to be selling out the users by insisting we visit the Home spaces. The statistics for tracking home space visit can be changed to how often we use Insomniac's apps or Home items for decoration for example. Once you compromise on the user experiences, the community growth will be stunted. The 6.5 million downloads are just downloads.

Then add a quick load option (2D or 2.5D).

Sony is a humungous corporation, and we wondered what potential cross media promotion could be incorporated into Home. Buser pointed to a partnership with Sony Pictures, where they screened the first 10 minutes of a Blu-ray release and gave out a free in-game shirt. He called this "the beginning of the sort of Sony United initiatives that will occur inside PlayStation Home." Buser also noted that any third-party company can potentially be involved with Home, pointing to fashion company Diesel and furniture store Ligne Roset as brands that benefit from the association with Home.
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Please finish game launching for first parties first.
 
I'm absolutely disgusted that I spent $3 on a picture frame that I am not able to use in a Clubhouse.

Such a massive oversight.
 
Should yell in the official Home forum. I have a feeling they will attend to small requests like this. It's the larger requests that take them a l-o-n-g time to do. I was wondering why they restricted me to put up to 4 photo frames in my apartment. How many can you put in the large apartment (like Arwin's) ?
 
I don't think we have the picture frame yet in Europe so I can't check. But I somehow doubt that the amount of times you can use the frame depends on the apartment you use it in.
 
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