Barajas_201
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I remember playing chess in the mall... good times, good times.
Not! I regret wasting my money on that Boba Fett costume.
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PlayStation Home Shuts Down in 7 Days (March 31, 2015)
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I also loved being Robbie the Rabbit:
This deeply disturbs me.
PeakPointMatrix
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Nerdkiller
Membeur
Remember when Sony Japan tried to make their own social avatar equivalent dubbed Room for the PSP? I wonder what became of that.
Fixed2BeBroken
Member
it was fun doing the MC hammer dance in front of people or doing the running man.....like seriously...I dont know why it was funny. well i guess it was funny cause of the way people would react.
like people really had a issue with a virtual character doing the running man in front of their virtual character
Fixed2BeBroken
Member
So what happens to all the people who spent real money on all the virtual items for their avatar? seemed like quite a few people spent alot cause the few times i went on with my vanilla nothing guy....i saw people decked out in shit.
stargateheaven
Member
whats the betting people will complain that their virtual items they paid for are gone now?
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
I actually won a free digital copy of Warhawk in February of 2009 by dressing in all black and pretending to be a ninja for some weird event. Thats all I used Home for, and having done that a month after getting my PS3 I'd say it brought me joy. Warhawk was awesome.
RadioHeadAche
Member
I'll take that as a compliment.
R_thanatos
Member
Spent 1 year on HOME , Xi was a fun activity and there was nice moments overall . The fun of looking for a free spot in order to play poker..
The incredible theater load times.
Overall it was fun experience.
This Christmas event not being taken down is kinda sad. That's the last one (new one, in fact) that the Home team did before all updates to the service ended in Janurary.
Probably the XMB menu-like change for navigation. Or the auto-boot into a Central Plaza that isn't Central Plaza but a ton of slow-loading shop fronts mall "central plaza."
Quickly died before it even got out of the "alpha test" phase. Mostly because barely anyone was putting their PSP online and mostly because it was pretty redundant (why have a Home "clone" that doesn't do everything Home did).
Peakpointmatrix said:
Probably the XMB menu-like change for navigation. Or the auto-boot into a Central Plaza that isn't Central Plaza but a ton of slow-loading shop fronts mall "central plaza."
Quickly died before it even got out of the "alpha test" phase. Mostly because barely anyone was putting their PSP online and mostly because it was pretty redundant (why have a Home "clone" that doesn't do everything Home did).
Didn't Sony waste many a minutes droning on about PSH during their big E3 presentations in the past? x.x Never used it myself but did notice its absence from my PS3s menu as of late! A chatroom or forum or whatevers only as good as the people using it an going by impressions this one had lotsa bad apples? Didn't miss out on much then but still another nail in the coffin of last gen.
R.I.P.
Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection
PSP PS Store access
Club Nintendo
PS Home
R.I.P.
Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection
PSP PS Store access
Club Nintendo
PS Home
As someone who got a PS3 last year, I STILL have no idea what the he'll it was
xKilltheMx
Member
I played DDR on Home a couple days ago actually, it was pretty fun lol.
I'm really going to miss Home, it's a lot of fun with other people. (imo)
Agreed. Had a blast with it.
This man fucking knows. Chain Swing was my shit. We all fucking LIVED at that jukebox. There was even a GAF home club.
R_thanatos
Member
Thinking about it the BUzz area with all the quizzes is probably the zone/event i liked the most .
Whaaat?! I loved Home! I owned my PS3 for a while before jumping into the app. My first experience was pretty drab, but I returned a year or two later and thought it was amazing.
I loved searching for glitches. There was actually this big glitch in the City Space that a few people liked to abuse. You would go to this metal barricade off to the left side of the music stage, once there, performing the running man a certain way alongside the fence will enable you to cross over to the other side.
What I loved about it, was that after some trial and error you would be able to make it to this space on the side of this building you would need to pass through first.
This space was basically a long narrow walkway that went along the east side of the City Space. It sat right atop the river and the skyline from an adjacent city was blatantly visible from this area as well.
Some dude and I had discovered this area after learning what part of the ground beyond the metal barricade remained solid and which parts had dropped you into an endless free fall. Once we reached this "hidden" area, we sat down and just spoke about so much shit while overlooking the river/skyline. I really felt like the two of us shared a moment, especially since we started as strangers first.
He later introduced me to his female avatar friend who had invited us over to her mansion where she also kept a pet tiger...
I'm going to miss PSHome. I stopped playing after I got some new games and I guess the interest died out. It didn't feel the same once I tried getting back into it for some reason, but I was honestly addicted for a short period of time when I did play; a few of the mini games were amazing as well, like the Bomberman one, or that space shooter...
Man, I'm getting nostalgic. There were people who were genuinely trying to connect with others through this, my being one of them.
I hope there's something that resembles this on the PS4. It always felt as if it was being held back by the hardware, especially once they continued expanding the PSHome world.
It's unfortunate that many of you couldn't share the same experiences!
I loved searching for glitches. There was actually this big glitch in the City Space that a few people liked to abuse. You would go to this metal barricade off to the left side of the music stage, once there, performing the running man a certain way alongside the fence will enable you to cross over to the other side.
What I loved about it, was that after some trial and error you would be able to make it to this space on the side of this building you would need to pass through first.
This space was basically a long narrow walkway that went along the east side of the City Space. It sat right atop the river and the skyline from an adjacent city was blatantly visible from this area as well.
Some dude and I had discovered this area after learning what part of the ground beyond the metal barricade remained solid and which parts had dropped you into an endless free fall. Once we reached this "hidden" area, we sat down and just spoke about so much shit while overlooking the river/skyline. I really felt like the two of us shared a moment, especially since we started as strangers first.
He later introduced me to his female avatar friend who had invited us over to her mansion where she also kept a pet tiger...
I'm going to miss PSHome. I stopped playing after I got some new games and I guess the interest died out. It didn't feel the same once I tried getting back into it for some reason, but I was honestly addicted for a short period of time when I did play; a few of the mini games were amazing as well, like the Bomberman one, or that space shooter...
Man, I'm getting nostalgic. There were people who were genuinely trying to connect with others through this, my being one of them.
I hope there's something that resembles this on the PS4. It always felt as if it was being held back by the hardware, especially once they continued expanding the PSHome world.
It's unfortunate that many of you couldn't share the same experiences!
RadioHeadAche
Member
What time do the servers close tomorrow?
thekiddfran
Member
Odd that they are shutting this down.
It was easy money for them and there always seemed to be people in.
so much for LBP hub too eh?
It was easy money for them and there always seemed to be people in.
so much for LBP hub too eh?
I remember downloading Home on my dad's PS3 the first day you could get it, and kinda running around and messing with furniture. I was surprised that it didn't end up being an optional variation of the system interface when PS4 came out. There are probably people who wouldn't mind walking their character to the video section or to the PS store or whatever, at least once in awhile.
Home was interesting as an idea, if nothing else.
Home was interesting as an idea, if nothing else.
Same story here. That LBP + Home presentation was the first time I really felt games were starting to diverge technologically from the previous generation.
I used to lurk the PS Home forums every day hoping to get an invite or some news, and then when it finally released... it sucked.
To this day, I think that if they had been able to mitigate the loading times somehow, it would have been something really special.
br0ken_shad0w
Member
The technical issues is really my biggest gripe with it. No one wants to wait for it to constantly load for every little action you do. I went back to complete the remaining trophies and the constant loading and buffering was getting on my nerves.
eh.....a lot of MVP's I know lived in that game, lot of great memories that they enjoyed. It was a really cool concept just terribly executed and supported. The movie theaters with E3 events was cool.
Definitely, DEFINITELY, check out the sick David Guetta club. I also highly recommend the Harry Potter train thing, there was quite a party there as well. Managed to separate at least one pair of virtual lovebirds in the making with my hijinks.
I got like 4 or 5 trophies just for signing in and creating a character (thought I had created a character once, wonder where he had disappeared?). Even the character creation was completely broken.
I got like 4 or 5 trophies just for signing in and creating a character (thought I had created a character once, wonder where he had disappeared?). Even the character creation was completely broken.
The Last Wizard
Member
Man I had a lot of good times on home, glad I got to experience it in its prime.
I had fun poking around the Harry Potter area/Diagon Alley.
Yeah, that's all I got. :/
NightShift
Member
Well shit, I saw this thread far too late. Can anyone confirm if it is down in Australia already?
Hidden One
Member
I remember buying that Assassins Creed 2 outfit for my avatar. Good times good times.
Pankratous
Member
What are the chances they can use the resources this shit was hogging to make some extra (virtual if necessary) RAM to make the store on PS3 not run like absolute shit?
Exact same. I loved the idea of it, but the execution was eh. Gotta admit that watching Silent Hill in the theater was cool, but Crackle sucks, but it was still cool.