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The Diesel shop is cool, though 👍 Looking forward to seeing loads more new stuff as and when it comes.
some of the shops are still blank for me.....although i had to redownload all the areas again.
The Diesel shop is cool, though 👍 Looking forward to seeing loads more new stuff as and when it comes.
What the flying 🤬!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You don't want to know what has happened. ALL my T-shirts that I unlocked be it Namco or echochrome or Ice Breaker, are GONE. My pair of shorts, all my arcades, stools and trophys. WTF. They took sooooo many hours to unlock it is damn well not funny. What are you doing sony. In the meanwhile, you add absolutely ZILCH.
EDIT: Apparently if you lost namco stuff, play an arcade game from the XMB for a little while, quit and items will be back, im sure it is namco and im not sure about all the Ice Breaker and Echochrome. I havn't tried but it has been confirmed. Ted the Dog has also stated that we should not have lost our rewards and they are currently looking into it.
Easy there. I feel for you, but honestly, how many times has it been said in this and other threads... its a beta program, and these kinds of things happen all the time in beta. As several people have recommended, if these things are going to bother you... which clearly it sounds like it is, then you really shouldn't participate in beta programs, as you'll likely just keep getting workup.
Wait for the official release, and heck, maybe even a little longer. Otherwise, enjoy the things it does offer.. besides, let's also not forget, it's purely optional, and with the exception of some "luxury" virtual goods, its all free.
And I do understand you spent a lot of time playing those game... but they were meant to be entertaining... and free. That part wasn't taken away from you right? Besides, even if you don't want to play the games any more, who knows, maybe the items are only temporarily missing... or you can wait until the beta is over to earn the items when it is an officially released product.
At the very least you'll lower your blood pressure a tad.
Wait... so you blew up, screamed at Sony... said point blankly that as a matter of fact ALL your T-shirts that you unlocked be it Namco or echochrome or Ice Breaker, were GONE... but as it turns out you didn;t actually check to see if that was true first???
Imagine what you would have said or done if it did wipe out everything, including your avatars! Seriously, maybe Beta is not for you?
And everyone knows that things take a fraction of the time the second time you do it, so it's really not that big a deal.And I do understand you spent a lot of time playing those game... but they were meant to be entertaining... and free.
No wonder you guys (UK'ers) have to entertain yourselves. You don't have Saucer Pop, etc.? That's just ridiculous. Plain and simple. I'd be pissed if I were you, too.(for example, the absense of the Saucer Pop game, game spaces and voteable music jukebox in the Plaza).
I posted something along these lines at the EU forums, too. The criticism of Home so far is pretty harsh - I wonder if this has something to do with the fact that most people on PS3 are new to any form of beta trials, me included.As several people have recommended, if these things are going to bother you... which clearly it sounds like it is, then you really shouldn't participate in beta programs
I'm damn annoyed that we have had to redownload each space. Nothing has changed so I wonder why? I thought any media updates would be downloaded in the background and added to the 3GB reserved space for future use (as pointed out in the video with Home Director, Jack Buser in a video posted a few pages back), but even the videos and posters are the same in 1.04 (as they were in version 1.03), so why the download? I have a slow connection and those with a capped connection should be concerned also. Imagine needing to do this for every space and every update... I hope this isn't the case.
Redownloading is not a good option for me, I'll give it the benefit of the doubt and download all the things again and I'll just hope that I won't need to again. Either way, I'll be on for a while today. Atleast I'll hopefully have my chair back
Yay I lost everything I've won.........
Here we go again... Who's draining who's wallet... are you seriously blaming some company for giving you the OPTION to buy virtual things. If it bother's you, don't go in the stores (although then you would also miss out on all the free stuff in there as well).This is only a 'beta' and yet already they are looking to drain our pockets. It does not bode well for a full working release !
Unless you are into virtual real estate, interior decorating and virtual fashion, then EVERYTHING is currently free...
Besides all that, several clothes, furnishings, items, and personal space are already given to you for FREE.
- PSN = FREE
- Online Gaming = FREE
- Using Home = FREE
- Creating life-like avatars = FREE
- Multiple standard areas to explore and meet'n'greet = FREE
- Harbor Studio
- Central Plaza
- Bowling Alley / Game Space
- Home Theater
- Home Cafe / Night Club
- Multiple developer spaces to explore and meet'n'greet = FREE
- Far Cry 2
- Train Station
- Reuben's Office
- Uncharted
- Sully's Bar
- Multiple hidden spaces to unlock and explore = FREE
- Uncharted
- Smuggler's Den
- Arifact Room
- Film Room
- Call a friend on the Home Phone = FREE
- Invite friends to join you or you join them = FREE
- Joining Private Clubs = FREE
- Participate in developer meet and greets and Q&A sessions = FREE
- Watching exclusive trailers, BTS videos, interviews, etc = FREE
- Bowling = FREE
- Shoot Pool = FREE
- Play Darts = FREE
- Play Saucer Pops = FREE
- Play Chess = FREE
- Play Checkers = FREE
- Play Mancala = FREE
- Participate in organized and unorganized gaming tournaments = FREE
- Play arcade games = FREE
(and win special clothing, furnishings, and items as prizes) = FREE
- echochrome
- Ice Breaker
- Carriage Return
- Mercenary Madness
- Play Classic NAMCO arcade games = FREE
(and win special clothing, furnishings, and items as prizes - including your own arcade systems to place in your club and personal spaces) = FREE
- Pac-Man
- Dig-Dug
- Galaga
- Xevious
- Listening to music at the Listen@Home stage = FREE
- Dance (if that's your sorta thing) = FREE
And that's just the open beta... as if that wasn't enough, here are some other things that are said to be coming to Home:
- Red Bull Island Space
- including 3-D flight sim air race games
- Buzz! Space
- including the game "Buzz! Runaround", which supports up to 32 players
- MotorStorm 2 Space
- MotorKartStorm game
- Resistance 2 Space
- team-based minigame
- Warhawk Space
- SOCOM Space
- Killzone 2 Space
- Hall of Fame Space
- 3D Trophy Collections
- MotorStorm Premium Apartment
- Remote Controlled Model Boats, and Cars
- PSP-3000 Treasure Hunt
- Design Your Own T-shirt Contest
- MotorStorm VIP Event
- and certainly more as developers take advantage of Home's Development Kit, including Sega, Activision, Midway, Atari, Eidos, Ubisoft, EA Sports, Diesel, Audi, and more.
So unless you have a massive addiction to virtual items, and want a huge collection of clothing, furnishing, and real estate, and if your concern is cost, you have nothing at all to worry about as far as Home goes. 👍
I'm going on home now, i'm assuming all of you guys are all on home?
Home is not a game that you simply play off a disc or off your HDD. Any new content, no matter how small, or any chage in the software is going to require downloading... and in beta, expect a lot of changes.
However, even when there are no changes, when traveling through Home, remember, you are not alone, nor is there one server. The reason you don't see a million avatars running around in the same spaces is that there are multiple servers - and be grateful there are, becausse if you have a slow connection, imagine how long it would take to load that many people... if it were even possible.
Every time you change spaces you have to access that server. In addition, everytime you change spaces, you also have to download the information about all the other people who are in that space and on that server that you are now on.
Based on the speed of your own connection it may or may not take a while to do that... However, there will always be downloading and uploading (like when you change your avatar)... there is no way to avoid that without having a standalone version of Home disconnected from the internet for you to walk around all by yourself.
If you play one of the game you'll get all the stuff back just like the Namco stuff. Unless you really hate them that much...Same here. At least the Namco stuff can easily be regained by simply playing a Namco game from your XMB. It all comes back once you do. However, the Bowling Alley arcade stuff is gone forever. Never going to play them again.