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Got in through my JP account - which forces me to play on US servers under my US account, rad.  :drill: :drill: :drill:

Gonna make Bat Country, anyone else in?

I'm in.  Make it happen.

I'm also in the Home beta, got my invite yesterday though so haven't jumpe in yet.  Will have to tonight, before we head off to cold-ass nebraska to visit wife's family.

But is it fun? Or cute?

The girl faces are ugly. The guys are cavemen. Someone tell me why Europe does - consistantly - either super shitty (Fable, Home, Witcher, etc) faces and such or super awesome ones (Heavenly Sword, the only example I can think of >_<).

It seems interesting. Particularly the tie-in to unlockables (I got into the Namco Home Arcade beta also).

It's not just Europe.  You may as well ask why Bethesda can't make a model that doesn't look like a fucking burn victim.

I got in about two weeks ago.  I don't see the point of Home.  Can someone explain what I'm missing?

I don't seem to have given my email address to the right person.  What are the chances I can get in if I make that JP account I have been putting off?

Have you played Fallout 3?  They finally fixed the Downe's Syndrome character model problem.

nope been busy with otherstuffbut it i good to hear then that fo3 models arent fugly.

Not really. They replaced downy with something entirely different. The women are almost passable but it's still a mess. They have the money to hire artists that could create stuff as good as Valve does, there's really no excuse. Maybe it's a byproduct of their engines being total shit, who knows. BETHESDA KNOWS. And maybe the phantom.

I actually just got in by being signed up for the Playstation Network.  no fancy JP account for me.

Got Bat Country created. Invites getting sent out. Also trying invites on non-HOME users to see what happens (Sorry Yegolev!)

I haven't used my PS3 in a bit, did you get an e-mail notification? I did sign up for it with the whole Theme thing.

Hook Happy_Hedonist up with an invite Schild. 


Yea, invites went out a couple days ago.  If you didn't get in you're not missing much at the moment.

I have a spare invite for euro beta. Who wants it?

That euro beta, if signed up on a euro account - but not launched - on a US PS3, can then switch over to your US account after downloading the beta and play on US servers. Just saying.

I would love it! My PS3 should be arriving today. What do I need to do?

o/

They've been sending out hundreds of thousands of invites, yet I still have no luck.  :oh_i_see:

I need your email apocrypha.

Actually, I found an invite in my spam folder while looking for something else.

Right now it appears to be pretty walled off to the Square Home. Seeing that there's a closed off area with escalators, there might be more. Hopefully.

Also, this'll be completely based on microtransactions...

I'm guessing a lot of games are going to include exclusive shit you can use in Home.

As for bat country: I'm game.  It's kind of a bummer how limited the clothing stuff is right now, though.  I want a monocle so much.

Most likely just the Sony developed/published games.

PM'd ya mate.

Pro-tip: Make a girl avatar and stand around in Square Home.

Creepy.

Ah, like the good old days of mudding.

Why would this be?

It definitely won't be if they make it a mandate like they just did with trophy support starting next year.

Sorted & installed, thanks Falconeer. I shall play with it when I get done playing with all the other awesome shit this console is throwing at me  :awesome_for_real:

Most developers won't add extra stuff in unless forced.  You can already see this in the lack of games that support trophies (until next year when they become mandatory).  Also, MS seems to persue extra content for multiplatform games a lot more aggressively than Sony does.

There's not much to play with, so far.
But I like it, as I like not stumbling when I walk or not running out of toilet paper when I need it.
It's ok. Let's see what they can do with it.

I agree completely, and I suppose I meant to ask why would Sony not mandate Home... uh, trophies?  MS mandated Achievements from the get-go, and I consider Sony not having Trophies ready at launch to be a big fail.  Patching sucks.  Not mandating these things except perhaps in Sony games would be dumb.

Trophies will be mandatory next year, but I haven't heard any word on whether or not this will include mandated support for them in Home.  I'm guessing probably not, mostly because Sony still seems unsure of when they're actually going to launch Home.  Well, that and the fact that they seem reluctant to make anything mandatory for developers (unlike MS, they don't require voice chat support for online games, even in their first party titles).  I'm sure Home trophies will be a requirement at some point, but I'd guess it won't be until some time after Home launches.

Trophies aside, pretty much all of the Home content they've shown off for games right now is for Sony exclusives (the Uncharted bar, the Warhawk war room, etc...).

man, i just want a fucking beard?  why can i only grow facial hair on my upper lip???  my face is soooo cold.  i needs me a beard.

I tried this today. Cute girlie avatar in short skirt. Stand still for 5 minutes. Marvel at male crowd gathering round me saying "Hi!" :uhrr:

Check the forums then at homebetatrial.com, to check how much these prepubescent kids complain about fake girls/women.

Really? Hahah ok I'm gonna start seriously fucking with some heads then  :drillf:

Open Beta for Home starts on Thursday.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/12/12/

One of the only fun things to do is to follow someone around and then when they turn around you dart behind them. That, and watch people cluster around the only female character in the area.

Home sounds like ass. Skip the BS and let me play games... :oh_i_see:

Hammer, I'm delighted that you decided to pop your head in on a thread about a project where you are the exact opposite audience. However, the "games are getting too easy and gamers are getting too stupid" coalition needs you over in the Wii: Console Depression thread.

I'm honestly surprised you like the home stuff Schild. It really just seems like a pointless way to waste time when you could just be using the system for any of the other cool and actually useful stuff. But really if dead behind the eyes avatars roaming around and chatting it up like it's 1995 is the new hip thing, by all means, eat that shit up.  :oh_i_see:

My Home experience:

Download client.

Boot client, get informed that I need to reserve 3 GB for Home data.

Attempt to sign in.

Repeat last step 10 times.

Get in, play around with zombie creator for 10 mins.  Register disappointment at the dearth of options.

Look at the shitty noob apartment and hope that there's stuff that I can get to make it less chintzy looking.  Make couch fort.

Exit to 'Plaza', where I'm immediately greeted by some guy shouting 'STOP GRABBING MY ASS!' to all and sundry around him over and over and pity the poor chick avatar running away from 10 followers.

Visit the 'Mall' where I hope to remedy the lack of clothing and furniture.  Finds that clothes are $.49 per piece and furniture starts at $.99 per piece.

PS Button, exit, then boot up LBP.

Why such fawning over females?  I really haven't seen it that bad since the mud days (where the smaller community would be happy to defend their female members from such annoyances).  Are PS3s only bought for horny fourteen year olds?

Rich spoiled horny fourteen year olds!

But... but this time you can SEE them!  They're g..gu...gu...gurrrrrrrrrlllllllllllllllssss.

Somebody give me a positive comment on Home, please.

Its pretty, and the streaming tech built into it is somewhat interesting.

Its the people that ruin it. That, and the voice chat....oh god the voice chat.

It uninstalls cleanly.

It's not on superior consoles like the Wii. :awesome_for_real:

I should have listened.  No, I had to try it myself.  It was almost hilarious, in a laugh-at-the-retards way.  Favorite moment was in the bowling alley:

dickbasket: u want 2 play bowling?
*short pause while I fumble around*
dickbasket: fu

Sony has just removed voice chat from Home.

I can only imagine why... probably too many "Hey I fucked your mom" and "hey are you really a girl? I'm going to hump you now!"

Oh, yeah.  There goes about 1/3 of the comedy.

Removed or changed it to an opt-in thing?

I don't see what's so bad about it.

This. If Nintendo had put out Home and made a little apartment for you to dress up and further interact with your Miis and you could just load it from the system, the press and public would be fucking fawning over it. It would sell even more systems. On the PS3 though? Confusion, chaos, and distress.

I think it's pretty tight. I've approximated my appearance closely too... Got red hair though. Look like the male version of the Heavenly Sword character. Heh. I'm digging Sully's Bar.

I'm not into socializing here no less than I am in other MMO type of environments, so I see no reason to let that bring me down anymore here than elsewhere. The software though is pretty cool. Hopefully I actually have more to do here than socialize. Just having more games and shit -- and ways to win things (as opposed to purchasing with real dollars) would entertain me.

What the hell was every one in there talking about door codes and all piling up on the doors at the back? Did i miss something when i ran away from the 20 or so VOIP users screaming about "WHATS DOOR KEY"?

Really, I'm quite surprised that not many of you are impressed by this. They've at least delivered on the underlying concept/what they advertised back in that vid awhile back. It works. I think it'll be cool once it's integrated with the rest of the PS3's shit.

I don't keep up with what they have planned, but they should install a Bravia and PS3 in everyone's house (duh). It'd be cool to have episodes of Qore (or hell, porn on your hard drive) streaming in there. More store integration as well. There should be streaming versions of every trailer and making of video in the store on here too.

[edit] BTW Schild, have you created an "F13" Club. Heh

I haven't installed the live version yet.

Heh, yea, $5 clubhouse. I'm in no rush.

Open beta's sure making a great impression in that they keep people cramped into the same few spaces. Apparently they've been gradually cutting out more and more stuff. I've been told there was a marina area with jet skis and shit like that.

Also, this thing does autosharding. Means if there's that much people in an area, surpassing the limit will create a new shard and log new folks into that one. So don't expect to meet friends in public areas again and again.

I'm dead set on buying a real life version of the emo cardigan I'm wearing in here.