EvaUnit02 on 14/12/2008 at 08:37
Quote Posted by dethtoll
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http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/12/12/) Seems Tycho was pretty harsh on it. My favourite line is: "There are things about Home that are simply beyond my understanding. Chief among these bizarre maneuvers is the idea that, when manufacturing their flimsy dystopia, they actually
ported the pernicious notion of scarcity from our world into their digital one. This is like having the ability to shape being from
non-being at the subatomic level, and the first thing you decide to make is AIDS."
You get what you pay for.
Too bad that there'll never be anything as epic as the Patriotic Nigra raids. Second Life griefing is the way it is because the client software is open source.
icemann on 15/12/2008 at 04:34
Second Life is griefing on a grand scale. I hear things about that regulary due to the mmo report (news site on all mmo`s). Lots of "lovely" things going on in that game.
Hidden_7 on 15/12/2008 at 09:58
Installed it, played around for five minutes, uninstalled it. I'm sure there's someone this sort of thing appeals to, but it's not me, and if it were, I doubt I'd want to be using it on my PS3, rather than my PC.
Talgor on 16/12/2008 at 10:40
Quote Posted by dethtoll
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http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/12/12/) Seems Tycho was pretty harsh on it. My favourite line is: "There are things about Home that are simply beyond my understanding. Chief among these bizarre maneuvers is the idea that, when manufacturing their flimsy dystopia, they actually
ported the pernicious notion of scarcity from our world into their digital one."
I was suprised that the PA guys didn't get it. Of *course* you make entertainment like that scarce. That's how you sell those same arcade cabinets to people for placement in their own homes within Home. To give you the convenience of not having to wait for it.
It's quite simple, really, just view everything in Home from the point of Sony making money, and it all makes perfect sense. ;)
CCCToad on 16/12/2008 at 15:50
which makes Tycho even more right:
"This is what happens when you let your marketing department make a game".
Home is little more than an excuse to nickel and dime everyone to death, but one thats going to fail horribly because Home isn't going to keep people interested long enough for anyone to care about buying new clothes or furniture for home.
EvaUnit02 on 16/12/2008 at 17:34
Quote Posted by CCCToad
Home is little more than an excuse to nickel and dime everyone to death, but one thats going to fail horribly because Home isn't going to keep people interested long enough for anyone to care about buying new clothes or furniture for home.
On the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if clothing and other customisation packs for 360 Avatars are a roaring success.
