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[nx13]

I know this is a vague vague question, but like, what do you do?

I know you walk around, play bowling and talk to 12 year old boys dressed as girls, but apart from all that loveliness, what else is there to it? Or is that it?

Cause when I went on, everything was like " pay £5 to play a minigame" etc etc.

[claremac90]

You've described Home pretty well there . Just meet some nice people and have a chat every now and again thats how i use Home . 

[l0c0r0c0edy]

ooh umm well try out this link: http://tinyurl.com/bpn4ef5

[EdwCarnby]

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nx13 wrote:

I know this is a vague vague question, but like, what do you do?

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I tend to run around in stupid clothes, taking photos of girls in public spaces.

Oh, and occasionally I use Home as well.

[claremac90]

Lol@ED

[Furys-embrace]

Home used to be a place to meet fellow gamers and talk about games. Need a RE5 co op partner? Find one on home, probably in the RE5 space dressed as Chris or Sheva. Wanna put a team together for a battle on Street fighter 4? Go to the dedicated space and start a convo with that dude dressed as Ken then. 

Thats what home was originally made for, a gamer social application designed for networking. Then GREED set in on the part of Sony and some of the first party publishers when it was realised that true gamers would rather spend money on games than virtual dolls houses, clothes and to play shoddy mini games. Sadly game related content has been in steady decline and home these days attracts the sort of person who would rather make their avatar look like something from an essex night club and talk about anything BUT gaming while adopting the attitude that playstation home is a virtual meat market. These types of people simply must have the latest crap from drey or bilabong and are no doubt nice little money spinners for sony and their publishers. So I guess the point of home now is to spend money and pose while discussing mundane rubbish, 'beefin' people for not wearing the latest virtual clothing and to hook up with an avatar of the opposite sex that is 9 times out of 10 made by someone who IS the same sex as you. 

[Guedes747]

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Furys-embrace escreveu:

So I guess the point of home now is to spend money and pose while discussing mundane rubbish, 'beefin' people for not wearing the latest virtual clothing and to hook up with an avatar of the opposite sex that is 9 times out of 10 made by someone who IS the same sex as you. 

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I couldn't have said it better myself Fury It's a shame Home's potential being used for other purposes than it was meant to be in the first place. Also OP, I love your avatars and signature 

[EdwCarnby]

Nothing wrong with having a bit of fun on Home, Fury it's best to dance around the politics in a giant headdress though.

[gnu247]

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Furys-embrace wrote:

Home used to be a place to meet fellow gamers and talk about games. Need a RE5 co op partner? Find one on home, probably in the RE5 space dressed as Chris or Sheva. Wanna put a team together for a battle on Street fighter 4? Go to the dedicated space and start a convo with that dude dressed as Ken then. 

Thats what home was originally made for, a gamer social application designed for networking. Then GREED set in on the part of Sony and some of the first party publishers when it was realised that true gamers would rather spend money on games than virtual dolls houses, clothes and to play shoddy mini games. Sadly game related content has been in steady decline and home these days attracts the sort of person who would rather make their avatar look like something from an essex night club and talk about anything BUT gaming while adopting the attitude that playstation home is a virtual meat market. These types of people simply must have the latest crap from drey or bilabong and are no doubt nice little money spinners for sony and their publishers. So I guess the point of home now is to spend money and pose while discussing mundane rubbish, 'beefin' people for not wearing the latest virtual clothing and to hook up with an avatar of the opposite sex that is 9 times out of 10 made by someone who IS the same sex as you. 

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I'm liking fury more and more these days

[EdwCarnby]

I agree with a lot of those viewpoints Fury has, but it would be naive to think the microtransaction culture wasn't planned from the very beginning. They took a virtual world platform for Home, and virtual worlds tend to thrive because of microtransactions and not subscriptions.