Playstation Home Exclusive Invitation
 

Anyone else get an email from Playstation last night with an 'exclusive' invite code to download Home?

Email is below:

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No I didn't get one.

Did you try it ? is it it actually any good?

There will be an open beta before the end of the year anyway so don't mind too much if I don't get on the closed beta.

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Got it as I was going to bed last night, so haven't had a look. Will have a look when I get home and let you all know.

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Yep I posted asking in the PS store update thread. There was around 500,000 codes sent lastnight from 5pm until late in the morning.

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Must have been a completely random selection.

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It was announced a couple days back. They were going to send them monday and there email filter took it as spam so most failed to get through. They resent them lastnight with thursdays planned invites. It was around 500,00 invites I believe.

Its to stress test the servers. Open beta for everyone is just a couple weeks off now to.

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It does also say you aren't supposed to discuss it with anyone outside of Home or the Home forums ;)

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But I did get one :D

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Were only saying if we have it or not. supposidly the NDA has been lifted anyway. Plus it shows up on your PSN name lol. Either way nothing being said apart from confirmation of having it.

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Had it for a few days. Pretty boring at the moment, since there's nothing really available.

But I like what I've seen, and the potential is huge!

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So what does everyone think? Personally, pretty, but bland. Glorified chat room with money-making possibilities for Sony as people fork out money for furniture & appartments in a virtual world. Nothing in the shops at the moment, which is disappointing. Maybe they should have given us all x amount of points or whatever and let us buy some things. 1 good thing is the echochrome game in the bowling alley. Ok, that's my hour on the PS3 for the next 3 months! :)

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The thing is at the moment its easy to become bored. Its not so bad if you have your friends on and I believe its really good for getting groups together and launching games. Not Home game PS3 games.

It is only small at the minute and even then alot of the features are not yet being used but I think it has massive potential especially with the club's that you can join of your favorite games etc etc.

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I've had it since Saturday.


Found it very boring so far, & rather lifeless & pointless.

There simply isn't enough to do. All a bit "meh" at the moment.

While I understand that it's just a Beta, & there is certainly potential for it to be a whole lot more, I really don't get why it has taken them so long to come up with this...


Still...Open Beta by the end of the year, plus allegedly a "big update" within a week or so...

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I just think that even when they've put things in the shops and added more arcade games and some movies, it's just going to be something that people skip, unless they want to chat with friends. It's just a huge amount of effort to create this 'thing' that everyone will tire of in a week or two.

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So how do you explain Second Life? ;)

Personally I agree with you. Why do I want to sit online pretending to be at bar/cinema/bowling alley

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What people seem to be missing is it will be used to create groups and launch games with friends all from the same place. You can join clubs for your favorite games and I would expect with this you can run compertitions and challenges with friends and other fans of the games etc etc

These are all things that will help it. At the moment is very basic as its only a Stress Test. The clubs etc etc are what I'm looking forward to. If its done right it could be great.

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But what is wrong with doing it the Xbox way through a menu system, without all the shops/apartments/bowling alleys etc. Compared with this, the new Xbox menu system is fantastic. Looks nice and is straight to the point. If people want to play sims or second life, let them buy those games.

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Yeah, and I can imagine the cries from the 360 fanboys if Sony copied Microsoft! The NXE is just a rip of the best bits of XMB and Wii interfaces anyway, so to copy it would essentially be a 3rd-hand interface.

You can already have chats through XMB anyway. This is just a more interactive way of meeting up. The 'problem' with menu systems etc. is that it's a bit last-gen.

Besides, just as 360 users can switch back to the old 'blade' system, PS3 users can stick to XMB chats.

People seem to be looking at Home as something that's being forced on to PS3 users, when it's not. It's entirely optional. If it doesn't interest you, you simply don't download it. The fact that it's free only adds value to the PS3 system as a whole, for those who choose to make use of it. There are those who won't bother, and there are those - as has been said - who will embrace it eagerly, just as with Second Life.

Plus, when Home is in full swing, Sony, game devs and publishers will be able to offer a lot more than they ever could through a simple menu system, through the Game Spaces.

Love it or hate it, at least Sony are willing to try something new.

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Heh, I'd love it if they copied MS! ;) :)


I'd find cross-game chat, cross-game invites, & an NXE-style Party system very handy if Sony did it.



Still, although rather dull & lifeless at the moment, Home does have a lot of potential. The clubs & the game launching could be good, at least.

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No we cant :erm:

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For any1 intrested Home was updated today and 3 shops now have stuff for sale. Its all free at the minute. 1 shop has some new clothing another has a new Estate you can buy - A Summer Home and the 3rd shop has furniture you can buy.

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I bought it all... may as well, as it all costs £0.00 ;) :)


Decorated my new summer home with some sofas & stuff, but then got bored again lol.

Nice to have a bit more content at least.

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Lol yeah I know what you mean. Think it will be better once Stuff opens and maybe you could by pool tables and Stuff as the wooden floor part of the Summer home looks perfect for this. No more waiting to get a game just invite friends over :)

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Sometime tomorrow Home will enter Open Beta and will be avalible to anyone who owns a PS3. For those who already have it there will be a patch to update Home to 1.03 but this is just for getting open Beta ready there will be no changes.

A couple days after Open Beta the The Red Bull Air Race will also be released in Home :) and from then on Home will continue to grow with regular updates and new game spaces being made avalible. This is only the Start :)

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Some of the pro's and con's of Playstation Home and what is to be expected from Aunty here:- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7777122.stm


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Managed to get it installed after 9pm last night when they fixed the download servers but I tried for twenty mins to actually connect to Home and it kept timing out. I know plenty of other people found this as well.

Seems Sony didn't get their servers in order or they couldn't cope with so many people connecting at the same time.

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I only used it a couple of times on the closed beta test, but it took quite a while then to do some things. There were loading delays when you walk into buildings, start a movie etc.

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TBH its nothing really special at the moment with so little in it but it does have great potential imho. Will be intresting to see what the clubs are like to.

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The red bull area was finally released today. The area is mostly boring but the game is awesome. Its good for a little while trying to get the best time possible. I think they've done a good job on this part.

Also in the news was that EA are building a sports area to launch there games from and with leaderboards and trophy boards etc etc. Sound's promising. Hope theres some mini-games in the area to.

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ive still not had a message of them like that yet must be just a number of people

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What do you mean ? you dont need it anymore Home Beta is avalible to everyone who has a PS3.

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yer i know i thought the message was something else did't read it all my fault

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I thought this was just the US store? :confused:
HAvent tried it yet but will give it a go tonight.

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Nope the red bull area is for us and its out now. The area itselfs is s bit borning but I do beleive the mini flying game is alot of fun even if just for a little while.

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Its been totaly over shadowed now by another press release that is from that big company people hate. but they still buy their games again and again.

FiFA
Tigerwoods
NFS
Burnout

EA
show Red Bull how to build a HOME add on. Red Bull say their island will get bigger over time....

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I have to say from what I've seen in a trailer for EA's sports Home arena its looking good. Poker and Go-kart racing :)

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Poker!! Cool look forward to that!!! :D

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Me 2. Look forward to having a game with you stone :)

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No worries mate ;) just send an invite when its up and running!!

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If you want a PS3 friendly version of EAs walk though try

http://blip.tv/file/get/GraphiteGB-EASpace265.mp4 just click it in the PS3 browser.