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Help G4 Crash PlayStation Home Tonight!

December 16, 2008 in News comments 18

Tonight (December 16th, 2008), G4's Attack of the Show will be holding a live event from inside PlayStation Home. In a classic case of "let's see how much stress the servers can take", G4 has invited everyone with a PlayStation 3 and an internet connection to join them inside the PlayStation Home Mall at 7pm EST (4pm PST) to do one just thing: Dance.

Odds are if you have a PlayStation 3, you downloaded PlayStation Home. Odds also are that unless you are a complete bowling junkie such as myself, you probably find Home to be a damn boring waste of increasingly valuable hard drive space. However, we now have at least one reason to actually spend more than two attempts to actually sign into Home.
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  • 0
    Zero and X Dec 16, 08
    Lol, wow, thats pretty funny.
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    BlackLabel Dec 16, 08
    This really won't work lol, there are probably 3000 versions of the mall on the server so it doesn't overcrowd and lag. I mean this project will fail miserably.
    • 1
      redneonfish Dec 16, 08
      Add people to friendslist, and invite to your server. Hard to get alot of people there though.
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    FinalFantasyFanaticc Dec 16, 08
    If this works, i will seriously PMSL

    Goddamn stupid home
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    EOM Bassist Dec 16, 08
    Haha, go ed G4
    Best of luck with that anyway, i'll try and join in with the fun if I can
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    Mr 182 Dec 16, 08
    LOL, I'm definitely gonna do this. I hope it does crash too, just because - and I say this as a Sony fan - I really don't like home. Much like the article says, I find it pretty boring. I realize it's still a beta, but considering how most PS3's owners that would use home have downloaded it, It seems as if it's failing. Wasn't it designed as a social network kind of thing? Because everytime I've been on no one has attempted to socialize. Yeah people play pool and stuff, but I've yet to see people actually having conversations.
    • 1
      Gamesta100 Dec 17, 08
      Well you must have entered Home with a bunch of...uhm can't think of the word.

      I have made like 9 friends because of Home and I always see people conversing with each other.
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    Sayyed Dec 16, 08
    This is pretty funnny. I want to do this.
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    Krunal Dec 16, 08
    Would help if you could actually get onto Playstation Home. 99 times out of 100 it fails for me (i.e. it just gives me an error).
    • 0
      kik36 Dec 16, 08
      Same.....I've found that I'd rather be playing a game than waiting for home to finally let me in.
      • 1
        Capn Droid Dec 17, 08
        So much for "there's no place like Home".
    • 0
      Gamesta100 Dec 17, 08
      I have never had to try any more than 3 times to get on Home.
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    Storm Dec 16, 08
    Yeah, I get to the initializing screen, then it basically times out. Could have something to do with the surplus of people on it.
  • 0
    dwg14390 Dec 17, 08
    SO did they crash it??

    Cable went out for me ;;
  • 0
    RabidChinaGirl Dec 17, 08
    From the G4 forums:
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    Hey all,
    Thanks, for adding us and hopefully for not feeling let down if you weren't one of the few people in Kevin's club.

    Here's what went down:

    1. After we started adding people to our "club" we hit the maximum limit very quickly. Apparently there's an upper limit on the number of people you can have in your club - not even a limit on the number of physical avatars, but a limit on total membership. I think it was about 30 people we accepted before it wouldn't let us accept more.

    2. Olivia's club had so many invite requests that the list of requests failed to populate and showed up as no requests instead of the hundreds upon hundreds that we actually received - you can see them tick by in the corner of Olivia's screen during the show.

    So, we learned that PS Home is not ready yet for massive amounts of club membership requests - I think we'll probably have to uninstall and reinstall Home in order to fix the issue with Olivia's club.

    As for Kevin's club, once we hit our invite limit, we only had as many people as were still online in our room. But there was no way of knowing who was currently online and who wasn't so some people we accepted actually weren't online during the show or at least weren't in PlayStation Home.

    Thanks for your help, guys. I still think our little stunt was a big success.
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    Final Blade Dec 17, 08
    More like a failure if you ask me. And god what was the purpose of ding this? To state the already obvious that the Beta isn't complete yet. Or just to prove that Beta's are server stress testers and helping Sony with the massive amount of Stress on the server crashing it?

    I'm not sure, I'd like to think it's the latter, but for some reason the former just screams more though.
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      Big A2 Dec 17, 08
      The purpose was to see if PS Home would crash, and it didn't, becuase you could only put 30 people per club.
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    Frazeb Dec 17, 08
    Annoying but fun. It didn't crash did it?

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