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I could care less if Home succeeds or not. In it's current stage, I don't think anyone can argue it isn't that great. Does it have potential? Of course! The point is though, it is completely sad that people are buying virtual pieces of land. Did everyone not learn from the horse armor sold in Oblivion? Do not buy this stuff!
Apparently, Home has generated more revenue for Sony in its first four days than the rest of the PSN did during its entire launch week. Somewhere out there, people are actually buying furniture for their piece of sh*t Second Life knock-off that took valuable R&D away from actual videogame products.
According to Susan Panico, Sr. Director of the Playstation Network with Sony, it's a small amount of obsessives generating a lot of money: "It's a classic 80/20 model, where 20% of your customers create 80% of your income," she boasts.
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- Sony PS3 'Home' Virtual Goods Booming (SNE) (alleyinsider.com)
- Home virtual items selling like crazy (neoseeker.com)
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/facepalm
Jeez, guys! This is crazy.
What a waste of money. Might as well collect that money and buy a new game instead of buying that crap.
not right nw though, its still beta, chances are that i could lose it
And people say paying for XBL monthly is bad?
@Xenc - Home is to build a strong online community, just like XBL seems to have a strong online community. Home actually makes online play, like setting up online rooms, easier and more efficient. It improves the online play in some aspects. Paying for those aesthetics, assuming if this is true and people are paying for them, will make the application and PSN much more fluid.
Well, gee, I guess I was right about the Holocaust actually being established by Australia, then, using your logic.
Plus when PSN launched (im assuming nov. 2006) there wasn't much things to buy. My guess the number of sales will increase with more people joining home and more things are being offered.
It's an escape from reality, if it makes people feel better "wasting" money on virtual coffee tables then go for it!
What right do any of you people have to tell others they are sad for buying things within Home?
I CANT WAIT FOR SIMS 3 EITHER
FB makes me very sad face.
Wow, guys...I understand a lot of people don't like Home, but now riding on people's asses because they feel like buying stuff with their own money? Keep this up guys, half of you don't realize how *bleep*ing stupid you are all acting for no good reason.
Seriously a couch for $2? 50 cents for a decorative set of samurai swords? If these things had some sort of functional purpose maybe. If they cost a fifth of what they are asking certainly. I would pay a dime for the samurai swords, maybe. I might pay 40 cents for a nicer couch, if I spent more than 15 minutes a month playing with it anyway. But the asking prices are ridiculous.
Everything in the needs to be bought with virtual money, it just doesn't make sense why people would pay ANYTHING for virtual furniture.
Now I'm not against the idea in and of itself. As I have said over and over if you don't want it don't pay for it. No one is forcing you to spend money on something you don't want. The same goes for any of the DLC for any other game. Quit bitching about it this is a business and they are trying to make money. If you don't want it then don't pay for it. You are then voicing your opinion to te company that way.
But they are over charging for the stuff. It is after all just a decoration. I hardly consider $2 a micro transaction.
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