PlayStation Home Officially Closed

finally this nonsense came to an end...

I tried it a couple times....between having to download a ton.....I mean a ton of data and looooooong load times it never struck a chord with me......

character creation was limited, you had to buy crap just to make your character look even somewhat cool....all I ever saw in the environment was bunches of people just standing around at various spots.....yeah.....the world was dead though so IDK, I can't feel sorry for this closure....or shut down whatever.....

PS Home is one of the many things Sony did wrong with the PS3.

Checked it out once, realized it was terrible, and went back to playing Demon's Souls.

Good riddance. Guess dudes pretending to be chicks so they can creep on what they think are chicks, but are really other dudes, will have to go elsewhere to get their creep on now...

I only used it a couple of times just to see what it was about. Had one of my funniest moments in all of my online gaming though.

Some poor girl apparently stumbled into PS Home. The little boys were on her like white on rice! Lol. They hounded that poor girl for 20 mins before she got fed up and left. It was hysterical.

NEVER heard of this. Welp....

I remember this at launch. Downloading took a long time, loading took a while also, and maybe log in a few time before I realize it wasn't really anything. I think I watched a video in one of the theaters and after waiting forever to try to go bowling, I gave up.

Hahahahaha another Sony failure.

It was an interesting idea that was poorly implemented, ran badly, and got virtually no support from SONY after launch. One of their typical "fire and forget" strategies.

Like most Sony things, they had this great idea and expected third parties to carry it.... If Sony would have spent time and money improving the social aspect of it then this thing could have been a virtual Facebook instead of some Second Life wannabe.

This article is my only of memory of Playstation home

It was an interesting idea but it was on the wrong direction. It should have been like facebook or like a Hub world for gaming where you can meet your friends online form parties and then go coop games of your choice. Or have mobile version which acts like facebook but has more customisation.

Let me spin you a little tale.

Before 2010, I did not have a way to connect any devices to the internet, and the only reason I had internet on my PC at all, was thanks to one of those USB mobile dongles. If I ever needed things done online, I had to go to a library, an internet café or a friend's house (which is also where I played most online games).

Then in 2010 when I finally did get fully fledged internet, I was ecstatic. I hooked everything up to it via Wifi... except my Nintendo DS, cos my security type wasn't WEP, and fun fact: The original NDS only supports WEP security. After that, I wondered the most natural thought I've ever had, "Which game should I play online first?" In the end, I decided to play MGS4 online, but after turning my console on and creating my PSN account, I noticed Playstation Home. Always curious as to what it was (couldn't go on it before, since I had no net), I decided to go on it before playing MGS4. That essentially makes PS Home the very first "App" or "Game" (if you want to call it that) I ever went on with my own personal internet. I had a lot of fun on Home, even if it didn't have much content. Running around and exploring this open-ended world with no objective, that was full of other, real people was a new experience to me. Any online games I played beforehand at the café or friend's house, were mostly shooters, and even when they were MMO's, there was always some objective or mission to do, which mean there was never time to stop and just talk to these strangers. I think Home just changed my outlook on calm social platforms in general, so in all honesty, even though I haven't been on it for some time, and sidenote: I did go on it a few dozen times after this first venture, I can't say I'm a little sad to see it go.

Oh, and if you're wondering. MGS4 online was goddamn awesome too.

Lasted a lot longer online than MLB The Show 2014.. I think this is a record for Sony

I am glad PlayStation Home is finally gone. I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did.

Never heard of it, when does it come out ?

any note worthy memories in PS Home...hmmm....nothing at all. The only memory I have is how long the loading times were

Good riddance. What a bunch of garbage. My only memory of it is that it sucked.

And nothing of value was lost.

Where am I going to live now?

My fondest memory was it taking two days to download, a few minutes to load, then feeling like I wasted all of that time and the around two hours I spent playing it. I felt bad for the females that were hounded and harassed by the pathetic boys thinking they were gonna get a chance with someone for once in their life. I can't say I will miss it.

The only real fools on this April Fools Day are the gamers thinking Sony has great online support. This may have closed because of it's age but explain why other of their past games with less than 2 years closed online. Playstation will never compete with PCs online multiplayers service quality. I have played games on PC that was supported over a decade by the company.

and not a single fcuk was given

And good fuckking riddance to PS Home. I only visit the place one day, and never look back.

I remember exploring this for an hour or two when it released... I could see the idea behind it but... it was never going to work.