PlayStation Home Beta Update

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We are aware that some people may be experiencing difficulty in accessing the PlayStation Home beta at present. This is due to overwhelming demand for the service as people access Home for the very first time since it became Open Beta and appeared on the XMB.

While we prepare solutions to ease the problem, you may continue to experience difficulties accessing Home. We kindly ask for your patience as we work to meet the incredible demand for this revolutionary service.

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  • i have a suggestion for home. i know a lot of people think it is ridiculous that we have to pay money for stuff. i think you could keep it as is ,but have other means of getting goodies. For instance, coke has something similar to playstation home called coke studios. you get a form of money called decibals by either buying cokes and entering the code under the cap or playing the games for a chance to win decibals against other players. You should do the games and have players get a chance to get a form of money to buy items in Home and also put redeemable codes in with ps3 games. Thats my suddestion and im sure other players would agree with me. let me know what you think.

  • GUys,who have this problem: Connection to the server was lost Z(7,-2).I have a good connection,internet is working perfectly!Whats wrong?

  • Hi Sony,

    Not sure if you are aware of this problem, but when i download Home (close beta or this open one) I for some reason cannot install anything else to my HDD, demos or game updates! Is anything being done about this? Does anyone else have this problem?

  • so… you weren’t epecting many people to be using HOME then?
    oh, you were? So why didnt you get the servers ready for the huge influx of users when HOME was first launched?
    I think two days of error codes while trying to get back into HOME after the public beta was launched is a bit of a pi$$ take!

  • That’s an understatement. I haven’t checked the Open Home myself, but all I hear around here in Europe is complaining with errors and not being able to get in Home. Nice f**k up SCEE, as usual :-P

  • Well i’ve had connectiopn problems too, not to the extent that some seem to be suffering but its just taken me 30 min to get signed in.

    my experience so far.
    – re-decorated my appartment, nice option, wonder if u can bring ppl bk to it ( if this feature is available ive not found it)
    – 4 move checkmate’d some one at chess, loool, not played in maybe 7 years. ( i will add, i then had an hour n a half game with the same guy, he was cery good and eventually he won)
    – looked around the shopping center, i dont use credit/debit cards on the internet so i wont be purchasing any stuff (sorry sony).
    – Played on ice breaker/monochrome, ice breaker is far better, at one point on monochrome my guy vanished.

    Overall.

    Amazing 10/10 for effort.

    cons- Abusive/racist names and comments in all languages, i know this will be hard to police, but please try, there is nothing worse than a “13” year old hurling abuse at you because your avatar has blue hair etc etc…

    Keep up the great work sony

    DD

  • Ryan NZ- When u installed playstation home it will have asked you if you will allow it to “reserve” space on your harddrive, you have to say yes to proceed.

    Try deleting excess content, demo’s, vid’s pictures etc to free up space

    hope this helps
    DD

  • SONY I WANT HOME NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • I think home is quite good (now its appeared on my XMB) but I heard that there is a far cry 2 game space, and I cant find it. Is it actually there? If so where is it?

  • Also I have a few suggestions:

    1. I want VIRTUAL money, not real money, to spend on stuff. Stop trying to rip us off. 59p for a rubber duck? Seriously…

    2. More games

    3. More pool tables, arcade machines, bowling alleys, etc.

    4.GAME SPACES
    thnx.

  • I totally agree with you threat, maybe reward players with VIRTUAL money depending on there trophies, or number of games they have, this way people would buy more games knowing they will be rewarded, so sony will still make money

  • i have a idea to stop abuese sony should select some people to be police! p.s what is a game space

  • “cons- Abusive/racist names and comments in all languages, i know this will be hard to police, but please try, there is nothing worse than a “13″ year old hurling abuse at you because your avatar has blue hair etc etc…”

    Yeah I know what you mean. When I was out there in the closed beta as little old me, female, I always got a hurdle of guys around me, like they’ve never seen a woman before. As a guy, because I was sick and tired of all that hey lady stuff, I got yelled at :?

  • So far Home is good but it does have its issues.

    1) Better security – mute is good option but put in a report command to rat out the abusers. Plus some with headsets have been spewing racist, sexist, and other hateful things.

    2) More content – I mean more of everything, music, customization items and places, etc.

    3) Cheaper stuff – The price of things is just too high for what is offered.

    4) Codes and virtual dollars – these are great ideas as it allows those without access to online funds to customize their avatars and places.

    5) Massive potential – exploit the potential as much as possible.

    Otherwise good job overall.

  • I don’t know about the others problems, I’ve had a few, but always managing to get into Home after a while.

    Actually was in Home Friday night until around 5 am playing Warhawk with a bunch of friends and had a great time !

    @309 therat…..Farcry is in the Map location area as well as Sulley’ Bar…but I’m not sure if it’s exclusive to the North American Home or not…I saw some people from Europe Home saying they don’t have it…so if you’re not on the North Am Home, that may be the problem.

  • Well I’m just glad we can get in, my question is how to access from psp xmb when I’m at work lunch breaks would be that much cooler if I can get into home on my Psp
    Holla at your Boy.

  • UN-BE-LIE-VA-BLE… They sure know how to screw things up here in Europe. I’ve just tried out Open Home Beta. In the European Home I couldn’t even be logged in, constant error’s were bugging me. So I logged in with my US account, “bam”, online in no time.

  • WHERE IS RED BULL ISLAND SONY !

  • THER NOT GOING TO HERE YOUR REQUEST GO TO HOMEBETATRIAL.COM TO AND POST THE SUBJEXT AS FEEDBACK THANK YOU

  • I keep getting:

    c. 931

  • what should i do???

  • yo FROZEZONE here when i tried to login to PSH it said i wasn’t old enough im over 13 but it’s still trippin yo can any help

  • does anyone know how to get rid of the parental settings problem?

  • OMG I WENT BACK TO MY APARTMENT AND I GOT ROBBED ALL MY STUFF WAS MESSED UP AND I LOST ALL MY SOFAS BUMMER!

  • icant get in home help me please!!! I have friends that have already played and i cant do it please do it as fast as you can. I get:

    C 931
    C 931
    C 931
    C 931
    C 931
    ALL THE TIMES I TRY! WHAT DO I DO? please help me. fix this fast

  • mine says connection lost. is tht due too there bein to many ppl playin???

  • Thanx Speedybull and I’ve just done so.

  • first impressions PART 1:

    Home looks good and could be a winner, if done properly, which means maybe more than just running around, decorating stuff nobody will see (i mean seriously, what reason is there right now to invite somebody to your apartment?? to show your way overpriced purchased new furniture/summerhouse? ) or experimenting bawdy moves on the plaza?

    so here’s my list of suggestions so far:

    – adding the function to easily report bugs/suggestions in Home – it will help Sony/Home and makes it easier for the user.

    – no queuing on the arcade’s OR maybe selling arcade-machines for the apartment? i’ve seen Namco has a setup in the japanese Home with some placeholders of classic arcades like pacman, dig dug, phoenix and more. how cool would that be to have those machines in your apartment and actually play them???

    – easier way of selecting an advertising/video screen to display in frame. it’s nearly impossible if there are heaps of people in front of it to move to a spot so the ‘watch video’ button shows up, because of all the user-names showing instead.

  • first impressions PART2:

    – prices for furniture, real estate or cloths are way to high.
    i’d consider buying that stuff for maybe 1/3 of the price. OR offer the possibility to win everything that’s offered in store

    – more multiplayer games, like 2 player-arcades, ping pong, stuff for your apartment that makes it worth inviting people for.
    instead of playing chess in the plaza and blocking others, why not offering chessboards for the apartment?

    I appreciate the possibility to also visit the american and japanese HOME via the PSN account of that area. it’s interesting to see how it looks and what they have to offer … i somehow feel that europeans got the short end of the stick, but i am sure that will change :).

    just one question…
    will that cause trouble in the long run with the reserved HOME HDD space of 3GB when mixing it up with location of other areas?
    will there be a chance to delete not so often used locations to free up that space?

    i hope that posting comes across more as constructive criticism than a nagging,
    i am looking forward to more updates hopefully soon, cause that will be something that keeps it interesting for a loooong time.

    Thanks

  • just a thought for Home. say you had people over in your house, (in Home) you would want to entertain them. a few of my ideas included a stereo system, tv, and of coarse simple board games. the home owner has control over stereo and tv and he/she plays something that is in there playstation system. for both of those things the host could stream there own music and videos. that is my idea and i honestly think it would be a fantastic way to make a unique game that much more diverse. i dont know if you have any power over alot but find some way to bring the idea out. one more thing. u remember the game Tony Hawk underground? how u could take a picture of yourself and it would make ur face the characters? that would be another great concept. i have 1,384 more ideas if you.re interested.

  • i have 1,384 ideas 4 home and here are 4. 1st, stereo-u can stream your own music for guest to hear. 2nd, a tv-u can stream ur own videos. 3rd, tony hawk underground character making. take ur picture it makes your face. 4th, a gta4 laptop internet idea

  • home is good

  • Home Is Awesome Waited A Long Time For It.

    I Can’t Wait For It To Grow And Evolve
    And Am Interested To Know How Far Sony Will Take This Will It Be Like A Gamers Second Life I Hope So.

    Great Job

  • Here Are A Few Ideas That I Think Mite Be Fun
    A Couple I Have Even Heard Others Talk About As Well, Fighting In Every Community There Are Those People Who’s Soul Purpose It Is To Harrase You Now If We Had A Fight Option In Where You Could Challenge The Other Person To a Fight (Make It Challenge So That People Do Not Just Run Around Starting Fights Both People Need To Be Willing)

    Jobs: I Know There Is Not Much To Buy Right Now But i Am Sure There Will Be Tons Soon After All This Is Sony And You Want Money Lol So How Bout Offering In game Jobs So Younger People Or People With Out Credit Cards Can Earn Money To Get Furniture And New Homes And All That.

    I Know It Has Been Mentioned Before T.V And Stereo But I Have A Better Idea Then So Far Mentioned

  • For T.V Have Basic cable Of Course Which all Can Get For free but also sell cable packages wait let me explain.
    Like Let There be a qore channel package where it shows old qore episodes and new when available I am sure That Game Marketers May Like This Ideas As Well They Could Make Channel Packages as well fill it with some sort of programing but all commercials on the channels in that package would be for the products and sony could sell the sort of packages and all would be happy
    Radio Same Thing Put On Some Music Have Radio Stations I Am Sure That Alot Of Marketing And Even real stations would be happy to broadcast on home and the advertising and marketing sales would be vary good for sony and maybe with these ideas it could also help with the other idea of having in games jobs as well

    well please others add to and comment on my ideas please

  • I’m going to be completely Honest, even though everyone on here is going to hate me. Home SUCKS so far. There, I said it. I waited forever for this and it is a huge disappointment.

    Don’t get me wrong, I am a major PS3 fan. I spent all last evening loving Resistance 2 multiplayer and it was fantastic. Being a fan of Sony, however, doesn’t change the fact that Home was boring. I made my avatar, decorated my bare-bones apartment, and then wandered around. I couldn’t bowl or play the arcade games or chess because everything was full. The Uncharted and Far Cry areas were boring. All you can do is stand and look around. The flying saucer game over the pond was okay. What about a single, pixelated trailer in the theater? Really? This is what we waited for? This is what millions of dollars was spent on? Couldn’t all that money have gone into other projects? Why not just use that money to make the Xmedia bar what it should be?

  • I’m back. Now, someday HOme MIGHT be cool. someday. But, instead of spending millions on Home, why not update the PS3 and allow universal chat (like the 360 has had FOREVER), where I can be playing one game, my friend playing another, but we can still chat? Why not make it so that I can play any music on my Hard Drive while playing a game? (Like the 360 has had FOREVER) Everyone wants these features and adding them to the Xmedia bar would have been ten times cheaper than producing Home.

    Like I said, there may come a day when HOME is totally awesome. Unfortunately, at the pace Home has developed at so far, that day is a LONG way down the road. I wanted to love home. I was so excited, but the mall is empty, the pervs are plenty, and all my creativity I was promised in creating “my own space” still has no outlet. The offerings in the mall to improve my house are limited, lame, and way over priced. Two to three bucks for a digital couch? Give me a break.

    Anway, I remain a Sony fan and can’t wait to gun em’ down in Killzone 2 and be AMong Thieves with Nathan Drake.

  • HELP!!!

    There is no Playstation Home symbol I can click on. How can I get it?

  • Im havin the same problem… no playstation Home icon appears on the screen .. what should i do please.. help

  • I created a subaccount for my husband and he cant log into home due to age restrictions. I have checked all the age restriction settings on my ps3 but that didn’t help.

  • i heard home was awsome but i diddent get the my icon on the xmb yet but i can wait though

  • I had a problem last night with a server error but it corrected itself by simply resetting the modem. Also can anyone tell me how the bluetooth operation works? Is it a headset that plugs into the Playstation 3 console?

  • they should make this for the psp too that would be awesome!!!

  • @Koreginald
    You understand this is BETA?

  • SONY WHY DONT I GET EVERYTHING THAT AMERICA AND ASIA GETS JUST BECAUSE I LIVE IN THE UK! It’s discrimination I tell ya.

  • @DF 342 You just register it with the PS3 then its wireless. You have to plug it in to charge it though.

  • patrick i need help please.. what should i do about the missing icon of home.. it doesnt appears on screen

  • how do u get on ur ps3

  • Error 603 can not connect to server, since launch??? Wut next???

    :P

  • Hi i’m a playstation user and i have looked on youtube and google on how to get playstation home beta and i have tried there suggestions and none of them have worked i’m just wondering why i haven’t been able to get playstation home.

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