I wrote a quick post yesterday explaining why a “DELETED” tag was inserted into my Post #132 above — and how the removal implied I said something much worse than was originally written — only to discover today that my explanation had been completely deleted in its entirety.

Was it because I questioned this word removal… or was it because I quoted Sony’s own clause regarding language usage, which itself is considered too inappropriate to be printed on these pages?

Makes you wonder…

In either event, I simply wanted folks to know that the removed text was the word “b***h” — it was not something worse.

But chances are this will be removed as well, so I don’t really know why I am even bothering to write this.

And should this actually appear, I thank the system.

However, this new chat window in HOME is a complete disaster — in order for me to read the text now, I have to stand 3-4 feet away from the screen; my wife has the same problem. This is a completely unacceptable situation. (I also have the same issue when playing XI, the HoloPad “email” text is too small to read…)
 
NOTE TO DEVELOPERS: Would it have been THAT difficult to include an option for a user-selectable chat window text size? Or even simple options like small (normal), medium and large?
 
HOME developers NEED to be realize that not all gamers are teens or college agers with 20/20 vision — although I definitely used to be in that category, I’m now 45 and wear glasses because of an ever increasing astigmatism. So yes, for those of us who are now middle-aged gamers, this super-small text is an absolute [DELETED] to read!

(I also have a medium degree of red-green color blindness, which is a nuisance in some games.)

With regard to the new HOME chat window, I desperately beg the developers to help older gamers by providing an option to change the chat window text size. A similar text size option for certain elements of XI would also be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks in advance.

Is anybody else having a problem reading the new chat window?

On one hand, I love the new chat window features — I especially like being able to close it down completely with L3, so unwanted chatter doesn’t intrude when I’m playing the minigames in the various spaces (it was REALLY a nuisance when playing Ice Breaker in the Bowling Alley). However…
 
I am having SEVERE problems reading the text — it’s so small as to be completely unreadable (and I thought it was too small before the update… legible, but small.).
 
I have a terrific 40″ Sony WEGA KV-40XBR800 HDTV; it’s a 300+ lb. monster 4:3 CRT TV, which to this day is still considered to be one of THE best HDTV tubes ever made (although only 1080i… it came out just before 1080p sets were released as standard). The way our living room is set up, I normally sit about 10 feet away from the screen, and it’s always been a fantastic viewing area. I’ve never had ANY problems reading the text in any of the games I’ve played to date.

[cont. on #132]

Anyway, the Resistance space is a great addition to Home (love the minigame and the old station-style leaderboards, although it’s a bit weird to have to walk a fair ways from the actual game terminal to see your updated score on the leaderboards), and I look forward to picking up the game (haven’t gotten round to it yet).