Game Launching in Home not Sony’s Responsibility
It's ours apparently.Published 22/07/2009 at 14:00 by BioEye
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For anyone hoping Game launching were more broadened out in PlayStation Home, a recent blog comment by the American Home Manager, Locust_Star told members of the PlayStation community that it was down to developers to support game-launching, not Sony. While a number of Home spaces now support game launching, including Resistance 2 and Everybody’s Golf, it’s still not the norm for every PS3 game to have support for Home, as was suggested in Sony’s 2007 E3 presentation.
We’ve built the game launching feature in on our end. It is up to the developers of these titles to implement on their end. If you want to encourage a developer to patch their title to support game launching in Home, we fully encourage you to email them, leave a message on their forums/blogs, etc.
So while Sony may be contacting some developers, requesting Home support, it appears Sony would rather point the finger at the Home users themselves for not encouraging it enough to the developers. It is true that a developer would feel more under pressure to support game-launching in Home if many members of the community were to demand it from them, but the approach taken here seems somewhat ignorant of the fact that many PS3 users have deleted Home from their console for the very reason of lack of features. To ask the same people to be responsible for encouraging developers to support Home seems a little farfetched.
How do you feel about this? Do you think Sony should be pushing developers more for Home support, or that we as a community should be encouraging game developers to support game-launching from the virtual online world?
Source: Official US PlayStation Blog via Official EU PlayStation Forum
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jacklum | 22/07/2009 17:15
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The biggest thing they could do to get people into Home is if trophies gave you Home credits so you could purchase items and stuff that way. If people got hooked on obtaining Home items this way, then it would spur people to buy more trophy enabled games as well. Seems like it’d be a win-win all round to me. Maybe that’s too sensible though.
Rob92 | 22/07/2009 17:36
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They really have missed a trick with Home I believe.
As jacklum said (^) trophies giving you Home points is a fantastic idea. I’d certainly use it more. Game launching I’m afraid is a must. What IS the point in Home if we cant launch games quickly and easily with our friends, I just dont see the point.
Sony could be onto a massive winner with Home but they just dont seem bothered with it. Its like a half hearted effort.
joeybamboo | 22/07/2009 18:40
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i would sugest a littlebigplanet space and game launching, but they still havnt sorted the stupid lag out yet!! good things come to those who wait tho, eh?
endlesscupsoftea | 22/07/2009 21:38
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I don’t like the tone of Sony saying its up to the game people, if they want more people use it, then they have to make it more appealing. Ultimately it needs to hook into the games that people play, be it trophies, game launching, side benefits whatever. It needs to enhance the social aspect of gaming, which at the moment, certainly in the eu space, for a large number of people hasn’t yet done. I go round home sometimes, currently try to get on the buzz space and fail, and then leave. It does need more game spaces it really does. I want to be enthused by home, but am not. Probably amazed at the techical achievement, but what does that mean if I am not enthused by it and want to go there because it does not hook into games enough. Thats my two cents!
Severn2j | 23/07/2009 08:56
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The trouble with home is its just too unwieldy for what it does, whats the point of going into home, then arraging to meet with friends and finally launching the game, when you can just load up the game anyway and just use the games builtin lobby system.. Its like a solution to a problem that didnt exist. Until home becomes more important to the users, to the point that it practically replaces the xmb, theres just no need for game launching, imo
bunimomike | 23/07/2009 09:09
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Will read the comments a bit later but from my personal view, I just want to switch on the PS3 and choose a game. Have no need to socialise with friends on there as I have friends in the real world. That’s about it, to be fair. Best of luck to Home for anyone who wants it but not everyone feels the need to dress-up and look silly online. We can do that offline.
hazelam | 23/07/2009 10:57
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i bet they haven’t even sent most devs the game launching routines and instructions on how to use them.
that’s how backwards sony have been doing everything lately, i say lately but i mean ever since before the launch of the ps3.
hazelam | 23/07/2009 11:25
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i mean really.
“it’s not our fault”
that’s their best defense?they must have great big banners at the sony hq, one says “it’s up to the devs” and the other says “localisation”.
must be great to work in such a low pressure workplace.
if you don’t do your job just remember the banners and you can get away with anything.
Mentality | 26/07/2009 16:17
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It’s Sony’s job to build support for HOME not ours, we aint getting paid to advertise and develop it, what the hell is goign on with Sony, it’s like they’ve totally given up on they’re user base. Get it together Sony, your falling behind rapidly here. If you can make Trophies mandatory, why not HOME support, I can’t remember the last time I used HOME, it’s not providing what it promised and your not making any efforts otherwise.