Playstation Home 1.75 Patch Notes

So if you're not a plus member you don't count anymore. Really it's all about money now isn't it. Doesn't matter how much money you spend in the Mall. It only matters if you spend money on Plus. Wonderful.

I'm not sure I understand the camera portable. It's now in the emote menu?

 

that's sad i am not a plus member

 

I had a feeling this update was nothing but another shameless money grab by Sony. This just goes to prove it.

 

As a plus member I'm glad to see more bang for my buck in Home, sadly it's mostly for basic features that really every user should have access to.

 

Yeah and those who spend 1000's get what? Seriously enough with the special I'm a plus member baloney. Core features should be for everyone.

 

your right joanna it should be

 

Well it's become obvious to me lately that what the community as a whole thinks doesn't really matter anymore. It's all about the money now and that is what we are seeing from the selling of emotes and loco items to this push for core features that the community has been asking for forever by trying to force Plus Membership.

This is only the beginning I'm afraid. I suspect if you want multiple apartment saves and more you'll have to be a Plus Member to get them in the future.

 

While I agree core features like these should be for everyone, the argument of "what do people get who spent thousands" is invalid, when you buy items in Home you're buying those items, nothing else, when you buy a plus sub you're paying for the privilege of getting discounts, early access and exclusive content.The keyword here being "content" I totally agree that some of the most basic features shouldn't be hidden under a subscription service.

The main problem I see here is they're clearly testing the waters to see how many new plus members this brings in, Seems to me it's only a matter of time before PSN and therefore Home access itself requires a subscription.

 

When Plus was first introduced I asked for more Plus benefits within Home, but I never expected them to go in this direction. The new features they're introducing seem to be basic updates that should be available to everyone.

 

I was only convinced to get PSPlus when they offered the home spaces for free with it. I don't have very much interest in the blahblah (Bordercraplands etc, fps, fps blah blah blah, same old crap they've been selling since Doom, get over it yawn), So for me it's good if they give more Playstation Home content.

You'll still have the same content you had in Home, they're not taking it away from you & I'd speak up & say you should still get free basic access to home, free access to Home is something that is a real plus point for the PS3.

Companies want to make money, if you think that companies can run without making profit, then I'd love to see your business model. Sony & others clearly want to make "more" money from Home. I really don't see the problem, so long as they keep the basic features & keep them free. Then if you've paid for PSPlus, or if you want to pay more then you get more content.

Even already we see the locomotion items, which didn't interest me at all, they're all just sitting in my inventory, I have little or no interest... I used the free LBP cupcake cart a little.

But just now I paid for a pink horse. I wanted a pink horse. that Prairie "Trail" was a huge dissapointment... there's nice artwork, nice trees, the grass sways, but little interaction & there's a house but we can't go in it, there's a train but we can't ride it!!!

lol, sorry side tracked.

Point is I wanted the horse, I paid for the horse, I've been happily riding around almost every free space & through all my apartments with my horse... I really like the horse, but I had no real interest in the other locomotion items & I havn't paid for them, so that's fine by me.

 

I bought one of those 17.99 plus memberships for the first time about three months ago.So far I guess it's all right ,I got 2 games ,Rochard and Darksiders and some X7 discounts,which i was happy about.I want to keep playing the games so i plan on re-newing my plus membership and now this update.I have an added incentive it seems,to renew.I'll try it for another three months,see how it goes.As far as the rest goes,I agree that it's just the beginning.These changes are probably leading to what Home will be on the PS4.

 

Changing wardrobe while in another person's apartment is cool. Always wanted that.

 

As much as it pains me to side with Sony on this...

These aren't core features that are being restricted to Plus. Let's go down the list from the OP:

The core function is modifiable hair and makeup colors. The limitation for non-plus is that the palette of colors is quite limited. The core function is nevertheless available to all and provides choices covering most of the natural hair colors, not to mention a few unnatural ones.

Again, the core functionalities remain: multiple save slots, multiple popup colors. You just get twice as much of each if you have Plus.

Whatever this is, it's not something anyone would call a core feature. I think Plus users can already stick a golden plus sign over their heads, anyway. Both are perfectly useless, in my opinion.

Sorry. Whatever other arguments against these practices may exist, I don't think it's true that Sony's preventing non-Plus users from using the associated core features.

 

I was considering plus again because they are finally giving good discounts (LBP Karting for $10), if you only use home, it's not worth it. I use max of 6 save slots. It would be nice to have my real shade of hair, but its not worth paying extra.

 

This update is really a let down.
Not much requested features had been addressed and they go the route that restricts what we can do. I was expecting at least some better wardrobe management, and personal space furniture save slots with the update

The only thing I see good about is that we can change in others personal spaces. The other features are blah, or something I can't really trust.

 

http://playstationhome.jp/support/update/20130130.html

 

Thanks Shaundi and Faga!

 

Nah, I think this is for the better good for once. -Chief Sofa