PlayStation Home full of immature jokers, unlike other virtual communities
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted December 30th 2008 1:59PM
posted December 30th 2008 1:59PM
It's not been a good month for Sony. Layoffs, poor holiday sales for the PS3 and a wee bit of hacking over at PlayStation Home surely have the electronics giant hungry for some good press, which has made the newest PR kerfuffle over at the nascent online service quite unfortunate. According to Ars Technica, Home has become something akin to the nightmare futurescape of The Warriors, a service "incredibly unwelcoming to women, with female players quickly mobbed as players dance around them or type sexual come-ons... a disturbing look at the worst part of human nature." This is heady stuff, but as the company is quick to point out, the thing is still in Beta, and it's still evolving -- hopefully, as it becomes more popular the free service will move itself out of the adolescent ghetto. In the mean time, they've been rocking a bit of good old fashioned censorship, banning words like "gay," "Jew," and "Hell" -- perfectly understandishable if you've ever spent a minute on any online gaming service, but highly uncool if you're trying to build any sort of inclusive social network. In the meantime, what's a homosexual Jewish Satanist to do? There's always Second Life...
My 5 year old goes onto home as my avatar and fortunately she isn't mobbed. It also helps that she is illiterate so she doesn't read some of the comments on their. But she likes the bowling and the ice breaker game. It would be nice if she was able to go one without supervision, but I just don't see that happening.
Yeah doesn't it suck how 5yo's can't take care of themselves, outrageous.
What about the lesbian Jewish Wiccans do?
Oh, they end the world.
just evidence of the total lack of anything entertaining to do in home. people have to turn to griefing to make it interesting.
Home its the biggest F**cking failure in gaming history!