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Home to contain regional barriers

Posted on July 17th, 2008 at 00:45 EDT

Adding another item to the list of region limited services today, it appears Home will have various restrictions based on locale.

While you'll be able to invite your friends from across the pond to your home space, you won't be able to take them out on the town to experience Home Square or other public spaces. This limitation guarantees that users experience content that is relevant to them, according to Sony. It likely keeps the advertisers happy as well.

I've devised a half-baked solution though: put a bowling alley and pool table in your apartment. It's known to be possible, but you'll most likely have to pay for such content. Regardless, it's a way you can best your foreign friends from the comfort of your virtual home.

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posted 12:47am EDT - July 17th, 2008
1

hmm, well i guess that also solves the language barrier problems too.

posted 12:51am EDT - July 17th, 2008
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also..i dont care how powerfull the servers are...unless its as stable as the internet with millions in the same game together, then everybody in the world being in the same HOME is NOT going to work smoothly at all. Think of it. This isnt a 32 player room...this is HOME, where alot of people are going to goto when they start their PS3's planning to game, i know its gonna be my first stop, to meet up with some peeps after getting the new sweet game.
posted 12:55am EDT - July 17th, 2008
3

i dont really care that much i really only want to hang out with people on my friends list anyways

posted 1:09am EDT - July 17th, 2008
4

You make this sound like a bad thing.
After MGO being region locked I've noticed how much I love it.
Some Americans can get rather anoying at times. Recism and high pitched children are only a few of the details I won't be missing.

All I can say is thanks Sony. (No offence intended to the general population of America).

posted 1:16am EDT - July 17th, 2008
5

All I care about is a release date.

PSN:bblas Feel Free To Add

posted 2:29am EDT - July 17th, 2008
6

@ Gameware
That is one of the reasons for the delays of Home, so that they could fix server stability problems, and MAG can hold up to 256 people PER game, I'm sure they have figured out a way to have loads of users while still providing smoothness.

posted 2:47am EDT - July 17th, 2008
7

As long as you can invite people from all over the world into your home space and go off and play together I don't mind that you cannot share certain public spaces with them.

posted 3:31am EDT - July 17th, 2008
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wait a minute I thought they said they'd integrate "dynamic advertisement" or whatever its called; were in if you're from the UK you only see british ads and and the same with the US and other refions respectively. - I just want to play with my friends and people from all around the world.

@Aperez beware of the quality vs quantity dozy just like in tests would you rather have 5 or 50 questions in yours?

 

posted 3:36am EDT - July 17th, 2008
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i dont get it

posted 3:47am EDT - July 17th, 2008
10

Good. 

posted 4:22am EDT - July 17th, 2008
11

yep im all for a bit of seperation

posted 4:51am EDT - July 17th, 2008
12

Keep us seperated we dont want a world war 3 online

posted 4:59am EDT - July 17th, 2008
13

this wont bother me, all of my friends that I would like to hang out with are from where I live. So this doesnt bother me at all. It may for some people. But who cares about them.

posted 5:09am EDT - July 17th, 2008
14

why not make region free areas. sony spots or something. there are companies that would love being able to reach out to the entire world instead of just one demographic. this really sucks for people that live abroad.

posted 6:42am EDT - July 17th, 2008
15

 Oh wow, Sony yet again trying to regionalize everything they have a f***ing hand in.

Good one Sony! 

WTF is up with Sony these days? They just seem to want to p11ss people off.

posted 6:54am EDT - July 17th, 2008
16

If it helps stability then I'm all for it. Besides, you can still invite people from other regions into your private room, right? So it's not like we can't meet up with people from outside our specific regions.

posted 6:58am EDT - July 17th, 2008
17

Its all about hanging out with your friends and doing activities anyway.

But Sony must keep everything in control still.

posted 10:18am EDT - July 17th, 2008
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I don't think I will miss Americans much anyway.

posted 10:42am EDT - July 17th, 2008
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what happens if like me you like to meet people from different regions?
posted 10:57am EDT - July 17th, 2008
20

There goes my chance of flirting with European babes.... ;(

posted 11:58am EDT - July 17th, 2008
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psn id: gingo... it makes sense and i'm glad they are not stopping you from inviting people to your own private space because that would be a disgrace

posted 12:40pm EDT - July 17th, 2008
22

thats cool with me cause i can careless about an AD. of any kind in the UK  i have no interest of going there or would I go there. besides dont know body wanna here 8 diffrent languages in there ear at one time or that annoying british accent .it sux cant get the chance to get a asian chick

posted 4:02pm EDT - July 17th, 2008
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@animaonline: I think "recist" live everywhere, as well as whiners and children....people are so closed minded and unwilling to tolerate any society other than their own...y'all need to go eat some poop m'kay?...lol

posted 9:19pm EDT - July 17th, 2008
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This must be some network error on Sony's behalf.  Why can't they have dynamic ads for specific regions?  There must be some error when one member from one region and one member from a different region occupy the same space and when viewing the ads there is a conflict.  Unless this region locking will help with some bandwidth issues then i'm all for it.  But nonetheless I just hope they can release Home without too many bugs, but thats what the open beta is for, so try not to be picky about Home.  We know Sony will come through.

posted 2:01pm EDT - July 18th, 2008
25

Stupid. Sony failures++

posted 9:45am EDT - July 23rd, 2008
26

God d*mn it! Now I'm stuck in Home with a bunch of germans and french guys! THE INTERNET IS ENGLISH!!!

posted 2:05am EDT - July 29th, 2008
27
this is really dumb, they should just put all the english speaking countries on one server, and japanese speaking countries on another and french speaking people on another etc etc...
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