PlayStation Home Enters New Private Beta
Hot on the heels of SCEA Home Director Jack Buser’s recent PlayStation Blog post discussing the current state of Home, it appears that the service will enter yet another ‘Closed Beta’ test phase for select users.
Apparently invites to this new, isolated Private Beta have already started going out, with users in Europe on the receiving end of said invites.
The following message is what users can expect to receive if they’re chosen to take part in this new Private Beta:
Dear Beta Tester,
You have been invited to take part in the Private Beta for PlayStation ® Home.
This Beta is to test and obtain your feedback on changes that have been made based on suggestions by yourselves and members of the PS Home Community.
Well, it looks like SCE is rethinking their approach to Home and taking their time to try and work out the many kinks that have plagued the service over the past few months. This could perhaps be a turning point for the service, as it has been under scrutiny as of late for pushing new digital content week after week, while neglecting the utilization of any new, usable features; I’m certainly hopeful.
Again, as stated, the only region to receive invites thus far has been Europe, but there’s probably a very good chance that we’ll see some activity in North America at some point as well. If you happen to receive an invite, let us know down in the comments! Just beware not to break your NDA!
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15 Responses to “PlayStation Home Enters New Private Beta”
wait whats NDA?
amen @ what Skullking123 said
absolutely skullking
Perhaps they could get some decent devs on it so we don’t have to put up with the inordinate, unnecessary and irritating loading times.
Games can be seamless, why can’t Home? And as for that start-up delay… give me strength.
Unify the regions, fix the underlying tech, put useful functionality in, and I might return more often. As it is, I pop in once a month to download free stuff…
And I don’t even know why.
@skullking123 – Yea I was wondering the same thing, what ever happened to that trophy room? I was excited for that.
Home is ghey…
Peace,
VG
i was lucky to get into the closed Home beta in 2008 towards the end of the year. I hope to get chosen again as I do spend most of my time in Playstation Home.
When you consider that Home was an SCEE project headed by Phi Harrison it is only natural that a “CLOSED” Beta would start there. They might not need any more than what they invited but when they go to release it to other regions they will have to probably have regional testers to make sure that what they have changed will work correctly in those regions.
Oh and any Trophy Room that might have been teased in ’07 have probably been thrown away since Phil Harrison had been removed from Sony.
HOME? What’s HOME???!!!…
thought tghats what nda was just couldnt put the words together lol… home is something i go on at 3 i nthe morning right before i pass out to go look at the new content… i never spend more then 20-30 mins on there…maybe runn around and laugh at all the avatars mackin on each other (pathetic) and ive nevvverrrr purchased any content from home…although i did get the free houses they were offering in the early stages and the free mag shirts and free w/e i could find
I liked home till the open beta. It grew so big it got dull. half the time you are waiting to get an opening into a game the other half you are trying to chat with people like a person and getting morons instead. it seems to be just a way to grab a few more bucks from people. There is no way in hell I am paying for a virtual tee shirt, things like that should be earned by trophy status or the games available in home.
… you know kind of like the few that could be won in the brick breaker game.
longest beta ever…
I probably visit home like 2 or 3 times a month just outta curiousity and only more if I see a ad somewhere else on PS3 about some new added content that interests me. At first I interact with people but the I just started watchin in on converstations and realized that those clowns on there can have it. I’d rather not run the chance of starting a converstation with someone that’s gonna get on my nerves. The last person I met off there and added as a friend was always askin me for a pic and was basically trying to us this GAMING community as some sort of a myspace community. I don’t wanna see your face, I just wanna play some games.
Why don’t they just rename it to Playstation Home Forever?
hello
LOL @ Robotron – Playstation Home Forever !
I’m on HOME quite often, like once a week LOL, i like Sodium One & other minigames, even if i met a few friends there, seemed like i never talked to them again pr played with them, they are just in the list.
as for the other stuffs, i’m after the freebies, Salt Shooter being the only thing i paid for two articles (pilot suite + concrete boots)
did i say the mini games were cool … yeah LOL!
got the Batman AA – batcave, never there though, the Audi apartment, the in the trees apartment, etc …
I wish they coul unify things though, add more cooler games & yeah that trophy room would be great. if i could also have tailor made video streaming off the apartments would be great too, it may be for games trailers, a few HOME exclusive videos etc …
well can’t wait to see what they are proposing
cheers!