Rumor: Home Expanded Beta Release Date

As you probably already know, there will be a Home expanded beta opening it's doors to a group of lucky PS3 owners by the end of the summer. While European PlayStation owners have received confirmation E-mails as well as previous Home beta testers, the rest of us are stuck wondering when we will receive our shot to experience the revolutionary social gaming application. Well, FeedonPS3 may have the answer you looking for.

[SpiderBoy36]

Betty sounds smart.

[Surfman]

im sure she's sexy

[hazeblaze]

Anyone know if this site is at all credible?

[jwatt]

If true then I think I was right about Sony wanting the Socom Beta and Home beta to be launched along side each other.

[nbsmatambo]

well the author did a good job of calling them out lol.. I wonder if they could potentially get into trouble with sony for spilling the beans

[rickjames]

yea wat a doosh! she told you the release date and you rat her out??

[INehalemEXI]

Poor Betty , if this turn out to be true.

[acedoh]

I have been in the BETA over a year. Others were invited. I had to to install Home again. Nothings changed except maybe the server. Here's the e-mail...

WELCOME TO HOME BETA
Dear PLAYSTATION®Home Beta Tester,

We are now moving into the next phase of PLAYSTATION®Home's evolution. As a current tester, we'd like you to continue participating in PLAYSTATION®Home.

Your existing PLAYSTATION®Home Beta will no longer work as of approximately August 14th, 2008. You will need to delete the old version of PLAYSTATION®Home in order to install the new Expanded Closed Beta Client. You can delete PLAYSTATION®Home by selecting it and pressing TRIANGLE and then choosing Delete. Please remember to delete your saved data for it too. You will find it under [Saved Data Utility] in the [Game] section of the XMB™ (XrossMediaBar).

How to download
After you have signed in with your PLAYSTATION®Network Account, select [Account Management] on the XMB interface located under the "PLAYSTATION®Network " tab, then select [Transaction Management] and click on the option [Redeem PLAYSTATION®Network Card or Promotion Code]. Enter the following unique code to start the download of PLAYSTATION®Home Extended Closed Beta Client:

(Sorry I am not giving you this)

Please note: The unique code is case sensitive and must be entered exactly as displayed. Only the PSN Online ID associated with this email address will be able to access the PLAYSTATION®Home Extended Closed Beta. Please review the terms and conditions associated with the PLAYSTATION®Home Extended Closed Beta.

Thank you for your continued support and we look forward to seeing you in PLAYSTATION®Home.

Yours truly,

The PLAYSTATION®Network
Sony Computer Entertainment America

[PiTCHBLaCK]

That is kind of harsh by telling everyone
what Betty said, not to mention using her name.

[shazam]

he made up the name so that he wouldn't reveal. betty is just such a common name that is easily made up off the top of ones head.

[Stallone1993]

she probably is... just take it with a grain of salt :P

[Bloodshedder]

this is BS

[ThatCanadianGuy]

Hopefully its true.

[blackbeld]

when home arrives, 360 days are over, dead, live = dead. no more have to pay $50 for stupid life service. PS3!!!!!!!!!!!!!! is the winning team..

[PS3-rape-XBOT3SHITTY]

"PS3!!!!!!!!!!!!!! is the winning team.. "

DAMN RIGHT

[CaitSith]

And uhhh..Sweet news!

[Stallone1993]

Whoa, apparently another guy spilled out something where you can share the beta with 4 friends. That guy either is getting fired or doesnt know jack about Betas.

[grashopper]

I heard GameStop was doing that if you pre ordered Socom. You sure it was home?

[N4M3L355]

A lot of the people answering phones for SCEA are morons.

PROOF

[themyk]

i can share my socom beta code with 2 people.

[Ice2ms]

N4M3L355 lol rofl at the video he owned a xbox not a playstation and he got in to a big conversation with the caller. Lol and he said resistance was on Xbox 360 and was a 3rd party game lol.

Still Havent gotten an email on any of my accounts.

[Snake Raiser]

hope so, I want to see if it can touch xbox live. I think that she was probably just joking though. odd that two people seem to match up so well...

[Silogon]

I love when B.S. stories are this easy to sift threw. WOW! This guy is so bad at lying and so bad at coming up with original names for the players in his lies.

"Betty"
&
"Darien"

How about --

"Vixen Velvit"
&
"Thor"

Guy is an idiot.

[Dissidia]

Yeah I hope its true too
the article on N4G that informed us about the U.S PlayStation Home theme application did say the expansion was set for the end of August didn't it?

[Solid_Snake666]

WOW!!!!! If this is FAKE i will send you so much hate mail it wont even be funny!!!

and why would a Sony Rep tell you that you can share games? when in fact thats what they dont what you to do? and what do you mean by "will have a definite answer saturday"

[TheTimeDoctor]

Then Betty exclaimed, “August 26!”

[N4M3L355]

Let's just get wild...and crazy. You have to be into Betty. I told Betty you'd be into her. So, when you see me say yes...or wink. Bye.

[rbanke]

This just made my BS detector burn out from overload.

[Solid_Snake666]

i some what agree

[C_Dub]

Well for those who didn't get in anyway. I for one hope this is true as friends spreading it around may be the only way I or many of us are getting in.

[Stallone1993]

Muahahaha. Do you guys like Girlz with stix?! Well u better be on the lookout over at feedonps3.com

[cglz6]

i like girls with stix!!!

[juuken]

Nooot holding my breath.

[titntin]

The bit about it arriving in america next week is true.
I'm in the UK and got my invite two days ago - was on home for a lot of yesterday.

The bit about sharing is Bull though. At least for the UK service. I'll quote the mail I got:
"Note: Promotional codes can only be used once and only the PSN Online ID we sent this email to will be able to connect to Home"

My wife tried using home last night on her sub account. It starts up and trieds to connect to the service but always resturns an error.

I'm afraid the servcie here in england is very much for the one person who gets the invite. I'd be very suprised if they did it any differently in the states!

[Blackcanary]

You gonna be on today I'm still in Home didn't sign out just stayed and let my character sleep lol.

i got the same thing in My E-Mail to for the UK anyway.

"Home will download to [Games]. Install the software and the Home icon will appear in [Games]. Click this icon to enter Home!

Note: Promotional codes can only be used once and only the PSN Online ID we sent this email to will be able to connect to Home

Please remember that Home is currently in a restricted testing phase, which means that we'll be constantly adding new features and content, and testing the service, over the coming months. As part of your participation, we'll also occasionally ask you about your experiences, and gather feedback, so we can continually improve the service."

So if its gonna be seem with the US like it is with the UK she is full of Sh!T.

I tryed that to when my cuzn was at my house yesterday she wanted to play it and got the same error as you. Hard to make her a character on my account.

[Blackcanary]

Main reason why i say this is cause in the Email i got from Sony this is for the UK remember it says this.

"Home will download to [Games]. Install the software and the Home icon will appear in [Games]. Click this icon to enter Home!

Note: Promotional codes can only be used once and only the PSN Online ID we sent this email to will be able to connect to Home

Please remember that Home is currently in a restricted testing phase, which means that we'll be constantly adding new features and content, and testing the service, over the coming months. As part of your participation, we'll also occasionally ask you about your experiences, and gather feedback, so we can continually improve the service."

If the US is gonna be like the UK then she is Full of Crap.

[AIi_The_Brit]

i have a bunch of people on my friends list from the UK official forums who got in

anyhoo an MVP let it slip to me the full open beta will be out in sept.

[Solid_Snake666]

like i said ill believe it when is see it in the PS Blog

[PureGamer]

how do you get an email?

[beavis4play]

i'm sick of hearing about home betas. yea, i want home and think it'll be cool.......if it ever releases. how long will sony drag this out? and really, enough talk about how sony wants to "get it right". there is also the idea that they need to launch this within 2 years of it being announced! the longer they drag this out, the less fresh it seems. i love the ps3 but this is starting to become ridiculous. i think sony has lost sight of the idea that they have to launch this thing for real at some point.

[TrooGamer]

I dont see that really. Sony have let more users in this week so it must be pretty close. Whats annoyed me and Sony just keep screwing themselves is region locking Home via console region...its stupid to be honest.

Just like PlayTv Sony just screw themselves.

[titntin]

Play TV can only bee a Europe thing as its only Europe that has a digital TV standard established.

I can see home getting stupidly crowded already - if you had everyone in the world in the place Its just not going to work!
Its not so much the limit on how many characters can be in an area, its having to retrieve and store all the information about each and every character in the space that limits how many people can be in any one area at once. When you first enter an area, you can see that the avatars are 'ghosts' while the customized avatar data is read into the system for each person so that each avatar is properly displayed. It doesn't take too long but there has to be limits....and I'm assuming that a place like 'home square' will have many multiple versions existing all at the same time, as it could comfortably only hold a couple of hundred avatars at any one time. I'm assuming the system will cleverly make it so that people on each others friends lists will end up in the same space, and obviously anyone you invite in will appear in the area you occupy, but if I were to message you on here and say I'm in home square, and you were to log on and try and find me without me being one of my friends, I wouldn't be in your version of home square. You can't fit hundreds of thousands of totally customized avatars in one area!
When you actually experience it, and then think about what they are doing, there are a hell of a lot more difficulties involved in implementing it than you would imagine on the surface!

[Stallone1993]

I hope that this is true...I really want beta.

[Dissidia]

Eric Lempel said that Home would release as still in Beta stage but a full robust service this November.

http://gamer.blorge.com/200...

scroll down to Lempel's statement highlighted in blue.

[aaquib5]

Expanded private beta - Summer

Open beta - November

[user9422077]

Sexy betty not ugly Betty

[C_Dub]

America will have digital TV as standard in Feb 2009 so that's probably around the time the US will see PlayTV.

[Jizzle32]

HOME won't be released until September 2009 lol.

[Solid_Snake666]

yea and i bet ur still waiting on that day when the RROD are going to be fixed?

[shysun]

You can now launch games (with a party) from home.

[mybiker]

I just read the news on big site called __mybikermatch.com__,itproved it is true