From ps3fanboy, it says that HOME will be region-locked so you can only chill with your friends if your in the same region (unless you go to each others apartments, in which case its not region-locked).

Game Space, Movie Theater, Home Space and Marketplace will all be region locked.

thats kinda gay but at least they can still hang out in your crib.

I currently have the BETA and its not all that. Right now tho, we only have around 0 - 3 people playing at any given time.

Once it comes out, it'll be a lot bigger. I want the ability to have what sony said they "might do" and allow you to advertise in your apartment for PSN Money. Thatd be sweet.

No I hope they don't. There will be a bunch of spammers and everything. They rig up an apartment, advertise something there, and invite people there who they dont even know and make a $hit load of money for doing nothing. You'll see people all over saying "Visit my apartment for a free tv." or something like that.

as long as we can chose what reigon, cause i live in the UK, I have a US ps3, my cousin has a JAP and my other mate has UK. Only people I game with really.

Yeah. I dont know about you but i can only speak english.

i heard that it was your region lol

Its because of racism in advertisements and stuff like that.
Or if it has like an american company and not a european one, its injustice.

Mr.TurnSignal wrote:

Dude region locks is to keep you from getting pissed off which i know alot of you will when some japan dude comes along and cant speak english whos trying to talk to somone who only speaks english. Whats the point of meeting someone in japan when you cant speak there language!? Plus what are you gonna do when you cant read an ad because sony has it in a diff language!? Thats why we have region locks. To keep people to there own language and sense HOME is gonna have so many people in one place they are gonna need to diff severs in diff places. Japan servers in japan. USA servers in USA and so on to keep ping down.

well what if they implemented different "continents" so that depending on ur region, you would always start there and your HOME would be there, but if you want to u can go to the other "contintents" to play with your friends from other regions.

Mr.TurnSignal wrote:

Dude region locks is to keep you from getting pissed off which i know alot of you will when some japan dude comes along and cant speak english whos trying to talk to somone who only speaks english. Whats the point of meeting someone in japan when you cant speak there language!? Plus what are you gonna do when you cant read an ad because sony has it in a diff language!? Thats why we have region locks. To keep people to there own language and sense HOME is gonna have so many people in one place they are gonna need to diff severs in diff places. Japan servers in japan. USA servers in USA and so on to keep ping down.

Actually, its all based on the advertisements.

"We were given a pretty in-depth walkthrough of the current state of Home, including a couple of game spaces (images of those later), during which we asked the bloke as many questions as we could think of. Top of our list? Making sure that we would be able to meet up with our friends all across the planet in the various public spaces. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Home's public spaces are going to be region-specific.
If you want to meet up with your pals from abroad, then you'll be able to invite them into your apartment, but warping into the game space to bowl or play chess is not possible. This is allegedly to make sure that each region receives an "experience most suited to their tastes" as well as, no doubt, to keep advertisers happy. The last thing they want is Europeans seeing an advert directed at Americans."

http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/07/16/hom … on-locked/

Last edited by JoN- (2008-07-18 23:44:13)

haha good point really hope it does come it will be great

Lol dont be one of those people. trust me.