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PlayStation Home to Lose Voice Chat
Now You'll Have to Read How Bored Everyone Is
by Sean
PlayStation Home debuted last week to much fanfare but not much excitement from gamers. Sure the world of Home looks fairly impressive, and the interface is remarkable for its level of polish and simplicity, but really, what's the point? If I wanted to play Second Life, I would have just bought a PC in the first place. But I digress.
Sony has announced a scheduled maintenance period for Home beginning tonight at midnight (PST) in order to upgrade from Home 1.03 to 1.04. Home will be available during the maintenance, however once it is complete, voice chat will be disappearing from the world of Home. There's no word in the announcement as to why the decision was made to remove this feature, but Sony is assuring us that voice chat will return at some point in the future.
For both those of you who are still playing Home and will lament the loss of your voice chat features, Sony recommends purchasing a PS3 wireless keypad. That way you can spend $45 to use a free service. Good work Sony.
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Comments
Damn, now I'll have to have virtual sex the old fashioned way. a/s/l?
I don't know why anyone would be surprised by this. Sony's been doing a really good job of taking steps backwards in this generation.
Still above Nintendo in terms of communication.
It's a feature, not a bug.
That'll move a lot a lot of keyboard attachments....
All these @$$holes on the internets and PSN, and stuff. F' them! Sons of 8i7(|-|3$! Why do we need beards, anyway? Seriously, why?
(I know my 1337 is a little rusty.)
that is kind of a weird move..
Gotta love the Sony hate.
Jump on the bandwagon
@Bastardometer: *does the robot in his $4 pants*
Ha ha, Marc. Looks like I don't need to invest in that headset after all.
.... they ******* every last word you say I can't even say ****o to anybody....
Im a big girl... I can handle reading swearing... i think that theyre trying to figure out a way to mod people from swearing... why not? they **** off everything else... either that or theyre trying to make it "better"...good work sony!....love you