+100,000 invitations to Playstation Home today

Back on the official SCEE forums, Home community manager TedTheDog writes:

"Today, Friday 21st, over a hundred thousand invitations will be sent across the SCEE region and next Thursday the 27th another larger batch of invitations will be sent.

If you are lucky enough to get an invitation then please note there will be load test event on each of the two evenings.

For everyone else Open Beta will not be far behind."

[pp]

A invitation for the DADDY of all flops (HOME).

[Silogon]

What, Too Human's got a beta invite going out?

[crimsonfox]

CRACK A BOOK OR DO SOMETHING

[TOO PAWNED]

"Silogon

Yes WE had it, and it got TOO PAWNED

[Sir_Ken_Kutaragi]

Oh, Check your eMails xBot Zombie Cavemen Lemmings...
You should have your Yearly Reminder to PAY for 'xBox LIVE'!!! ;-D

DO IT!!! Or Micro$oft will HUNT YOU DOWN!!! ;-D

+ I had a go on the New 'HOME' update(Japanese beta), it's a shame they got rid of the PSP tho??? Oh well, it's FREE so it's all good;)

+
BEST bit of HOME for me was the 'NAMCO' Arcade Machine i could put in my HOME!!! ;-P
(Hope you can have that World-wide, and not for just Japanese HOME)

[Rick Astley]

They call me the whale, because my penis is big..like a whale.

[Miraak82]

go enjoy thos 5 hour games lol

[Arsenal4Ever]

okay lets hope we get in.

[will11]

Lets all remember what the guy did on webcam yesterday, dont take anything for granted.

[dj_funky]

finally got back in home yesterday after the update and they really updated everything such as the menu and a couple of more dance moves.. lol. i like that the bowling alley shows people bowling now. only thing i was mad about was that i had to re-create my character again. didn't take too long but still... all in all HOME is almost good to go. can't wait to see more ps3 users on when it's out.

[jackel 92]

Yup, I got in last night

[Tomdc]

they better not group us in the same places as foreigners, I only speak english and don't want to be drowned out by spanish and french.

Britain only please in my room! I'd be quite happy to be with americans and canadians and anyone else that shares my lnguage, but no! were cut off from the rest of the world.

YES! Just read the age limit will be lowered to 16! Now I have a chance!

[yog-sothot]

@1.4

it's an honest comment... sad but honest. A bit narrow minded but you're still quite young so I guess it's understandable. Anyway, I don't know if Home will be linked to country but if you don't speak spanish or french (or chinese, japanese, wathever), I don't know why you should bother : just don't speak to people you don't understand, they'll probably won't talk to you either

[Tomdc]

y is it narow minded? I have no way of communicating with them! If the home space i'm in is shared with all of europe they'll probably be about 1 in 5 english speaking people. I can't speak a foreign language well apart from a small bit o french. Maybe I should have worded my first comment a bit better, but surely you can see where I'm coming from? I would expect that other european countries feel the same. It's just because the home space has a limited number of people in each main area so I would have less people I could actually chat to.

I'm happy talking to people from anywhere in the world as long as its possible for me to hold up a conversation with them.

[vhero]

nobodys getting in the email servers went down! nobodys getting in now until monday only a handful of emails actually got sent out :(

[thereapersson]

Great... immaturity will flourish!

:-/

[nbsmatambo]

I just got my BETA CODE!!

=D, but i cant play till tomorrow ='(

[pain777pas]

Got my code by email just now form SCEA so this in not just for Europeeans.

[infamousinfolite]

I got my beta code from SCEE.

[Nineball2112]

I got my beta invitation tonight.

I dl'd Home and I started it up just to check it out but I didn't have much time to really try it.

I'll be messing around with it tomorrow a bit!

From the little bit that I saw, I thought it looked pretty cool...

[ThanatosDMC]

Screw "we"... I hope "I" get in!

FREAKIN UPDATE!!!

I Got IN!!! The invite was sent to my hotmail account. There are twelve letter/numbers separated by dashes. 3 groups of 4 characters!

Might be because i had a PS underground account, then i merged it, i also downloaded the theme.

[arika]

i got in finally. i didn't believe it at first, but now i do. ok! it's a good thing i'm off tonight, nice. i'll see you guys psn akira2107. i'm in!

[memots]

wouhou got the email. ill install tomorrow.

[elorm9]

It's just the SCEE region...

[riksweeney]

Well, that's good news for the EU region :)

[nbsmatambo]

im in USA and i got one =D

[Damphear]

just got in and i have accoutns to all of sonys stores.

[ThanatosDMC]

I can confirm to you that Home invites are not only EU. I'm in the US and i got one. But for some add reason i cant get pass the Initialising sight.

D5027 server error.

[pandabear]

100,000 is fairly hefty, with an even larger amount being invited next thursday - This is effectivley the start of the Open Beta they just don't want everyone downloading and accessing at the same time and crashing it.

[Fishy Fingers]

Not really, the beta is still fully in a closed state. Open doesnt mean by invite only. They're releasing X number of invites so they can test X number of servers for load testing. The release of the Open Beta (PSN download for everyone) will be in direct relation with the load test results.

[Danja]

I hope I get in....since I got shafted with the KZ2 beta..:(

[thetan5000]

(USA REGION) ?

[nbsmatambo]

we get it today since i go mine...

[Atomic]

Yeah , I just got my code, downloading now.

[Hellsvacancy]

But ill take Home if i get in

[Zip]

didnt ted state also, that it was only multi language people who got invited? .... must suck to be french ;D

[Mr_Potato_]

I'm French and I speak English. French bashing makes you look sooooo smart, you know.

[ThanatosDMC]

Most people understand a second laguage. Sure they cant speak it but they can understand. Hell, i know 3 fluently (English, Spanish, Tagalog) I'm wanting to learn either Japanese or Chinese.

[jkhan]

I still haven't got an invite, I am in AU region:(

[god_o_war]

yea tru that does AU fall under SCEE?

[TOO PAWNED]

To bad that just like KZ2, biased sites and staff that works for them will tear HOME appart, it doesnt matter how "OK" it might be, they will spin it into something negative.
"WHy i want to do this balblabla !" You dont have to use it, thats best part, its not like IN YOUR FACE YOU HAVE TO USE HOME!
Its there, use it if you want, if not just avoid it, that simple.

[Traveler]

Why do people always act like there is some conspiracy against the PS3? That is so silly. Reviewers and game journalists give their honest opinion--sometimes it will be positive and sometimes it will be negative. I own both consoles and there are times that games or services for either console get a review that I don't agree with, but I don't see any kind of universal bias towards any console. Everybody has their own preferences, that is all.

[GiantEnemyCrab]

"Its there, use it if you want, if not just avoid it, that simple."

Funny, that is how I feel about Avatars on the Xbox 360 but that hasn't stopped the bash train. I wonder if I should call it a grand conspiracy?

Anyway, after all the crap I've heard from the Sony gang on the NXE and Avatars, Home will be some bitter medicine.

[mikeslemonade]

Stop waiting for betas and start working on your LBP levels so I can play them. Think about me and not you and your Home.

[thetan5000]

It's crappy, but my very first and it works.
Search for OMOSHIROI FARTS..thats the name.
I'd appreciate it if you left me a comment!

[LeShin]

Ok Mike...

Go check out my 2-player split screen race level, inspired by Sonic 3 versus mode!

It's called: Temple Traverse

[mercenaut]

whats with all this "i hope i get in" s**t, i thought HOME was really supposed to be FULLY up and running by yesterday? >angry face<

[Fishy Fingers]

Well then you need to stop believing everything you read on forums. Sony havent given the Open beta a release date. Only, "comes when it comes".

[mercenaut]

whats with hostility, i asked a question, get over yourself, you troll

[Fishy Fingers]

Hostility? There is none. I simply answered your question, your reading my text, the tone you decide to give it is your choice. But I intented no hostility, perhaps you need to be a little less sensitive and just be thankful for me being the only user bothered to answer your question.

[HighDefinition]

That`s hostility and YOU seem to be the "troll"

Get a Clue.

[thereapersson]

You shouldn't believe everything you read online. How many times have you read a rumor, only to have it turn out to be not true, and you end up disappointed or angry (as it's apparent)?

Just a little heads up to you, is all.

[THC CELL]

im done with nxe is crap
bring on home

[Traveler]

Home looks like it could be good. But you're an idiot. NXE is awesome.

[dale1]

i agree with you whats not to like about home,its free so take it or leave it,people crack me up 360 gets a rip off wi avatars and a new dash board ,problem is you pay for that like it or not.this is free whats not to like

[caffman]

it was a free update for silver or gold members! And the avatars are free to create as well.Please get your "facts" straight

[blackbeld]

@caffman You payed for life so it's not free.. You stupid dumb boy..

[Traveler]

NXE is really good. If you guys had Xbox 360s you might know that.

MS ripped off Nintendo Miis? Puhleese! Nintendo didn't invent avatars at all. Besides the fact that Miis look like crap--they don't even have hands or feet and their bodies are generic round bubbles and their faces are expressionless. They are nothing alike. If the 360 avatars are ripoffs of the Miis so are Home's avatars.

BTW, you don't pay anything to get NXE so you guys are full of it. Anybody with an Xbox 360 and an internet connection gets Xbox LIVE silver for FREE, which allows you to get NXE and use most of its features. It's true that you have to pay like 3 or 4 dollars a month to use the Netflix feature and for playing online, but then again Xbox LIVE is still a much richer and full-featured service than the PSN so it's well worth it.

[GiantEnemyCrab]

Spoken like a fishhead. The NXE is free, don't like avatars don't use them. Home and NXE shouldn't be compared since NXE is a dashboard and Home is a second life wannabe. We should compare the XMB to the NXE but a fishhead wouldn't want to do that because the NXE stomps a mudhole in the XMB.

[caffman]

"caffman You payed for life so it's not free.. You stupid dumb boy"

now, lets translate that into English.
"Caffman. You PAID for LIVE so it's not free.. You stupid dumb boy"
Says the person with no grasp of how to press spell check. NXE is free for EVERYONE. Not just the people who pay for Live. So if you are saying that buying the console and paying for your internet doesn't make it free, then Home costs more than NXE!

[Sparx_4_4_]

dang my friend has a spare one because he got in during the early stages but my ps3 got YLOD getting it replaced by friday next week

[Sparx_4_4_]

im new how do you get bubbles and score and stuff would appriciate an
answer?

[Arsenal4Ever]

posting positive PS3 posts on PS3 articles and negative PS3 ones on 360 articles. /sarcasm

You just post good stuff... what you think and what not.

[Fishy Fingers]

Be a useful, responsible member and others will give you good feedback and increase your bubble score.

Try and provide something to the topic (be honest), don't get swept up in all the "games" that go on and you'll be fine.

[thereapersson]

That doesn't matter sometimes. Just look at me...

[Vip3r]

I should be getting mine today. Just a shame I have to wait until next week before I can use it. :(

[Ggame]

It's may also other region.
My friends have got invitation of PS home from Japan ID today.

[Zip]

please update us guys if any of you gets a beta so we have a norfiy about when they pushed the button

[Meus Renaissance]

Considering it's SCEE, I wont believe it till I see the email.

[Zhuk]

Years late and failing to deliver on the hype and promises, the release of HOME for the PS3 signifies everything wrong about the console which is now universally recognized as a disaster of unparalleled proportions.

With the release of the New Xbox Experience, which has been heralded as the greatest software release in the history of console gaming, effectively giving Xbox 360 consumers a new console through the power of software, the Xbox 360 is already a generation ahead of Sony who continues to languish behind its rivals in every endeavour.

HOME will be remembered as one of the biggest disasters in the history of home entertainment for years to come, no wonder why consumers are flocking to the Xbox 360 in droves with the new NXE.

[OmarJA]

Speaking of disasters, like how NXE caused RROD ?

http://www.n4g.com/xbox360/...

More like next RROD experience...

"Jump Out"

[Magic_The_Celt]

Yeah and zhuk dont forget

Amazing quality AAA Games, only on the Playstation 3
http://secondstorygamer.com...

Oh yeah and the Xbox 360 is already considered the biggest hardware failure in history and will still be in years to come, over 33% fail rate, my god. Theres no over electronics let alone console in history with such a pathetic excuse for hardware, terrible terrible broken piece of kit.

Jump out.

[Marquis_de_Sade]

I'm not really a fan of the 360 after 2 RRODs and a GFX card failure, but Zhuks' posts are amusing to read and at least show an understanding of the English language, unlike PP et al.

[Mr PS3]

So lets pop one of them Bubbles

[I_am_rushin]

Why is there so many idiots like yourself saying, "home has been delayed for 3 years," "Home has been planned since 2001," "bla bla bla."

Get it through your head!!!!!!

Home was announced GDC 2007

Set for launch "fall 2007"

Delayed twice for ONE YEAR to make it "fall 2008"

That's it. These are straight facts and no debating can be involved.

[Traveler]

But you have to admit that it has been delayed a lot. We have been waiting over a year and 8 months for it, after several false starts and delays I might add. I hope it will be good and I am looking forward to it, but the NXE is awesome and it is here right now.

[Arsenal4Ever]

it'll definitly be addressed by e-mail.

[Zip]

well the odds are pretty good so off speaking, 100.000 devided with the userbase ... I dont know we´ll just need to see I guess.

Just a guess, Ted stated that only the most loyal ps3 users would be picked, along with if they are speaking a second language (german, spanish ect.) so I was thinking, what if Sony concentrate on the 60gb early adopter users?

[Equinoxe_7]

Good old Zhuk, where have you been, your sound bitter, well home is o.k, and I don´t have to press the Disagree botton, we all know you don´t like the Giant Crab.

[SSCOOLCHEA]

Why home gets bash so much ? Uno.....Its a fkn free app so if sony says wait you wait . it make no sense crying about sh.. you have no control over . there games to beat an home is just the sideshow . Let them fix what they have to fix and make it perfect. some the n4g folks in here have to stop and breathe for second and realize there is good games and apps for everybody

[I_am_rushin]

Finally someone that gets it.

It's not like it was a service promised for the PS3 at launch, it was presented as a bonus, free app.

[Magic_The_Celt]

*checks email*

..........damn

[SKINS4LIFE]

THEN YOUR A HOME-O

[Rick Astley]

The only funny thing here is the face your mom made when you were born. She threw up all over you in disgust.

[GiantEnemyCrab]

You need to (tm) that Home-O line hahaha.. Oh look Rick Assley! Looks like you've caught your first Home-O skins4life.

[HardcoreGamer]

I Got the killzone beta, so im happy as can be

[Arsenal4Ever]

who keeps on giving everyone disagrees? Just go play on NXE and leave us be.

[Arsenal4Ever]

invites will rpobably be setn out this evening

[Rice]

lame I really want home ..

[callumcrippler]

any one know what time the emails are being sent?? i read the other day that they had a couple of ideas on how to pick the beta testers, any one know how they picked the people??

[CR7JUVE1897]

Called "UdirtyApes"

If anyone is interested

[Chrissy]

100.000 people eh? After the first day 50% will quit realizing just how lame and embarrassing the HOME experience actually is and they are just suckers being duked into testing the gamer version of second life. 25% will remain making anti xbox stile apartments and 20% will remain just to run around naked in thongs and with vibrators shoved up their sony tattooed asses. 5% will be xbots making huuuge 360 posters and possibly build the xboat in the marina. The remaining 0.0001% will actually pretend to like it realizing sony could fire them otherwise. The year of the ps3 will be complete

LOL HOME LOL HOME LOL HOME LOL HOME LOL HOME LOL HOME

[NeonSkull]

you suck, lol lol lol lol
grow up son, grow up

[ThatCanadianGuy]

"How lame and embarrassing the HOME experience actually is"

And let me guess..NXE is so much better right?
With you're little Mii-atars lol

GTFO

[Traveler]

Chrissy, that was mean. But I have to admit that it made me laugh.

[Zip]

we migth be when we get our damn key to our home lol

[firetaw]

then we overload the servers and break home. then we have to wait for home another 6 months. that would be lame indeed

[RealtorMDandDC]

japanese..beta...whooooopie... mofos

[Zip]

ahh damn, I guess im not one of the happy 100.000 then

[divideby0]

The 1.0 version has really stepped things up. I am so glad they didnt let more in the beta with the previous versions.

[bviperz]

I'm probably 1,000,000 on the list....

[zonetrooper5]

I wonder if I will get an email to the Home beta, would rather have a beta key to the Killzone 2 beta instead.

[RealtorMDandDC]

But its cool to finally see what the hell HOME is all about...

But damn it I need to be in Killzone..I have had a pretty good beta streak going..LBP, SOCOOM, and R2..

[PotNoodle]

Is a proper beta though, a beta where you talk to the developers to help them improve the game, a beta where we are allowed to see what changes have been made due to the user feedback.

LBP, Resistance 2 & Socom betas were all hype machines.

[cwir]

I agree but not entirely. First R2 beta was a proper beta. Second was a hype maker.

[Miraak82]

whatever, days when I'm just bored enough to play games I'll just stroll around in home in different room maybe some of those 18+ rooms lol, I wonder if they'll have local areas , I've played MMO's I've always enjoy the social aspect of them

[aggh im on fire]

I actually have a real life funnily enough.

[L Ronald Hubbard]

So many tears in here.

Was NXE actually that bad? Dam...

[Dragnipur]

got my code....!

[Arsenal4Ever]

nice lie. Its delayed till Monday he just confirmed it.

[protekjv]

I got it too.

[Traveler]

I still don't know very much about Home. I hope I get in, so that I can try it out. I think it has potential and hey it's free, so what the heck.

[KEVERS]

I don't even know what home is.

[Meus Renaissance]

I called it this morning. Never take SCEE for their word.

[MaximusPrime]

i got in..... 3 months ago lol

yea i was in closed beta.

[KingGhost93]

i got my qore invite yesterday, and i got my japanese home invite today!! damn im lucky!

[protekjv]

Just received an e-mail with the code. See you guys later....

[socalr6]

I just got the invite e-mail from the Playstation Underground on my I-phone!!! I'm in The Peoples Republic of Kalifornia

[nirun]

i'm a canadian ps3 user and have just received an invite :)

[Nodoze]

Just got my invite!! Downloading now (only 77MB).

[socalr6]

Last night I unlocked the STG-44 in CODWAW (sickness). Just now get invited to the Home Beta and my "friend" just called saying the sickest Pure Kush is in from the dispensery. What a great Friday in Kalifornia!

[aesmith1988]

Finally got in :)

[caladbolg777]

I just received my e-mail. I'm in.

[supremacy]

i got an invitation but my pc isn't working properly at this time fvck im gonna have to leave reset it and and boot up again talk to you guys later. also i hear they are still giving killzone 2 beta codes god this is turning to be a great holiday season.

nxe, home and more killzone 2 beta codes? man oh man im going nuts.

[Figboy]

i just got my HOME beta invite today! i had my fiance set it up for me while i'm at work, so i'm sure she's going to make an avatar, since that's her favorite part of ANY game that supports such a feature (she wasn't impressed with the NXE Avatars, surprisingly enough).

i guess i'll get to finally see for myself how HOME is working out once i get..wait for it...Home. man, that was awful. i apologize.

[mirroredderorrim]

I got in.

PSN: Pooplio

I don't know what to make of this. I am a little excited. :0

[ReBurn]

I've been on a lucky streak lately, I guess. I've been in the Resistance beta. I have the Killzone 2 beta I never bothered with and now I have the Home beta.

[Solid_Snake666]

HOME IS SHAREABLE!!!! 1.0 COULD BE SHARED just thought i point that out

[Sanhlami]

wooo got an invitation. Off to try some HOME.

[SonySoldierEternaL]

just got my code

BALLIN!

[YogiBear]

I'm in :)

[bestbacon]

Amen Brothers, you will see me with the username bestbacon :D

[LowCarbs]

just got mine, didnt check till almost 6 but it was waiting there

downloads only 77mb.

cant wait to see everyone else on.

[LowCarbs]

just kidding, the dl is only 77 mb

it takes up 3000 mb on hdd, kinda wild.

[hamsterfist]

I got the beta code and I am away from home for the weekend. No home for me until Sunday..... oh well

[psman012]

I just recieved one!

[neogeo]

And my PS3 broke! yellow light of death. Its a launch system so I gonna pay $ 150 for sony to fix it. I let it get to hot and dusty:(

but its ok because that includes shipping.

[Xlll]

WOOOOOOO i got mine! see ya on HOME!

[arakouftaian]

For the 1time, I got in home, I'm in killzone beta too since the privete beta I got in all the betas lbp, socom, R2, I even got tHe preview of the MS;PF. , thanks you sony thanks , if someone need help on getting in betas n etc pm me on my psn arakouftaian I will be glad to help.

[BaSeBaLlKiD721]

GOT MINE!!!

as what ive seen so far, home puts NXE in shame

[akaFullMetal]

I got into home, sweet, and im in the U.S

[Hercules]

just got my invite around 4pm est!!! i am so happy now...im going home!!

[gabeh1018]

so i check my e-mail tonight and lo and behold!!!

i got an invite into the beta !!!!!!!!

[OldGamer]

Got into beta tonight as well. Tried it out for about 2 hrs. Looks really good and handles smooth for me.

Seems a bit limited what you can do though. I was expecting access to more things. Maybe that'll change over the weekend? It is just a beta though, so who knows.

[pain777pas]

My thoughts exactly its pretty sparse but it does work well once you go from the central to mall to bowling alley to theatre whatever. There aren't any stores I'll check it out tomorrow to see if there are any updates.

[C_Dub]

But I can't connect to the servers, really disappointed with this.

[mt]

it has been more than year since they delayed it to fix it and still has problems .

[OldGamer]

Sorry to hear that. I didn't have any server or loading problems at all the whole time I was on. I did see some people talking about slow loading and whatnot, I just didn't experience any.
I have a really good internet connection but i don't know if that has anything to do with my experience or if I just happened to be on at a good time.

[pilotpistolpete]

Me and my friend both got it.

[Mhassan]

i just got invited too and i am right now installing it..can't wait to check it out..

[mykrlz182]

Good luck signing on it's giving me connection errors, you would think after all the delays this crap would actually work for longer than a day!

[sajj316]

same here ... connected once in 2 hours

[jelydonut]

well.. just bought only the last core.. plus a wack of psn games over the last year.. but i got a invite.. in canada.. only issue is it keeps losing connection to the server to download it..

[jkoz]

I got in! Great success. I didn't download any of the Home themes or anything from PSN so take that as you will.

[schmeidenkamp]

played it for about 15 mins and turned it off.
b.o.r.i.n.g.

[LeGenDx]

you actualy get to meet new people,play bowling,pool,chat,dance, etc. so many things to do and its a beta.

[Neo604]

The Matrix

[The Milkman]

I just got my code. This is freakin cool for a free downloadable interactive community on your ps3.