Home Could Remain in Beta Indefinitely
Jack Buser, director of Home, was kind enough to join us for this podcast.
He let Fahey, Adam and I drop in to his surprisingly stark virtual home on the Playstation 3 were he talked about the future of the free virtual world and surprised all of us by saying there’s a good chance it will remain in beta indefinitely.
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@excel_excel: No, you can change software without it being in beta. The problem is that beta testing has very real connotations of "it might not work properly and we make no guarantees about the quality of the experience".
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@Kuro: Jack Bauer has 24 hours to get home out of Beta or the world will end!
Yeah were fucked
excel_excel
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Man I totally thought it was a podcast with Jack Bauer. >.<
Kuro
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@marlblank: While I think the Google Apps for BusinessEnterprise idea is a great one, I think its funny that they want to charge $50 per user account each year for access to:
Gmail (beta)
Google Calendar (beta)
Google Docs (beta)
Google Video (beta)
and so on....
Yes, I know you are really paying for extra support and storage options. But could you blame a business for balking at paying that much a yea for an "unfinished" product?
(Side note: I volunteer at a non-profit soup kitchen from time to time to help them with computer/network stuff. Google Apps for non-profits is awesome in that particular case, it saves them from paying for email hosting and it saves ME from having to keep a mail server maintained for them!)
NateN
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I gave up just before the 20min mark, the guy was seriously winding me up.
NecronomiconUK
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@shaunomacx: ArcadeMania.JPG: Is Friendster still in beta? They were in it for what seemed like forever, long after most of their U.S. users had migrated to MySpace and Facebook.
Dirk Dorkelson
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@venkat55: I was thinking that too. The Kotaku guys were probably shaking their heads thinking the same thing. It hardly seemd like they were interested in his PR crap because they were just dancing, scrolling the menu, bumping into each other, etc.
kadaj24
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Does this Home guy ever stop overexaggerating everything??
-"The arcade games are SO popular"
-"Dancing in Home is SO SO popular"
-"We are coming out with TONS of new arcade games"
This guy seems too fake.
kadaj24
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@Powerslave:
or he should be pissed off at geico.
kneehighspy
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@AbeniHalomitosis: Lol, good one. :)
kadaj24
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Are you guys using the Home voice chat or the Home party chat? Sounds like a telephone conference call to me...
NecronomiconUK
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@ApocalypseVII: Well Adam, that is a fantastic post
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@Bii-Nii-Wii-Nii:
How does something "free" fail?
*looks at your name*
NVM, forget I asked.
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