Phil Harrison: PlayStation Home griefing, more Home details

In an interview with Three Speech, Sony‘s Phil Harrison addressed certain points about social interaction and controlling their negative effects, including flaming, questionable banter and sexual innuendos. “Griefing,” as most would like to call it, is a negative issue that comes hand-in-hand with the clashing of personal opinions and cultural diversity.

So what does Sony have up their sleeves? They’ve got eyes everywhere, and they’re watching your every move! Jokes aside, Sony has everything planned up for grief control, including strict (and possibly real-time?) monitoring of complaints and issues, including drawing up a comprehensive and “robust” grief inventory forum where these issues can be addressed.

Because collision detection has been removed from Home, physical griefing will be non-existent, leaving anything and everything verbal open to abuse. If you really cannot help be infuriated against someone, Sony will be giving you the “Be gone!” button and remove the guy from your screen. Easy as one, two, flee!

But since we’re talking about getting choosy about what to see, you could go all the way and change the virtual world you’re viewing currently. Just download the purchased background content you want to view, and you can get to customize it in “some unique and charming ways.”

Unfortunately, control of Sony will be absolute, so creative user content will be minimal. After all, Home is a game-related community and shouldn’t be compared Second Life as some outsiders have done. Envy aside, we can all enjoy a breather from fast-paced next-gen games every once in a while, much thanks to Sony and Linden Labs.

Via Three Speech

In an interview with Three Speech, Sony‘s Phil Harrison addressed certain points about social interaction and controlling their negative effects, including flaming, questionable banter and sexual innuendos. “Griefing,” as most would like to call it, is a negative issue that comes hand-in-hand with the clashing of personal opinions and cultural diversity.

So what does Sony have up their sleeves? They’ve got eyes everywhere, and they’re watching your every move! Jokes aside, Sony has everything planned up for grief control, including strict (and possibly real-time?) monitoring of complaints and issues, including drawing up a comprehensive and “robust” grief inventory forum where these issues can be addressed.

Because collision detection has been removed from Home, physical griefing will be non-existent, leaving anything and everything verbal open to abuse. If you really cannot help be infuriated against someone, Sony will be giving you the “Be gone!” button and remove the guy from your screen. Easy as one, two, flee!

But since we’re talking about getting choosy about what to see, you could go all the way and change the virtual world you’re viewing currently. Just download the purchased background content you want to view, and you can get to customize it in “some unique and charming ways.”

Unfortunately, control of Sony will be absolute, so creative user content will be minimal. After all, Home is a game-related community and shouldn’t be compared Second Life as some outsiders have done. Envy aside, we can all enjoy a breather from fast-paced next-gen games every once in a while, much thanks to Sony and Linden Labs.

Via Three Speech