PlayStation Home open beta day: last-minute reminders, patch 1.03, how to download *Update* open beta hits snag, ‘Not far off now’
Sony has just announced that the launch of PlayStation Home has been delayed… Naw, just kidding. Sony’s not that cruel.
Open beta for PlayStation Home will indeed push through today, and Home community manager TedTheDog has given some last-minute updates for all parties concerned, whether you’re an existing user (new patch!) or a new one (notes on how to download Home).
*Update* Home hits a snag. *Update2* “Not far off now…”
Sony has just announced that the launching of PlayStation Home has been del… del… delayed…
Naw, just kidding. Sony’s not that cruel.
Open beta for PlayStation Home will indeed push through today, and Sony’s in a mad dash to get everything in working order before they finally flick the switches on. (Here’s looking at you, trigger: let’s hope the servers don’t crash as they did with LBP.)
Home community manager TedTheDog has given some last minute updates for all parties concerned, whether you’ve been around for the closed beta, or if you’re going to be a new participant to the Home service. Here’s TedTheDog’s public message:
- Technical updates are progressing and as you have probably seen the 1.03 patch is available for existing users already but the service remains unavailable whilst work is carried out
- Service should be back up everywhere early PM UK time although theres no specific time as theres a long list of actions being worked through in Europe, America, Asia and Japan
- New comers to the service will find the Home icon on their XMB once we activate it. You wont have to look for it, it will be easy to spot and will appear under PlayStation®Network. However, if you are online on your PS3 when we activate it you will need to restart your PS3 for it to appear. Watch these forums for news on when that is. It will work like Folding@Home in that the icon will be there and you’ll download the service when you first select it.
As of writing, there’s still no sign of Home going live yet. We’ll drop word as soon as it hits. Keep it posted here! We’re coming Home!
*Article originally posted Dec 11, 2008 at 08:15AM
*Update* Ok, ok. I know I only meant it as a joke earlier, but… could this recent update from TedTheDog mean an actual delay in the launch of PlayStation Home Open Beta? Keep your fingers crossed. TedTheDog’s updates appended on his original forum post are as follows:
**Edit 3pm**
Still progressing nicely, now on the testing stage. No eta still as I wouldnt want to guess how long it will take for each region to verify its elements are working but we’re getting there.
**Edit 3:15pm**
Not there yet, the testing is still going on, but I wanted to mention a couple of other things that need clarification.
The Far Cry 2 and Uncharted spaces will not be available in our region today as the localisation and testing phase is not yet complete.
They will follow on later. Additonally the Diesel and Ligne Roset content will be added next week at the same time as the Red Bull Air Race.
**Edit 4:25pm**
Testing complete and a couple of technical problems have been found. We need to iron these issues out first and I’m waiting to hear how long that might take (I’m not qualified to even guess, its very technical). Apologies, I know you all want to get in but we must get these things right. And please remember, this is a beta and today is our first step into the Open Beta environment and what we’re doing today is part of the beta process itself.
*Update2* More from TedTheDog:
**Edit 5:55**
Apologies for the delay in an update, you may have noticed a PSN outage in the last hour. Things seem back on track now although the outage delayed us a little we are moving again. Hope to have another update soon.
**Edit 8:15pm**
Very sorry about the delay here. The PSN outage really set us back a while but things are picking up again. And apologies for the delay in updates, I had to get home to continue with this. Looks like we’re not far off now though.
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