GDC 07: Home lets you delete people from your world
At Sony's blogger event tonight, Phil Harrison addressed the issue of parental controls in the world of Home. Home will not only utilize the in-system PlayStation Network parental controls, but will offer you the ability to delete users from your view ... instantly. So if some prick is attacking you with flying dongs, you'll be able to have them disappear from your world at a push of a button. "I wish I could have that in real life," Phil Harrison joked.
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maverick_saturn_626 @ Mar 9th 2007 6:55AM
No suprise there, they needed this, unlike games like Habbo Hotel, WOW and FF you can't delete iddiots, just run away from them :( This is good news.
I know I'll get deleted off a few peoples accounts, I have tendancies to go into an annoying mood when I'm bored.
I hope the world is expandable, if its anything like WOW so that you can expand the world and talk to more people sorta like FF, that would be sweet ^^
bootsielon @ Mar 9th 2007 7:31AM
Maverick:
The world IS expandable. It was said that you can in fact build a Palace, God of War style, or whatever you want.
Delive @ Mar 9th 2007 7:53AM
Will there be a limit to the number of people you can add to your ignore list? I know some systems in the past had limits. Also, when you delete someone from your view, can they still see you?
ShadowHawk01 @ Mar 9th 2007 9:39AM
As the father of three young children I was a little worried while reading about being able to upload your own pictures. I hope one of the parental controls allows me to 'block any user generated content and show default textures'.
shase @ Mar 9th 2007 9:40AM
This is a very welcoming point Harrison made. Now parents wont need to start this whole conversation in the first place since he basically ended it. It might be a little bit more tedious if Home is infected with idiots and you will need to delete every single one of them :p
@3 If you dont see them it doesnt really matter that they see you does it? Its like people talking behind your back- you dont hear it so it doesnt really matter. Assuming that person is a total stranger he will probably walk away anyway.
Szu @ Mar 9th 2007 11:26AM
Can I delete them by shooting them?
GRT @ Mar 9th 2007 12:04PM
What they should, and probably will, add is a way to only see people on your Friends list. This would be the best and easiest choice for parents. They could set up their kid's account to have a Friends list of the kid's real-life friends, and then just let them run wild.