Yet another batch of Home invites go out

by Andrew Yoon { Nov 26th 2008 at 5:15PM }

Yep. Looks like the Home "closed beta" isn't really too closed anymore. Today marks yet another massive update for the long-awaited PSN service. Check your e-mail as you may have received a code for the beta. Once again, Sony appears to be stress-testing the servers. Join tonight at 8PM-10PM (5PM-7PM PST) to partake in the stress test. Considering the rapid expansion of the beta, we wouldn't be surprised if Sony really did open Home to everyone by year's end.

[Thanks, Jason!]

Tags: beta, home, invites

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)

rohan @ Nov 26th 2008 5:19PM

i got my invite!!!! so happy

josh @ Nov 26th 2008 7:28PM

not exactly a reply, just wanted to up this up where someone would see it.

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thats the key i got sent for the home beta, havent used it, not sure if its linked to my psn id, but if they aren't have at it. I have no plans of using home so the invite might as well be put to good use.

good luck

Jake @ Nov 26th 2008 7:34PM

you can't do that, i heard its specific to accounts or you get banned or sumthin

i got in the over week, its all exciting for like 2minutes, then the loads bore you, and then actually using it is boring, hope more things get added, just nothing to do with it and half the stuff don't work :(

bonini @ Nov 26th 2008 9:26PM

...checks email...
I got accepted to Drexel University with a $20,000 a year scholarship
...no beta key though, dammit.

Anticrawl @ Nov 26th 2008 9:40PM

For those of you who didn't get into the beta we have a live stream of one of our staff playing around in Home and answering any questions you may have.

Check it out - http://www.8bitfix.com/

Anticrawl @ Nov 26th 2008 9:41PM

For those of you that didn't get into the Home beta check out our live stream of the Home beta at http://www.8bitfix.com/

It's at the bottom of the page and we are answering any questions you may have on Home while playing/streaming Live.

ric @ Nov 26th 2008 10:26PM

It's lame... If you don't have a job, family, school, g/f, wife, pet, computer, friends, any video games, and you don't have any desire to do anything except sit motionless and staring at a t.v. pretending to interact w/ others in a fake community with other ppl of like mind, you might like it, but if not, it's frickin lame........

Lars @ Dec 1st 2008 2:43PM

I got in. I gotta say it looks promising, but it's hard to tell what it will be like with such a lack of detail in the beta.

Runs well though, and I guess that's the whole point of the beta... remember, it's not a trial/demo. They're only inviting us to do load tests and find/fix bugs.

So, I hope they have more things ready for the release than is actually in there. Also, they really need to have pool animations. It's pretty strange to see 2 people just standing next to a pool table when they're supposedly playing. Nice screens everywhere, now just show more than one continuously looping ad. I hope the theater actually shows movies instead of ads. And I hope we can launch more games than just Warhawk. Warhawk is great, but not all my friends play it.

Actually, the Warhawk community is what I'm really looking forward to. Getting together in a war room and then jumping into a game together... now that's cool.

Lord_von_Punx @ Nov 26th 2008 5:23PM

yea i hope i get my qore annual invite i have been subscribed since day one :(

sean @ Nov 26th 2008 7:18PM

i think those already went out. you should call up sony customer service.

lorddshadow2 @ Dec 1st 2008 5:28PM

no i'm waiting for mine too...

blkant @ Nov 26th 2008 5:28PM

of course, i didn't get in, why would i get something everyone else on my buddies list has.........

sean @ Nov 26th 2008 5:29PM

i think its pretty obvious that it will definitely come out this year. unluss they find some huge bug that will blow up PS3's it'll be out sometime in december

sidewinder12s @ Nov 26th 2008 5:31PM

Ya, i got mine a few days ago

Geoff @ Nov 26th 2008 5:33PM

Wow! i actually got in! got it at 11:11 ha!

Woz @ Nov 26th 2008 5:34PM

I still haven't received an invite. The amount of money I've spent in the PS store would put a child through college and I downloaded the theme. So much for it being anything other than random.

Jerses @ Nov 26th 2008 5:39PM

You tell me!!! i have spend like $100 on the store. This invitations are totally random or maybe its because im from Mexico and HOME will be region locked when out. But oh well, its not like we have to wait too much for this to come out...play with it for less than a week and forget about it because there still good games to play this and the next year

grunto @ Nov 26th 2008 5:49PM

I hear ya man, same here.....

PSN:Eprim @ Nov 26th 2008 6:17PM

hey jerses im from mexico and i got and invite so its not region locked

ClarkyCat @ Nov 26th 2008 6:11PM

I know what you mean, I wish there was some form of intelligent choosing for who gets what invites. Launch day purchaser, spent a bank bailout on games/PS Store yet no invite (for ANYTHING, let alone Home), but someone I know who got a PS3 last month asked me recently what "Home" was because he got quote "a beta key or something" for it. Unbelievable! Think of all those keys gone a-wasting.

Akio @ Nov 26th 2008 6:34PM

You won't get an invite if your psn account says you're under 18, the open beta will only be allowed to people over the age of 16 I think.

James @ Nov 26th 2008 11:05PM

Which is why I welcome the future prospects of trophies determining invites to games/events. I know people who might play like an hour of a random sports game a week and then log out got in.

Mr Bunky @ Nov 26th 2008 5:35PM

Guess Sony lied again about the public release in 2008. The Wii will have home available for all users before the PS3 does.

Sora57 @ Nov 26th 2008 5:35PM

Let's hope the mall has a store open soon.

nate @ Nov 26th 2008 5:35PM

yaaay i finally got one, pritty stoked!

TK @ Nov 26th 2008 5:39PM

They have been sending invited the past two days. I got one on Monday and a friend on my PSN got one yesterday.

Daniel @ Nov 26th 2008 5:42PM

Got one Monday. Unfortunately, my internet is out right now.

Don't bother with "send it to me lulz" posts, I'll still be using it.

GrimTheLost @ Nov 26th 2008 5:43PM

I squealed when I got my invite.

Sten @ Nov 26th 2008 5:43PM

Anyone got one spare a spare key?

Lucky

ThinkIcouldburn @ Nov 26th 2008 5:45PM

Don't worry about not getting in yet. You're not missing much. You can play a few games that are fun for about 10 minutes, then you can rearrange the 7 different items you can have in your home, or choose from the 6 different wallpapers.

Once they really open up the service, then it'll be worth having. Right now the beta is definitely intentionally crippled.

Sten @ Nov 26th 2008 5:57PM

Thanks for your reply.

I'm part of the EU group so maybe tomorrow I'll get lucky!

Really looking forward to getting in!

DedBeet @ Nov 26th 2008 7:17PM

Totally agree. So far, there's almost nothing to do in Home. Pool tables, Bowling lanes, and arcarde machine are almost always full. What happened to the game spaces.

DeathroW @ Nov 26th 2008 5:49PM

EU Invites go out tommorow (27th), near 200,000 of them.

TedTheDog said the OpenBeta is very close, i bet it'll be out next week.

TuxBobble @ Nov 26th 2008 5:53PM

Yet again, I seem not to be included. Oh well--I'll make do with what I have, I suppose...

warlock7 @ Nov 26th 2008 6:02PM

Where the hell is the 2.53 update we were told about yesterday?!?!?

rohan @ Nov 26th 2008 6:07PM

what does that have to do with home beta invites??

warlock7 @ Nov 26th 2008 6:08PM

Nothing...

Sorry to be off-topic, but unless they post an article talking about how they appear to have been wrong... well, it's as good a place as any.

Kalmaholic @ Nov 26th 2008 6:05PM

Yeah I finaly got a beta invite! Got the home one last week actually! :)
Hopefully more come along the way!

Doomstryker @ Nov 26th 2008 6:13PM

Didn't realize it until today but I had my Home Beta invite sitting in my email account since last friday. Wasn't really looking for or expecting one.

Eury @ Nov 26th 2008 6:22PM

Oh wow... I got an invite and I've only had my PS3 for about 3 months.

Nor have I bought anything from the PSN store... made a few downloads.

I did buy things for Metal Gear Online... and I got Mirror's Edge the day it came out... hmm... that's all I can really see for my inclusion

Gaucho @ Nov 26th 2008 6:29PM

I've had my ps3 since release, i'm signed up to PS underground and have spent over $100 on the PSN store. . . the only thing i got was an invite to the LBP beta 2 days before it closed (but who didn't get into that?). So this is just another swift kick in the balls for me. thanks Sony.