If some of you don't know, Free Realms, the SOE developed MMORPG with 10 million+ [PC] users, will be showing a live demo for the PS3 at this year's E3.
So after reading this news, it made me wonder about a recent comment Buggie made. Which basically stated that he thought Home will be shit canned in around 18 months. Now, while all the stuff he listed sounded very plausible, this latest Free Realms development makes his statement seem all the more reasonable.
Free Realms
-an already well established game (Not social app.).
-1 year: 10 million+ users (probably has multiple accounts, doubt it's as bad as PSN)
-Level up system for characters, multitude of classes to choose from
-quests and events
-not a beta
Home
-a buggy, glitchy social application
-2 years: 12 million+ users (including a shit ton of multiple accounts)
-crappy avatars with bad customization options
-dance offs
-hiding behind a beta tag
I could go on and on, but I'm not going to for now.
My point is, with two social networking M&M game thing things, do you which do you think people are going to gravitate towards?
Do you really think Home is going to last if they don't get their shit together? Or after a year and a half, and Free Realms has 10-12 more million users while Home is still pumping out t-shirts, will Sony finally put Home out of its misery?
I'm trying not to make any rash conclusions, but it's hard not to wonder about it.
What do you guys think?
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