Comments on: A quick tour of Sony’s virtual world – Home

By: Toby Williams

Toby Williams — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:27:21 +0000

Can you be the “Best Gary”?

Please don't tell me you are not Australia's self proclaimed Best Gary. I cannot recall any other Gary, globally, that use these words – eg: UK's Best Gary, America's Best Gary etc etc:

Regardless – this is a personal view about the quality of your salutation and others can ignore it. Off to publish 'Best Toby on Stirring Possums – or something like that'

Best Australian Toby Posting Here Today.

By: Toby Williams

Toby Williams — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 06:27:21 +0000

Can you be the “Best Gary”?

Please don't tell me you are not Australia's self proclaimed Best Gary. I cannot recall any other Gary, globally, that use these words – eg: UK's Best Gary, America's Best Gary etc etc:

Regardless – this is a personal view about the quality of your salutation and others can ignore it. Off to publish 'Best Toby on Stirring Possums – or something like that'

Best Australian Toby Posting Here Today.

By: Orion Keynes

Orion Keynes — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:04:58 +0000

Very interesting concept. If Sony can integrate a lot of their services etc into this, it could become really useful. Almost want to Get a PS3 just so I can go jump around in there.

By: Henry Harris

Henry Harris — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:19:39 +0000

My understanding is that Sony is restricting Home access across different regions of the world. I'd be interested in a discussion of what Sony's rationale is for doing this. Is it a hardware limitation, advertising ploy or what? Personally, I think that If this is technically feasible it would be great way for different nations to get insight into each other's culture. It might even turn out to be the best thing about virtual worlds, and possibly even contribute to world harmony. I'd be interested in news about this. I suspect this will be a developing story.

By: Lowell Cremorne

Lowell Cremorne — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:32:36 +0000

That's a really good point Wolfie – graphics aren't everything but they do make for a more appealing experience for people.

The furry issue is pertinent as well – I've always thought the more varied the avatar customisation options the better.

By: Wolfie Rankin

Wolfie Rankin — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:10:07 +0000

I'm not convinced, can you be what you really want to be, is this stuff built by you or sony? can you be a furry? I'm human in real life, I don't want to be one in a virtual world. but then again, I wouldn't buy a console anyway. a virtual facebook? oh great :/ [hates facebook and it's clones with a passion]. It's lovely to have better graphics, but graphics alone is not why I use secondlife… it's the great community which draws me.

Wolfie!

By: Gary Hayes

Gary Hayes — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:07:19 +0000

OK timeout – but the header on your blog reads

“The Metaverse Journal – Australia's Virtual World News Service' – it used to be called, I think, SLOz (Second Life Australia?). Please don't tell me you are not Australia's self proclaimed news source. I cannot recall any other sites globally that use these words – eg: UK's Virtual World News Source, America's Virtual World News Service etc etc:

If you were a government department officially mandated to provide this service then fine, but again using 'Australia' and selling ads in my mind is not ethical. Regardless of where the money goes (we all have hosting costs etc).

As regards complaints – let me put this gently – you are the only blog I have ever complained about in the comments. So I hope you feel special.

Regardless – this is a personal view about the quality of some of your output and you and others can ignore it. Off to publish 'Australia's Leading News Source on Social and Game Virtual Worlds – or something like that'

Best Gary