I think Tycho and Gabe sum it up best:

“this is what happens when your marketing department tries to make a game.”

Why is it assumed that if a social technology is created, people will flock to it? I feel like Sony had plenty of time to get this idea right, namely by not creating PS Home in the first place. I am perplexed that the concept even made it past the drawing board. I suppose the discussion went something like this: “Lets sandbag players with advertisements and micro transactions disguised as a social space for PS3 fans”. If Sony was aiming to make a Second Life competitor, they sorely misjudged their target market. If they were attempting to compete with Nintendo and Microsoft’s avatar systems, then they went WAY overboard.

Everything you could possibly want to accomplish in PS Home takes an exorbitant amount of effort, so why bother at all? That is assuming you can even connect to the servers. Dear Sony, next time you launch something, test it (and don’t use the beta as an excuse).

It’s these little things that start to get me worried about you Sony. Get your act together. For the first time ever, I am a little embarrassed to be be a PlayStation fan.