Comments on: Social Networking On PS3?

By: M

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:19:30 +0000

wall of text which I still do not understand even after my 5th read.

@Zen

You’re older than me, do an easier translation of the above text ty.

By: Brian Barker

Brian Barker — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:04:56 +0000

I live in London and if anyone says to me “everyone speaks English” my answer is “Listen and look around you”. If people in London do not speak English then the whole question of a global language is completely open.

The promulgation of English as the World’s “lingua franca” is unethical and linguistically undemocratic. I say this as a native English speaker!

Unethical because communication should be for all and not only for an educational or political elite. That is how English is used internationally at the moment.

Undemocratic because minority languages are under attack worldwide due to the encroachment of majority ethnic languages. Even Mandarin Chinese is attempting to dominate as well. The long-term solution must be found and a non-national language, which places all ethnic languages on an equal footing is long overdue, An interesting video can be seen at http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_YHALnLV9XU Professor Piron was a former translator with the United Nations

A glimpse of Esperanto can be seen at http://www.lernu.net

By: M

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:12:35 +0000

join me in the US Home. hehe.

By: Ferolare

Ferolare — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:31:09 +0000

I tried it out and frankly, I’ll rather turn on my PS3 for online gaming rather than online networking.

I have yet to explore it thoroughly, given the downloads I have to make before being able to access the other zones, but it comes across to me as “boring”.

By: zenical

zenical — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:48:32 +0000

@ kanahilator: Would like it if I could easily access the US Region, since I have some friends who were trying out.. and me.. but we were locked to our own regions T_T

@icystorm: nope.. I’m not asking for anything more. Just wanted to explore together with other region friends I met while playing but it was REGION LOCKED.

By: IcyStorm

IcyStorm — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:57:24 +0000

Region locking may be better in this case; bandwidth issues and culture/language differences are key here.

Add-ons, well, Sony has to pay for the servers and bandwidth somehow, right? It’s a free service that was NOT promised when you bought the console, so be happy for it.

By: kanahilator

kanahilator — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:38:48 +0000

Hmm so they made it region locked? I guess that makes sense because otherwise there might be too many people or cultural issues, but it would be nice to be able to cross regions. I don’t really like Home that much, it’s too boring so far. I’ll wait until there’s more things to do in it like the arcade rooms. No way am I paying for anything in it, haha.