Well I only heard about it recently but if anyone hasn't heard about it, this is a must! It is going to blow my mind when it first comes out, hopefully I get to beta test this baby.

Well in relevance to the clan the benefit of all of us using it is unmeasurable! I think once it comes out it should be required to use it really. To be able to have a vitrual clan "base" where we can all hang out and discuss strategy and play minigames and show stuff off is awesome. Also it will be allowed to join directly in teams from Home to games like CoD4 and others.

I personally can't wait, anyone else as excited as I am?

You can read a nifty article about it here if you haven't heard about it:
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/770/770998p1.html


or watch the two part youtube demo from E3 (or GDC not sure which):
Part 1: http://youtube.com/watch?v=UCWYG2syuhI
Part 2: http://youtube.com/watch?v=I8ore7INF4Q&feature=related


or the trailer:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kyquAXKeEI0


or Phil Harrison interview:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PtG57c2a81o

They are well worth watching!

 

 

 

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Yeah thats pretty amazing, I remember seeing a report on this a while back but there wasn't too much detail on it at the time. I think its a great idea and it will open up a lot of opportunities for new features with this kinda of virtual world. The idea of having your own custom avatar would be nice but I wonder what kind of limit you can have on it. There would obviously be people who are going to abuse this with displaying profanity on there if there is no strict control. Remember counter strike where you can spay custom tags? Then someone got the idea of straying porn and what not on there it was OK if you didn't mind but there could of been kids playing the game. Voice chat is on there and it will be interesting how its implemented there. Open chat to all would be a problem if there are too many speakers, maybe some kind of filter system would be put in place.


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The only thing I found disappointing was you have to purchase some more cloths to wear, screw that I will just wear plain clothes lol. It wasn't mention if you could design your own cloths or not either, Probably not and also the face creation edit feature looks OK but it would be nice if they gave you more control over models and skinning. How about a little tattoo or scar across the forehead? Or what about a black eye you got from having a scuffle in the arcade the other day? Or if you can lose teeth that would be awesome.

Theres way too many things to comment on it its worth having a look for sure.

 

 

 

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Well there is always gonna be that small group, or maybe large, who are there just to put the great experience around. And knowing how strict SCEA is with everything that may result in a lawsuit they will be sure to be the consequences high, maybe even suspension of PSN accounts. The voice chat is most likely going to be a confirmation thing, as in; if someone wants to chat with you over voice they will click a little thing asking you to accept their feed or something. Just what I think they are going to do with it is all.

You don't HAVE to purchase new clothes. They will give LOTS of stock ones for free, and you get free items for achievements made in game. But there will be special items that if you want you will have to pay for, one of their three ways of keeping it free. If that's what it takes to keep it free then I have no problem.

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