You can view the page at http://www.yourplaystationhome.com/content.php?r=304-US-Save-Hamster-Freedom
My personal view is that any items that are a key part of the Home core community should not be removed. If anything Sony should be seen to support the core community and items like this should be moved to an community tab in the stores, be it at sale price still or for free.
wait so they are seriously considering removing all these items in the sale, ugh looks like I might have to buy a couple items.
Its been confirmed that the items in the sale will be gone for good after it ends. This is why it will have a bad effect on a big community group, eg no new members will be able to join. Marketing should speck with an community manager first before they pick to remove items, has a community manager would know if an items become a big part of the home community itself and would point it out to them.
One would hope that this will not go. Lately it seems they have people running things that only count the dollars associated with them. I would hope that Locust or Glasswalls will intervene to stop this. I would also hope they make a statement to that effect soon.
I am shocked that Locust or GlassWalls didn't think about this beforehand. Surely they must know about the Hammies and they should have thought "Maybe we shouldn't get rid of the Hamster Costume...." when they first realized that it was going.Some people may be saying "It's just a club", but Hamster Freedom and its branches are MORE than just a club. The Hammies strive to make Home a better place and represent themselves with good public relations and make large group appearances in support of events that Home is hosting, such as the PStalent finale that is tomorrow. (And the Hammie leader darkan12-nl was even given the job of the Announcer for it!!) That has to prove that the Hammies are well known and liked by the general public.There is no reason why all of these items should be wiped out. There should be plenty of space for new without having to get rid of these. Seems to me that someone high up the totem pole with their thumb up their yoo-hoo said "I don't want these anymore, put them on sale so we can squeeze out the rest of the money and we'll get rid of them after." without thinking or caring about how it may effect the community. :/
I think that some of these items/spaces are removed due to contracts for the items running out. Sometimes it is impossible for the companies who own the rights to the item to renew (if the company is out of business or is no longer supporting Home. Even though it is a Sony published item, it seems that all these items are subcontracted to other companies. The best we can hope for (if this is the situation) is another company stepping up and making a similar item. I am all for keeping the original if possible, but I think in Home there sometimes has to be an alternative.
I find it hard to believe they won't modify this and keep it. If they don't NA Home isn't about community.
It's in the NA Forum. Glasswalls made a post saying the sale items are for a limited time and that they will be leaving. The Hamster outfit is one of the sale items. http://community.us.playstation.com/message/36421866#36421866
Glasswalls as seen the post about Hamster Freedom and the Hamster outfit and has passed it on to the people that need to know. Hopefully that means the Hamster outfit will stay, after all its an SCE item so contracts should not come into it.
i think they shouldn't get rid of any of the outfits. the ninja and pirate outfits are on the chopping block also . alot of the t-shirts i could understand but the costumes are the best way for us to make unique looks for our avi's. that is like all those shirts they had for the home redesign most of them i will never put on my avi cause they just look bland. also what if you are like me right now without the money to buy some of these things right now but when got the money to you would, like the king knuckles outfit or witch doctor?
First the Snowman head, now the Hamster costume...what's next - the Echochrome costume??? Do the people who run Home even spend any time getting to know the core groups? This doesn't make any sense to me at all. Home really seems to be taking a wrong turn lately. I don't mind changes if they are for the better but stuff like this just confuses me and makes me think the people in charge are out of touch with the Home community.
Awe I Liked The Hamsters And I'm Glad I Bought It Long Ago , But Yeah They Shouldn't Remove Items Like These. Seeing As The Items Will Be Removed, I Need To Do One Last Run Through On The Sale Items Before It Vanishes ;__;
Surely that must get rid of items due to lack of sales, cant believe theres any other reason, so at the risk of stating the obvious, the items that are going dont sell, if they did they would keep them.
Thing is Home not a real store, so it dont cost to keep them in the store. But it will be sales based, but at same time they likely want to free up some space in the stores database system so low sale items will be picked.
that might be true gary but i can bet as soon as they get rid of them if you wear something from those items a noob is going to to ask where you got it from. that is like last year while i was wearing the santa outfit i was asked ever ten sec. where i got it lol.
I hope for the sake of Hamsters and Hamster lovers all throughout the PS Home Community that we will be able to save the Hammie heads. I have spread the news to gather support on all forum sites to which I belong and as soon as I get home, I will be sending PSN messages to all my friends and tell them to forward as well. Hopefully this united effort by everyone will help and this item will not be discontinued as it is necessary for new members for one of the long time groups of PS Home.
