chicagotops wrote:
Familiarize yourself with items and how they work. Dont jump into conclusions as to how an item might work based on its name which it clearly is. Lots of limitations in home. And options are just starting to open up. Cause its labeled as a swing which it is doesnt mean it has an animation. Nor are there any such animations involved. Lucky we now have the option to see how many slots an item takes up. If u see a one slot item dont expect anything from it besides what its function should be. Common sense pays off here.
As for dance tiles. Yup, ndreams has good bundles. Loot ghostbusters has em but a couple. The minibots space store has a variety. And theres an active item dance floor disco in sony originals.
Except in many cases, most I would argue, familiarizing yourself with an item and how it works is not an available option, not without hoping to find someone who has it and is available to show option. That's like going to a car dealer and instead of seeing the car in person they hand you a pamphlet with a single picture and a paragraph with only a basic description, and expect you to either buy the car or go try and find someone who already owns it to show you. Seriously, its a flawed system that Sony and the other developers should fix.
The fact is even without a proper preview of an item, it would be extremely reasonable and easy for them to add in the description if an item is animated or not, and to describe the animation. I suspect they chose not to in hopes that whatever sales they lose from those who don't want to take a chance, they will make up for it for those that do. Personally I find that sales technique to be appalling and one that in time fails due to disappointing customers.
Its been said and requested for on countless times (but no Home rep has ever acknowledged it) that the store descriptions and previews need to do a far better job conveying to the customer what exactly they are purchasing before anyone purchases them.
For furnishings, they absolutely need to have a preview that conveys the actual size of the item, like showing a default avatar next to it.
For active items and outfits with special animations and or R1 actions, they should have an option to watch a short video clip of the active options or very specific descriptions of it.
Now some developers, like Lockwood, make it easier to familiarize us with their products by creating spaces in Home to see and sometimes use these items before we purchase them. And sometimes they will release videos on the blog and on places like YouTube showing some of their latest items in use, but these are the exceptions not the rule.
The point is that they could help solve this long standing problem with Home by just being more specific in the item descriptions. The question we all should be asking is why won't they even do that in most cases?
To me, Home simply needs new leadership and management.
- Home has become a special needs child, and Sony is the negligent parent. -
