{"id":3485,"date":"2011-06-05T19:52:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T00:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=3485"},"modified":"2011-06-05T19:52:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T00:52:46","slug":"welcome-home-not-so-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2011\/06\/05\/welcome-home-not-so-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Home Not So Free?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have never been a huge Home user, but I have to admit that this <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2011\/06\/04\/playstation-home-welcome-back-package-details\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2011\/06\/04\/playstation-home-welcome-back-package-details\/', 'deal from Sony to receive 100 free virtual Home items');\" target=\"_blank\">deal from Sony to receive 100 free virtual Home items<\/a> is pretty cool.  This morning I managed to download many of the items from the Central Plaza kiosk, including the Dragon\u2019s Lair space, which is pretty neat.<\/p>\n<p>I was not able to get all of the \u2018free\u2019 virtual items due to (just a guess) high volume, resulting in frequent server error messages.  I also had one of the \u2018free\u2019 items (some Egyptian sandals I think) show up for $0.49.  Uh, no thanks Sony.<\/p>\n<p>I may be such an infrequent Home user that I do not know WTF I am doing, but I really don\u2019t understand why Sony does not offer a straight up \u2018download all this welcome back free stuff\u2019 package.  Instead I had to load a few items, often hitting retry due to server errors, wait for a \u2018your cart is full\u2019 message, download, and start again.  Rather tedious.<\/p>\n<p>With E3 just hours away, I may try to be a frequent Home visitor, just so see if there are any freebies being given away for visiting different places and watching videos in the Theaters.  Maybe; it is actually easier to just watch G4 and look for content online.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have never been a huge Home user, but I have to admit that this deal from Sony to receive 100 free virtual Home items is pretty cool. This morning I managed to download many of the items from the Central Plaza kiosk, including the Dragon\u2019s Lair space, which is pretty neat. I was not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2011\/06\/05\/welcome-home-not-so-free\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome Home Not So Free?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-3485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-ps3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3486,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions\/3486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}