We all remember the PS3 generation with its wonderful and distinctive games, one of them is the interactive and social game PlayStation Home, but it disappeared because the servers were officially stopped, but with the game officially stopped, there was something in common among veteran PlayStation fans, that is, the refusal to stop the game, and it seems that there is a developer who wanted to revive the game again to make up for what happened 8 years ago.
IGN met with the developer of the PlayStation Home-like game Destination Home, Nagato, who intended to make this project entirely non-profit to re-engage the game's audience and attract new audiences to something they might not have previously discovered. Not only was the original PlayStation Home game discontinued, but all player data about it was hidden. But that didn't stop the developer from completing his ambitious project to recapture PlayStation fans' enthusiasm.
After years of data collection, the game appeared in the last two years as a purely solo experience, but since October 2022 the game Destination Home has been released with a beta version that allows players to reunite and play together and play in the same worlds as the original game after it disappeared 8 years ago, in fact this achievement represents something heroic for the developer and for the game.
Fan reactions to the game have been overwhelmingly positive, especially from veterans who stuck with the original. One wrote that he was happy to be playing the game with his wife of 11 years and two children. Regardless, Nagato is working hard to complete 100%, saying he'd be happy to see the game teased on Twitter with screenshots everywhere, and that the developer would stop working on the game and look back on it with pride.
The passion of independent developers is something that still fascinates us in the industry, especially if the project is entirely non-profit—that is, everything that drives the studio is love and passion, nothing more. The developer also mentioned on the game's Discord server that they are working to make the PS3 platform of great interest to current players with this game. It's worth noting that the developer hasn't worked to bring the game to PC and has no plans to do so.