In an effort to keep
Home "accessible to everyone," Peter Edwards told Bit-tech.net that there would be limitations on costumes for your avatar. "The idea is to keep it as accessible, mainstream and friendly as possible," says Edwards, the executive producer for
Home. "If everyone's walking around dressed as orcs or stormtroopers or whatever, then you lose that welcoming, accessible element that means Mum, Dad and your sister might get involved as well." Really? The largest MMO in the world may not have stormtroopers, but they certainly have orcs and other strangely dressed characters and yet, they don't seem to have any problem pulling in
over 8 million subscribers. Maybe it's not a
fair comparison to
Home, but it's a bit of a stretch to think that costumes on avatars would assuredly prevent
Home's accessibility for all audiences. If the game was extremely buggy or just plain "not fun," well
that would be more of a root cause against its widespread accessibility. At any rate, what do
you think? Would
Home be more or less accessible with fully customizable avatars?
