As a consumer, I also find this very annoying.
I led me to stop playing the game, and I haven't looked back on it since.
I tried to play some custom levels, and they were great. Except so many of them started being taken down, I end up losing interest searching for them.
The game frustrated me on so many levels. All I wanted to do with the game was not to actually play it, but to make levels and dress up sackboy and just interact with others to show off my sackboy. Of course that isn't easy to do because most of the good stuffs are locked, and I'm terrible at playing platformer. I can beat a level, but I can't collect all the stuff, which quickly frustrated me from not being able to tinker with sackboys to the level of design freedom as I want and thought I would get.
Then I tried to make a level, so I checked what other users created. That's when the game sucked me right in. I couldn't stop playing and checking out many unique levels people created. So many levels have those "can't believe this kind of design is possible" moments.
It really motivated me to just grind my teeth and unlock all the stuff to make a level of my own.
Then all this happened. It led to me quickly losing all my interest in this game.
Not sure why Sony haven't done their research. They announced this game in 2007 GDC. As soon as this game was shown, everyone immediately thought "Hey I can remake those Mario levels!"
If they did little research, they should've known what fans will do. Coming up with preperation for that would've been ideal. They had a year to come up with a plan.
and who's bright idea was it to make most stuff locked? So much focus of this game was based on creating. I'm sure huge number of people don't give a **** about playing the actual game, like many who also don't care about creating. Not allowing people the freedom from start to me feels like major flaw. I'd understand if unlockables were developer made objects like vehicles, but all the tools given to the players to make those stuff was avaliable right from the start. That would've been plenty enough encouragement to play the game.
Considering how much hype Sony put into this game and how much they were riding it, it is incredibly disappointing and frustrating to see it dying out like this before having a life. Already I'm seeing reduced number of community support for this game. Many people stopped trying to make levels anymore and last time I checked, the number of community created levels were down to very unimpressive numbers.
Maybe after all the dust is settled, I'll check out the game again. Lucky for Sony, that I never sell my games. As of now, the conflict between Sony and LBP community is too ugly for me to join in.
Way to start off web 2.0, but then again I should've known it won't go well when the man preached all this left Sony.
One more thing to add....
Why the **** would other game companies get annoyed by this? This is like free advertisement. No matter how well LBP tries to replicate Mario levels, it will never be Mario. It actually makes you want to check out the original. And if Sony don't like other companies using this game to advertise their own game, then Sony is STUPID, because bigger the community of their own game is, the better it is for them. Everyone wins if they don't get over-protective with their own license and let it be more free. Marvel is saying they want to be more liberal with their own license and that's a good thing. More cameo appearance their stuff makes, the more people will be interested in original stuff.
It was chance for everyone to win, but thanks to lack of preperation and careful thoughts, everyone loses.Â
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