Comments on: LittleBigPlanet shared user content to be region specific

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:25:44 +0000

WOOO, Japanese Crazy levels all over again!

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:05:02 +0000

http://community.eu.playstation.com/playstationeu/board/message?board.id=b_EN_GAMES_general_lbp&thread.id=3462

By: morriss

morriss — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:52:41 +0000

Got a link, Psycho?

By: Bleak Harvest

Bleak Harvest — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:51:49 +0000

^ In response to the above ^

Aaaaaaand I’m happy again =)

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:00:31 +0000

Awesomesauce (From SCE on the EU forums):

Hi all, as many of you may have heard already in an interview at Leipzig the senior producer for LittleBigPlanet announced that the game is region locked. This is in fact not the case, and all shared levels in the game will be available worldwide. The confusion arose out of regional differences in how moderation will work as there are different legal rules each region have to play by, and at one point this looked like it may require the game to be independent in each region – however this has been worked around and there will only be one region for the game…. a LittleBigRegion.

Apologies for any confusion over this issue, however I’m pretty sure you’re happy with the result.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:54:41 +0000

ecu, most games these days are done on IP. It was done by game region at the beginning though.

By: ecu

ecu — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:00:51 +0000

IIRC Sony have done it before with other games, and it’s done on disc region.

By: Trip SkyWay

Trip SkyWay — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:47:25 +0000

Annoying decision. Is it based on disc region or IP?

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:24:32 +0000

Yer you coudl complain, but who says anythign would be done about it?

If PSN suddenly becomes a paying service, I quit online gaming. Simple as. Apart from TF2 on PC.

By: deanimate

deanimate — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:41:40 +0000

i like pie.

By: FireFly

FireFly — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:17:54 +0000

What do they mean by “region”. BD regions? That’ll be worse….or would it? And I agree with ecu and No_PUDding about the PSN payment thing.

By: ecu

ecu — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:54:51 +0000

Sony would receive a much worse backlash if they suddenly went pay to play, than they will from keeping this in.

By: morriss

morriss — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:43:20 +0000

I’d prefer to pay a minimal amount and then at least I’d have a right to complain when shit don’t work as it should or they nerf certain features due to network maintenance costs.

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:39:43 +0000

I am glad they don’t. I don’t want to pay to use internet I already bought.

I’d prefer buy the magazine. Or let some other chumps do it.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:38:53 +0000

No_PUDding: The demo versions have always had it, but they refuse to say that it’s going to be in the full game.

By: morriss

morriss — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:29:17 +0000

No, I’m suggesting they charge for PSN and thus ditch stuff like Motorstorm demo only being available to Qore subscribers and making compromises on some gameplay features due to server running costs.

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:27:10 +0000

Apparently there is a photo uploading version in the latest build at GC, so it looks like the Eyetoy will avoid beign the only means.

But this, well that’s just silly.

And Language barriers DO matter in LBP, becuase the create will write the instructions and speech bubbles, and will also name it.

Language difference make a huge… difference in LittleBigPlanet.

By: ecu

ecu — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:08:07 +0000

You’re suggesting they charge you to play LBP online just so you can share levels between regions?

By: ElfShotTheFood

ElfShotTheFood — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:03:30 +0000

LittleBigIrony.

By: morriss

morriss — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:46:13 +0000

Then charge for it.

By: ecu

ecu — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:00:21 +0000

I dunno, I don’t think they’re trying to stop people sharing the stuff. It’s not a security measure of anything. I reckon it’s just more effort and expense on their part to have global servers for the uploaded files.

By: morriss

morriss — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:36:52 +0000

Good idea. I’m sure someone’ll find a way until Sony updates the firmware to stop it.

By: ecu

ecu — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:35:38 +0000

I’d guess they’d actually have to go out of their way to make content across all servers. And they just can’t be arsed.

Can we take levels from the PS3 and upload them to PC’s and share them that way? It might be a way of circumnavigating this barrier.

By: morriss

morriss — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:24:26 +0000

I didn’t even know that. I don’t have eyetoy and don’t intend getting one.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:17:02 +0000

It wouldn’t.

Stupid decisions like this and the “no pics unless they’re from the eyetoy” one really take the shine off the game for me.

By: morriss

morriss — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:14:43 +0000

Why would a language barrier make a difference in downloading a level for a game.

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:13:45 +0000

So we EU’s get US and EU content?

It’s a shame, but I guess the language barrier makes a huge difference.

I am fien, Everyone will wnat to play with my levels anyway, I am a veritable foutnain of imaginativity.