LittleBigPlanet™ News Site - Postcards from Leipzig: LittleBigPlanet Team
By SackBoy103 Posted on : 8/22/2008 2:00 PM

In case you've missed it, the PLAYSTATION.BLOG has more Games Convention 2008 straight from Pete Smith, Senior Producer of LittleBigPlanet.

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Ah. That explains the wacky German cat. I have to admit though, I'd much rather demo LBP all day than do the job I have. Wink

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We got alot of great LBP news today !!
looking forward to Sackboy Plushies and merchandise !
and yeah it does explain the German cat lol (: !

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Great news? Read this:

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=195937

FIX THIS SONY. FIX THIS!!

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They had a great LBP set-up at the convention.

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By the way, I think the game is too far along now to implement a worldwide server. Give up already, I don't want to be playing a bunch of Japanese written levels.

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Some UGC from Europe: http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/1231/lbpmadiv4.jpg

please fix it.. if impossible, please clarify why

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"I don't want to be playing a bunch of Japanese written levels."

Er, why not? I mean I can see not wanting them to delay the game just to change this and I can see not thinking it is too important...but why would you actively NOT want to play Japanese written levels?

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first sticker i'll put on a level lol: http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/1231/lbpmadiv4.jpg

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You guys just screwed yourself big time with the hardcores for region locking the content. Better correct this ASAp or address the issue directly, lest you want millions of bitter fanboys at your door in the morning.

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First the Playstation Eye requirement for uploading and now this region locked crap.

good way on not fllfilling your promises.

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"Er, why not? I mean I can see not wanting them to delay the game just to change this and I can see not thinking it is too important...but why would you actively NOT want to play Japanese written levels?"

Maybe because I'm pretty sure you can put WORDS on objects. I want to read English words.

Besides, they said they can move levels if they want to, so you'll still get the best levels. AND you'll still be able to send levels to friends WORLDWIDE. So booo hooo.

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What a let down Frown

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dammit that sucks. i live in canada wich has a a population of about 35 million and only a small pourcentage of people are gonna get the game so i won't see as much creative projects as id hoped compared to americans or europeans

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dude it's region A or B lol... i think you got the same region as US

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fine if it is

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Is that a sackboy *sacky* i see?

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Ok, i've send the news to PSFanboy as suggestion and they answered me this:

Thank you,
We actually heard slightly differently at Leipzig, so we're waiting for a clarification from Sony. Hopefully, LBP won't be region-locked.


OMG i hope CVG was wrong!

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First off, just like pretty much everyone else (I guess) this news wont stop me from getting the game the very day it comes out.

But honestly, advertising with the whole "Play, Create, Share" thing, this is quite a bummer.
I really hope there has been some misunderstanding, there should be no region limits regarding the sharing of content, that is one of the strongest points of this game.

Anyway, still looking forward to the game, and I hope can get some kind of statement on this one, thanks.

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Which region is Venezuela (South America) classified in, A or B? Still though, not really happy about a region lock in the first place and like almost everyone else said, thats really bad advertisement on saying "Play. Create. Share." Its more like "Play. Create. And sorta Share."

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http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?sku=270109

hey everyone if u havent seen the gamestop video yet its on the link i put on here.

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while i am a little disappointed in the lack of "the people of the world all united on one Little Big Planet," it does not begin to deter me from loving this game to pieces.

and there are sooooo many reasons to want levels crafted by the Japanese:
1) they are some of the most dedicated gamers on the planet
2) Japan is one of the current trend-leaders in quality artistic/graphic design
3) they are a very determined people; they throw themselves into an idea/project and often don't sleep until it's done
4) their pop-culture is just so fragging adorable.

but i'm a huge fan of the Japanese, so these are, undoubtedly, my personal preferences.

thanks

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well said plebeianprint and same here about being a huge fan about japanese culture that is where i REALLY want to go

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eh!!! region locking!? that sucks.... hope they don't, but it's probably gonna delay the game, and yeah it's probably in development too far to add it in... but japanese levels would rock xD

Playstation eye needed for uploading is a bunch of crap though.

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oh, and nice postcard =]

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and now they are saying there are global servers now so its confusing.

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Region Locking is a bit of a let down. Since, ya know, I'd love to see if Mr. Kojima ever decided to make a LittleBigPlanet stage. Or perhaps even a Miyamoto stage would be thrilling to hear about and try. Heck, does this mean us in the US can't get any of the levels you Media Molecule guys create at home? And vice versa you can't see ours? That all makes me a sad panda.

Still, that's definitely far from a deal breaker. I'd just like to be able to see the full scope of all the worlds people create.

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@Psudonym
haha, i totally agree, even with the region locking, it's still a great game xD

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and i still would get it the day it hits stores xD

and i am obviously overposting (in my standards xD) so i guess i'll stop...

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@musashi1290: thanks for that, hadn't seen that one yet!

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So....

What's all the fuss about the servers being region locked?

Is it true?

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If you already pre-ordered can you redeem the Kratos in-game costume now incase you loose the promotion code.

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Well MM are the developers I'm pretty sure any levels we create or they create will be able to be moved around on the servers by them so we could still get levels just not directly because of the region lock. But either way, lock or not, I'm still going to create and play until my hands or eyes bleed, whichever comes first

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RPGmaniac - Yeah. Region lock or not, I'm going to rock this game for a very long time. I am not as worried about the region locked levels as I am about importing pictures off an external storage device.

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It's not really fair to call it LittleBigPlanet if it's region locked, if you want to region lock it, please change name to LittleBigContinent, thank you.

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No custom music....
Picture uploading only for PSEYE....

If region locking is true, then I'm no longer psyched for this game.

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"First the Playstation Eye requirement for uploading and now this region locked crap.

good way on not fllfilling your promises."

QFT

Way to ruin a game before it's even released, thanks.

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is that even a reliable source... im sure MM will be putting this rumor at rest.... i sure hope there isn't locked regions... maybe you have to load a different server... but i really hope there is no locked regions

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Please don't region lock content!

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region locked r u kidding me?

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http://community.eu.playstation.com/playstation
eu/board?board.id=b_EN_GAMES_general_lbp


No worries people. No Region Locking. Yay! Laughing

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Yeah, I just read that. Thank goodness! I was worried a little there.

But still... I want word on being able to upload our own pictures without having to buy a PS eye! C'mon MM! this game is nearly perfect! that feature would just set it over the top!

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From that link you posted EthaN2k7: "however this has been worked around and there will only be one region for the game.... a LittleBigRegion"

So one LittleBigRegion, for one LittleBig(Happy)Planet!

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ILOVETHISGAME \ " /(^_^)\ " /

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we need official word from sony
they promised us something great and limitless and region locked means LIMIT

but i hope what ethan2k7 said is true

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Pete Smith needs to come out and clarify this issue that he created. From an Australia/New Zealand perspective, it is CRITICAL that this region locking mallarky does not go ahead.

MM have come up with an absolute gem. Please SCE, don't screw this one up! Pete Smith, I call on you to make a definitive statement once and for all so I know whether to cancel my pre-order or not.

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its not region locked anymore sepijooon or dessy

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Yeah, I read the post on the UK Forums as well.... However, Pete Smith made the two conflicting statements, so he must issue a statement to the media one way or another.

Surely everyone knows better than to believe a 'post on a forum somewhere'... no matter how true it may be.

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There was a little confusion but theres no region locking so be free to play anyone's levels.

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Source?

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Just read the news, I love you guys again Tong

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Dessy, the guy posting is a SCEE/MM employee, you can trust his word and its not just 'some forum' its the Offical Playstation Forum. So just be happy about it Laughing

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Just read the news! Thanks for clearing that up!

Now all you need to fix now is the Playstation Eye problem.

/love Smile

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so no region locking? sweet! hope next is the playstation eye uploading, and i guess the whole game would be totally rockin!

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Will we be able to uplaod pictures from our hard drive or any other external source (MiniSD card) into the game? I'd really rather not have to take a pictures of everything I want to put in my level with the PSeye. ):

Can't wait to play the game! Thanks!

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yeah im pretty sure i herd you can or maybe you only be able to put pics from PSEYE

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No region lock is great news for us. Thanks MM. Free jpeg in HDD Please !

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Wait, so you can't import pictures if you don't have a PSEye?

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Ethan2k7 - well then there won't be a problem with Pete Smith issuing a press release to that effect.

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rjcvilla: Nope, apparently they changed their minds at some point during development. Official claim (or at least the one I've read) is that the the thermometer would fill up too fast if people could just import their own pictures (file sizes and so on).

Personally I find that claim a bit shaky, but who knows really (aside from Sony and MM).

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Anybody here received the Kratos SackBoy voucher yet?!?

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no, i havent gotten the voucher but i heard somethin about gettin it a week before LBPs released. i dunno.

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When I walked into GameStop yesterday and pre-ordered, they immediately gave me the Kratos voucher.

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I mailed the store where I bought it asking if they would get these codes. If I get one I'll give it away to someone who really wants it. I'd rather use any of the hundreds of other costumes. Much more fun.

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If anyone wants too add me now don't add AustinAlander, because I made a new one. Add Yensooo instead now Wink

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Does this count as a double post?? lol anyway I'm using this PSN from now on. Add me if you wanna play LBP when it comes out!

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No region locking REALLY means this is a LittleBigPLANET!
YAHH!

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NO REGION LOCKING YAY! LITTLEBIGPANET!!!

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sweeet no region locks little big planet has surpassed all but one expectation curse you playstation eye cruse yooooouuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


P.S. feel free to friend me just say LBP in invite

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no region locks! yay on to the next speculating and complaing about something we dont know for sure about, uploading pics. hurray!

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Yeah, wish someone stepped forward again to let us know that the not-being-able-to-upload-images-from-our-hardrives bullsh*t is a lie. Since we took that feature for granted since the announcement of the game at GDC 2007, that was surely a major letdown.

Maximus was wrong. What we do in life doesn't echoe in eternity. In fact, what we *say* in life echoes in eternity. I can still hear Alex Evans saying:

- I'm gonna show you something very cool that we call stickers. So I open my inventory... And stickers are just images that I could have imported from my hard-drive, I could have taken from my eye-toy camera even.

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@ **************

Yeah I agree. When I first heard that they weren't going to allow us to upload images from or HDD because it would blow out level sizes I thought "fair enough" but thinking about it further, if they still allow us to upload using the PS EYE then what's the difference? We're still importing images into the game either way. And if we could import from or HDD then we could control the size of the sticker anyway using Photoshop or some other image editing program before hand. The PS EYE doesn't scale the file size, it just takes a pic and does it's standard compression on it.

Totally lame excuse MM and Sony. If this isn't patched into the game within the first couple of months after release I'm going to be ******.

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I suspect the only real reason they are preventing players from using images from the HDD is to boost sales of the PS EYE.

Being able to import your own hi-res textures into the game could make levels look infinitely better and would set your level apart from everyone else's.

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@GurtTractor:
You are correct sir. I made an xbox hueg post in the preorder section about my thoughts on that, and I summed it up to copyright vs. PSEye sales. Copyright can -and will- happen with the PSEye only, so it's down to sales.

Essentially,
LittleBigPlanet = Big Seller
PSEye =/= Big Seller
Stickers in LittleBigPlanet = Epic Feature

Tie it all together and you get;
LittleBigPlanet = Big Seller = More money for PSEye

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SO much complaining about stuff you dont know anything about stop WHINING people no ones ever happy anymore.... i want this and i want this ..... well start programing games and make it!! if you've got the best ideas and know how things work put your money where your mouth is!

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when does the beta comes? i realy wanna play it! if i like it i buy the real game.

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SACKBOY PLUSHIES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! make em.

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