I'll try to contain my amazement! It has to be a bit crap, they deliberatly put that music in that pee'd off the Muslims so they pull it out at the last second, just to appear like worldly-wise, globalised hipsters. Phony are so desperate for any kind of recognition, like some spolit brat screaming and yelling, everyone is just ignoring.

There was a SHIT HOT Sonic green hill zone on the beta. That's been binned now. Fucking Sony Nazis :(

Besides Little Big Planet just not appealing to me in the slightest, I find it hard to understand why Sony have decided to delete user generated content.

It just doesn't make sense.

It doesn't want to offend user-generated-content-slims?

(Muslims)

:(

that laugh was great - it went right into the red bit on the right

unsorion: something from a film probably

It is possibly the most retarded thing Sony has done in a while (except for paying people to think up ideas for their shitty games and hardware).

The ONLY remotely good levels I have seen (on Youtube and other various video sites) have all been based around other video games.

I wonder how many people are going to bother even making levels for LBP (and therefore even playing it) - when they find they can't even make them without them being deleted.

It also makes you wonder why they even nothered to make the game to be compatible with the PS3 Camera thing - so you can put any image you want in your levels.
(Or should that be; So you can spend hours making a level, adding images taken with the camera, upload it - and then the next day be rewarded with your level deleted.)

It also makes me laugh that GTA IV beat LBP 3:1 in Japan on the opening week of sales. (A game designed for the Japanese market (LBP) against a game which very nearly didn't get a Japanese release) :D

Is that a serious "Hahahahahahahaha" or an ironic what-a-shit-update "Hahahahahahahaha"?

Just so I know whether to go to bed smug or mildly annoyed.

i'd go bed smug if i were you :) and maybe with a nice warm glass of milk.

Also does anyone know if Sony was actually sued over this?

-I ask because normally a company would start deleting content like this if they had been visited by the men in suits (grey ones, not white unfortunately).

Every article I have read on this doesn't mention any calls from lawyers - it sounds like Sony just got a little jumpy and decided to ban anything good, just in case.

But even then surely it would be possible for Sony to allow creators to make games they own? Apparently the God of War creations were deleted too.
What's going on? Are they worried that they are going to sue themselves?

Can't Sony just use the excuse that it's only hosting content created by others and therefore isn't actually liable? It's what keeps usenet going, after all.

Or maybe that's the problem - Sony doesn't want to risk Fox suing a PS3 owner for 50 trillion dollars because he's made a shit Homer Simpson level?

Yes, that's it. I have cracked it. Please credit "Funky McBrighton Hotel Room" for breaking this exclusive.

Unbelievable. Has Sony/Media Molecule ever sent out press images of other games recreated in LBP?

Didn't RARE do a trailer for Banjo with a big 8bit Mario and then they flew into it..
I dont think they are deleting because they are going to get sued.. I think they just don't want people having fun because they already have your money.. They just wanna piss on their fanboys even more and make them cry! :) Keep it up $ony!

I think they realised that all the games people really like aren't created, owned are in any way related to sony, so they banned them , not having to remind themselves and the people playing ps3 of their constant failure.

an ironic what-a-shit-update.

If they don't want folks making "game levels" then why the fuck do they make god of war and medal queer sackboys things? I don't get it what the fuck do they expect to happen? Anyway having good wank over this hope I have enough left for this weeks sale release.

word verification:aramp:used by handicapped people orlazy fat fucks who can't be bothered to walk up those 5 stairs.

Zorg it was a bit of both, but mostly that I enjoyed the update. Though the lack of tags disappoints me still.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2_dtPWW0pc&feature=related

Here's how it goes.
"Let's make a great game where users can make there own stuff, add what they like!"
"Yeah, great!"
9 months later...
"So we made it and it's out there. How's it going?"
"Ah, slight problem we didn't think about until the lawyers saw the UGC stuff..."
"Oh yeah?"

"Yep. People are putting in a load of copyrighted and TM images they don't own the rights to, stuff like Coke cans, sport stars and ermmm this rather unpleasant one where some wag has scanned their XBOX 360 and Wii and made all the characters kneel and praise it....lawyers and PR depts got very jumpy about that last one, so we pulled the whole idea."

what would happen if you made a level based off the LBP game? would a black hole accrue?

What if you made a level with a sony laptop that burst into flames when you switch it on?

What would happen if UKR made an LBP t-shirt?

What's this? Gamers have to use THEIR OWN IMAGINATION rather than just ripping off the work of others? Life's a bitch ain't it?

Stop moaning and work for your supper.

What would happen if you made a level based on Sega's buisness model on the mid to late 90s?

KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOM.

Oh - and LBP is an absolutely amazing game, and if you're not playing it merely out of some ridiculous hatred of Sony, you're missing out on one the best games of this generation. Call yourself gamers? You should be ashamed of yourselves.

UKR = Gaming Nazis.

UKR = Gaming Nazis.

I smell a new T-shirt idea...


word ver: 'Tuning' (they're not even trying anymore are they)

I've played it. It's a shit platform game brimming with awful levels made by idiots and rammed full of useless rewards. 4/10.

'a shit platform game brimming with awful levels made by idiots and rammed full of useless rewards. 4/10'

That could be review of any Sonic the Hedgehog game made in the past 10 years. Good effort.

Another PR cock-up from Sony, who don't warn anyone that their LBP level could infringe on some copyright or trademark somewhere, and delete them, again, without warning. Bravo - those guys just keep getting dumber.

The game's character should henceforth be known as SackedBoy.

I for one want this to continue, and even escalate, because at this rate the amount of overtime Sony will have to pay the censors will eat into the earnings made from game sales.

Finally, I suggest we kidnap a LBP player and only release them once they've made a smug UKR tribute level.

Word verifiwhatsit: Manifesto - not really, but my comment reads a bit like one.

'I for one want this to continue, and even escalate, because at this rate the amount of overtime Sony will have to pay the censors will eat into the earnings made from game sales.'

Regardless of the premise of the sight, or what I or anybody else thinks of Sony, that statement really does make you sound like an utter cunt.

Grow up. This is videogames we're talking about, not fucking world politics.

I used to quite like this site, but when you delve a little deeper, it quickly becomes apparent that there are a lot of arseholes here.

correction:
'sight' = 'Site'

I thought everyone here, including me, was/is an arsehole. That's the fucking point. Twat!

"Call yourself gamers? You should be ashamed of yourselves."
"Grow up. This is videogames we're talking about, not fucking world politics."
"I used to quite like this site, but when you delve a little deeper, it quickly becomes apparent that there are a lot of arseholes here."

Has this post been put up on threespeech or something?

Cunts.

Err, Anonymous, were you here for the 'Europe at War' build-up to the PS3 launch? Or the 'Victory in Europe' posts just after the PS3 launch? Or for any part of the last 12 years?

Only it seems like you've missed the point of this blog entirely.

One final question: Are you a professional cunt, or is it just a hobby of yours? Like a Hornby railway set, trolling the Internet, or BDSM?

Right now there are a lot of unhappy LBP owners out there wondering why the fuck they bought a second rate pile of shite console. That accepts a film format that nobody is currently buying. I for one am glad that Sony have yet again upset there "loyal" fans. Hopefully the next time these people consider buying a new console they will think thrice before giving their hard earned cash to Sony.

Not only they delete levels based on "other's" IP (Zelda, Sonic), but they delete "sony" stuff too. Like MGS. Why, o' why... Because they sell it (mgs skins for Suckboy), for real money, and can't allow people to give it for free.

http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/11/sony-price-gaug.html

" Hopefully the next time these people consider buying a new console they will think thrice before giving their hard earned cash to Sony."

Won't that make them end up back where they started, parting with cash..?

"I for one am glad that Sony have yet again upset there "loyal" fans. Hopefully the next time these people consider buying a new console they will think thrice before giving their hard earned cash to Sony."

Probably. It's a business model Sega perfected in the 90s - super effective. So make the most of it, the next generation of bitter old cunts will soon be upon us...

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'but they delete "sony" stuff too. Like MGS.'

Since when was MGS published/produced by Sony? The lack of knowledge some of you people demonstrate is astounding.

What do you mean "you people"?

Don't you mean "our"? "Lack of knowledge some of our.."

If you do mean "you people", nobody forced you to read the comments section, twat.

Now, if you are still reading the comments section, I just insulted you, is that what you really wanted? Damn. Foiled again.

WV- ingfworp - somewhere in Norfolk? Wales perhaps..

@ martin

'you people' = YOU

I like being insulted. It makes me feel alive.

Well, in the interesting of keeping you happy, you're a tossing cuntflap

0.5% Of LBP Levels Modded
13 According to Sam over at the LittleBigPlanet Workshop, less than 200 levels have been moderated, making up less than 0.5% of all the levels published. He tells us that the majority of these were because they contained obscenities, fair enough, and the rest for copyright reasons. He says, by way of an example: "Oasis is the name both of a band and of a soft drink (at least in Europe), however any level using the title 'Oasis' would be absolutely fine right now unless it included music by Oasis the band, or the likeness of the drinks bottle."
http://www.n4g.com/News-230305.aspx

Yeah nice try, it's actually "with less than 0.5% of levels actively moderated as a result of complaints from other users."

Note the 'other users' bit.

"'a shit platform game brimming with awful levels made by idiots and rammed full of useless rewards. 4/10'
That could be review of any Sonic the Hedgehog game made in the past 10 years. Good effort."

SA and SA2 (2001) were great, you're wrong frokm the start. If it wasn't enough still LBP faggots have the need of making levels based on that guy's shitty games.

"Grow up. This is videogames we're talking about, not fucking world politics."

Exacly, why so serious?

"Are you a professional cunt, or is it just a hobby of yours? Like a Hornby railway set, trolling the Internet, or BDSM?"

He's everything bundled up together, in two words, Sony fan.

WV: Yessem, a mirror of yes men, a thing Sony fans are. Appropriate.

I can't believe how stupid most of you are. Sony is MODERATING like 1 in 200 levels that are breaking a copyright of some kind. How hard is that for you guys to understand? Sony can't allow copyright infringement and host them on their own servers. It's the same reason why companies can't officially host mods that break copyright as well. I honestly don't get how you guys can't figure that one out. So there are 199 out of 200 levels that are making it. That's a .5% of levels. The only reason why this is coming more into light is because there is so MUCH user generated content coming out of this game. The same thing happens with other games that break copyrights. I mean come on guys. It's not hard to figure out. LOL

Shittiest site I've ever seen LMAO!

READ THE STATEMENT, that 0.5% refers to levels they've had *complaints* about, they are moderating fucking loads of stuff. This game will die a death, believe me. It's already flopped.

Who the fuck cares if a coke can or a fucking oasis lyric appears in a level in some game?

Sony have been so monumentally retarded in thinking that allowing users to generate content wouldn't result in some form of copyright infringement.

We live in a highly commercialised, brand name driven society. The only things that mean anything to the vast majority of people are the products and brands they see around them, why wouldn't they recreate these in the game?

Just look at other foetid "web 2.0" shitpiles such as Second Life. You can't move on there without bumping into some new form of copyright infringement. They seem to do ok though, I really don't think anyone would care.

They should take the position of not removing anything unless specifically asked to by the copyright owners. But this is Sony, they're probably worried about their OWN intellectual property more than anything else.

If this is the best the ps3 has to offer then the 360 fans among us should celebrate!