Shall we scrub LBP beta levels, asks Sony

By Tom Bramwell Published 9 October, 2008

Results of online poll will be decisive.

Sony wants to know if it should delete all the things you've made using the LittleBigPlanet beta, which ends on 12th October.

"As many of you are doubtless aware, at present we are not planning to make shared creations from the beta test available in the full version of the game. However, we're aware that a lot of time and effort has been put into what you've created so far," the company wrote on the official PlayStation.com LBP forum.

"With this in mind we're going to give you the choice! Whether you took part in the LittleBigPlanet beta test or not your opinion counts - would you rather that created levels and items from the beta test were available when the game launches, or would you rather we removed everything and the shared side of the game started from scratch? Vote before Monday October 13th, and we'll go with whichever option receives more votes!"

The post goes on to say that "levels that have been uploaded already" may survive the cull, but that "any save game data, offline creations or progress cannot be transferred into the full game".

Having asked if people's hard work should be saved, not unpredictably "Yes" accounts for 83 per cent of the vote at the time of writing.

The LittleBigPlanet beta, which we still haven't forgiven for crashing our f***ing website, was so popular in its early days that unused keys were exchanging hands on eBay for as much as a tenner. Staggering.

The full game is due out exclusively for PS3 on 24th October, and our review will be up sooner than you think.

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Comments (11) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • buggrit #1 4 years ago

    What king of a question is THAT? Provided that all the content works with the full retail game, they'd be insane to delete it - IT'S A SELLING-POINT IDIOTS!

    Sony - shooting themselves in the foot since 2006.

  • Mugwum Verified Operations Director, Eurogamer Network #2 4 years ago

    Yep, we did. Should be good for COD. THEN.

  • Mugwum Verified Operations Director, Eurogamer Network #3 4 years ago

    That was obviously a response to the first post. Otherwise it makes no sense. If that.

  • BadByte #4 4 years ago

    "What king of a question is THAT? Provided that all the content works with the full retail game, they'd be insane to delete it - IT'S A SELLING-POINT IDIOTS! "

    Agreed many levels just too great to be deleted, voted yes in hope those levels makes it into retail.


    "Sony - shooting themselves in the foot since 2006."

    Thats noting new, in 2008 they continue to aim at their feet.
    ''In a keynote speech at the Broadband World Forum, John McMahon, President of Sony Pictures Television asked ISPs to join their battle against piracy. McMahon further said that DRM is one of the major causes of piracy, but says Sony doesn’t have any plans to get rid of it.'' (source: http://torrentfreak.com/sony-urges-isps-to-cooperate-against-piracy-081001/ )
    Edited by BadByte at 09/10/08 @ 07:46

  • Ninja_Tino #5 4 years ago

    The odd few are great but I sort of want it to be all deleted and to start again. I'm sick of going on and seeing the same old thing.

  • CheeseMuffler #6 4 years ago

    If I were the guy who made the LBP Colossus and Sony were threatening to wipe it.. well.. the *least* I would be doing is taking hostages.
    Edited by CheeseMuffler at 09/10/08 @ 10:05

  • Artemus #7 4 years ago

    So we are going to have to play through all the tutorials again then. Damn.

  • HolyJebus #8 4 years ago

    "our review will be up sooner than you think."

    I think it'll be up today :)

  • Zebula77 #9 4 years ago

    Umm, if the did delete all of the uploaded levels, wouldn't the creators still have their levels on their savegames? Or will those also be deleted/incompatible with the retail version?
    Sounds like a bad idea to me. So many truly wonderful levels up already. Would be a shame to see those disappear.

    Edit: Ok, I see they inform about the savegames being useless. Hmf.
    Edited by Zebula77 at 09/10/08 @ 13:23

  • sneetch #10 4 years ago

    Bah! There's an element of pantomime about that question, IMO, sounds like a publicity gig.

    Sony: "Hey, boys and girls, should we delete all the levels from the beta?"
    Public: "No!"
    Sony: "What's that? You think we should?"
    Public: "NOO!"

    They would be stupid to wipe the board clean unless they give people a way of saving their levels so they can resubmit them after launch. It achieves nothing and would just irritate the creators who have put in all that work.

  • Royal Fool #11 4 years ago

    Exactly, deleting all that stuf now would only piss off all the talented folks. Nice to see Sony changing their opinion on it... assuming they're not just doing this for publicity and always planned to keep them around anyway.

    That said, there are A LOT of crap levels in the beta. But I assume that'll also ring true for the retail release, heh.