Media Molecule head honcho Alex Evans doesn’t want to abandon the LittleBigPlanet community when the studio starts work on LBP 2. In a recent interview, Evans stated that he wants to bring over user-created levels from the original to the inevitable sequel -- something he dubbed as “backwards compatibility.” But it might not be so innocent: Evans suggested that Sony or Media Molecule could charge people for the pleasure to play the created levels.
“We can give them backwards compatibility with those levels, and then when you decide on how you're going to sell that to them," Evans told GI.biz, "... all I'm saying is we've got loads of options open to us, and we can pick really late. We can make them in a year's time, or whenever we want to ship - and that's really useful for a developer, you can make a fine grain decision about what the price point is, or how you dice it."
"We could do a version with every level available on subscription, or something like that,” he continued. “I don't know what we'll do, but it's really exciting that we can make those choices, and make them late in the day."
Just to be clear: LBP 2 hasn’t been announced and obviously anything Evans says now is subject to change. Games take forever to make and ideas are often thrown to the curb as they take shape. So, we’ll have to wait and see on this one.
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5:00 AM on 07.09.2009
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Looks like the critical acclaim of LBP has gone to someones head a bit!
Surely they make enough from all the DLC? Surely they don't need to squeeze more money out of us?!
All you've got to do now mM is fix those fucking Play, Create, Share ratings!!
I'm more excited for ModNation than LBP2.
(Looks lovingly at receipt for order of NSMBW)
If they charge for playing user created levels that would be going against: one, the PS networks motto of being free for anyone to play and two, disregarding the "share" part of play create share slogan that was with the first game. Normally when you share something you do it for free, I let my friend borrow a game from me for a price. Anyways I really don't think that will be a problem, MM and Sony would shoot the selves in the foot if they charged for user created levels. And another thing there would be a massive cluster fuck of people wanting to get a cut of that money too. Keep it free keep it simple and keep the servers from going nuts.
On another note Im surprised that there are making a squeal after all the talk in the press of how this game just bombed in the sales department. Thank you Sony for not giving up on MM. A lesser publisher would of flipped MM the bird.
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