LittleBigPlanet Is One LittleBigRegion: No Lock On User-Generated Content
Late yesterday, news out of Leipzig had a Sony exec announcing that LittleBigPlanet's shared levels would be restricted to users in the same territories, disappointing fans who expected the game to live up to its title and provide a global experience. Now a Sony developer is refuting that claim.
In a post to the official European Playstation message board, a SCE Developer with the handle "Sam_Protagonist" posted the following:
[A]s 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.
Interesting that a senior producer wouldn't know this about the game going into a big interview at the Games Convention, and this source doesn't say exactly how they'll get around the funny legality of the situation, so it's possible this news may flip back in the other direction. For now though, the dream of playing with international Sackboys (and girls) remains intact.
After the break, check out the latest trailer from the game, starring Sackzilla and his crazy, bugged out, serial killer eyes.
LittleBigPlanet Is Not Region Locked [Playstation Europe]
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Posted to Video Games on 23 August 2008
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Yay! I love the whole "play with everything" vibe. If the game lives up to its promise I'll probably buy a PS3.
Yet another little Sony snaffu.
Does anyone at Sony actually know what they're doing/talking about?
The game looks adorable and funny, but what is it? I haven't heard of it until now. Gonna have to do some digging.