Source: http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/ps3/littlebigplanet#users

Note:- This happened "before" the anounced delay by sony for the LBP game. I just got back from a conference so I couldn't post it.

For those who actually missed out a bit on what happened:

A few days ago, the flagship game of the Playstation 3 system, Little Big Planet (LBP) was delayed. It was scheduled to launch on the same day as the highly anticipated game on the Xbox 360 system by the name of Fable 2. For several months now, fans of both system have been preaching about the superiority of either game even though they are completely and entirely different genres. Hence, while the game couldn't be compared on the technical aspects, both X360 and PS3 fanboys stated arguing(pathetic I know...) about which game would actually get higher sales or scores.

As I scour across the VG forums, I cannot help but stumble on the countless threads about those predictions and make it a point not to post in any of them so as not to encourage the fanatism. It goes to prove my point as to the extent both sides are willing to go to try to vindicate their way of thoughts.

However, nothing beats the following:

As the situation unravelled itself, It became increasingly clear with the release of the LBP and Fable demos, which games would be getting the better reviews. Post fan experience after they have played portions of the game either justified or nullified the hype surrounding the game. A couple of weeks ago, the first reviews flew in and quite unsurprisingly (even though I'm a massive fan of the first fable), LBP recieved universal acclaim while Fable II did not. Many fans including the "most prominent" x360 loyalists on these forums with several thousands posts to their names have been touting Fable II to be the RPG of the year. Clearly, it is not. Obviously, they have failed to deliver.

A great many X360/Fable II fans found themselves in this situation and when looking at the Metacritic score and discovering the trend of official media reviews indicating 95+ for LBP and less than 89- for Fable II, they started sabotaging the user scores and started voting for LBP with a 0 presumably even before playing the game.

This prompted metacritic to issue the statement above, upset about how the presumed fans abused the system. This will be a good thing though, as it appears it has encouraged them to modify the way votes are gathered.

Feel free to contribute :) I for myself am waiting for the release of WKC. Not because I intend to buy the game but because this time, it is the PS3 fanboys that are touting it as the RPG of the year. If it is indeed the case, so much the better for them but if it is a flop... I will enjoy laughing! ^^ Anyone wants to say WKC will be huge?

This remind me of the users score here it was a chaos

........Could it be that LBP is getting 0's not because of X360 fanboys, but outraged LBP fans that are disgruntled over Sony caving in to a meaningless (in fans eyes) thing?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the article says absolutely nil about who is bringing down the score. Again, I'd point to disgruntled LBP fans and not Fable 2 fans. Stop trying to create arguments when you have no real proof of such a thing.

both the comment from the editor on metacritic as well as the low "user" score where present before the delay was announced.  (as reference see the first couple pages of the lbp review thread)

The editors post would have been sufficient for the thread.

The scores was posted before the delay :) I saw it from the hotel but I didn't know my password so I couldn't post it here... I was surprised nobody noticed it. Hence though, it wasn't because of the delay. And It was not meaningless in my opinion. I suppose it would be the same thing as a game insulting the Virgin Mary and calling her names for Catholics. I'm neither Catholic nor Muslim... but it just seems the same and the right move.

There is nothing more holy for Muslims than th Qu'ran. Even more so than their holy Prophet as it is the inspired word of god.

It had a low score before the delay. When I looked it had about 1000 votes placing it at 6.0/10. Some people are really stupid if they feel the need to rate things really low just to bring down the score for no reason at all, not because they have played it and genuinely don't like it.

Just look at the number of user votes that game has. NO OTHER game in metacritic has had that many user votes on a game that isnt even release yet. Look at Halo 3 it doesnt even have that many.

Its obvious fanboism at its best. Doesnt take a genius to work that out (not offending anyone here just stating its obvious).

Anyway who pays attention to user votes these days with fanboism at its best. Metacritic said they will change the score to the original user vote once the game is released.

yeah the scores were low before the delay when first reviews started to come in.

check out lbp review thread mrstickball there is comments about that.

and more certain its haters either fanboys.

lol this is low even by 360 fanboy standards quite pathetic too...

are you sure its not the recall, and not angry fanboys. when did it seem like fable fans were bashing lbp.... it seems like a silly idea that one can be good and the other not. i think they will both be good games. 

about lbps recall though i have to say very few places seem to be honoring it