People are never going to see LBP as a success

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LBP is doing fine, end of story.

I just recently bought it and I think the game is brilliant but suffers from a couple of MAJOR drawbacks. The first, of course, is the levels that come with the game aren't really sewn together well or wrapped around any kind of story. It's just a bunch of really cool stuff thrown together. I finished up most of the worlds that came with it and have ventured out into user-created land and found some cools stuff... Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and other theme-based worlds created by people with a hell of a lot more time than myself.

Had LBP come with a solid "story" backed with a much more significant single player "campaign", (second major issue) it most certainly would be at or near the top of every GOTY list in existence.

Pushing out 2M+ copies of ANY game is impressive. LBP will certainly do this and more. Getting a Metacritic score in the mid 90s is equally impressive. That doesn't change the fact that the game feels unfinished to me and for that will never get the respect that I would give a "complete" experience. Perhaps the add-ons that are in the pipe will give us a solid story-based campaign that the game should have shipped with.

I hope the add-ons are cheap, however, because $59.99 is a lot to pay for a game that requires a multitude of microtransactions to get the most out of it...