If their scheme works, users who upload the most popular levels will be rewarded with more space. It’s common sense, really — when lurking on YouTube, do you look for the videos with five stars, or with one?

On the other hand, if you wanted to play Devil’s Advocate, you could accuse Sony of some subtle social engineering here. After all, server space is so cheap these days that it’s effectively free. Just think of GMail, and Flikr, and all those sites that let you upload files that are hundreds of megabytes in size — for free.

So it’s not an issue of cost — it’s an issue of quality.

Sony wants to create a sense of value for those who’ve bought their game. By rewarding the best LittleBigPlanet players with more online space — and by restricting those who, well, suck — they can make this dream a reality. Or at least, that’s the plan.

http://kotaku.com/5031187/littlebigplanet-make-good-stuff-get-more-space

Sounds like a really good idea, i don't want to download 30 levels and only 1 be good. But i can't wait to play Mario levels with a sackboy

Ehhhh.... seems crappy to me.

Hoenstly if someone wants to create a bunch of crappy levels and upload them... that's what the rating is for anyway.

Uploads should be infinite and free in my opinion. EA and Spore ain't putting a limit on uploads for example.

Well the size of a spore creature is much smaller than a level in LBP.  Plus you can make dozens of interesting creatures in a short time.  A good LBP level could probably take hours of planning.  I can kind of see the point, they don't want people to just upload dozens of levels for the hell of it.  As long as the base amount of space is decent I don't have much of a problem.

Thank god.

worst thing would be having to go through 99% crap to find a few gems.

So if someone is untalented or if the levels they make are played by and rated by a bunch of people they shouldn't be able to share their levels with a couple of their friends across the world?

A stage in LBP shouldn't take up that much server space at all.  Levels can be written up in text files... the only reasons ones may take up room is if it had a lot of custom graphics due to people using camera... and even then it wouldn't be more then your average image.

I assume you meant aren't.  Anyways, I am sure it isn't so restricted that people can only upload a couple levels.  I think it is more to prevent abuse by someone uploading hundreds of levels.  Also if it is just a couple friends they could always take down one of their levels and put up their new one.

Nice.

This should help with my plan to make the star wars saga.....

sounds great and very ingeniouse