After some serious reorganization, we've got everything set and ready to go for LBP2's launch! It should feel innately familiar (we didn't add much and we only subtracted one thing) - if not, we probably did something wrong! In terms of the actual nitty gritty of what was changed, here's what we did:
- We've got one central News forum for all news now. News is news - having two forums for that is messier than anything else, really.
- Sharing the Fun is gone - but the forums inside it are not. They have simply been shifted to other areas. See if you can spot where we moved them.
- The Level Showcase will remain one central hub for all levels. This is to reflect LittleBigPlanet 2's approach to the presentation of levels. We hope to offer ways to filter levels by type and other things like that in the future, but for for now what we've got will work fine. We can still show whether a level was made in LBP1 or LBP2 (along with lots of other info about each level), so it will be clear to you which is which. Our Cool Levels process hasn't changed - nobody has had any complaints about it...ever, really, so we didn't see a reason to touch it.
- We now have way more stuff going on for each game. If you're just an LBP2 fan, you can minimize the LBP content using the minimize category button on the right side of the category bar - and vice versa for LBP fans and LBP2 content. We wanted to make sure that each game got specific categories so people could discuss the nuances of each one in more detail. We know Mm touts backwards compatibility and the like, but they're not perfectly equal, and shouldn't be treated as such in all ways.
That's about it. Hope everyone enjoys LBP2 tomorrow (or tonight, as the case may be :)). Have fun!
