It's a real hassle to get your levels some popularity and good ratings. There are so many levels being published every second, that your creations will get dropped to bottom in a matter of seconds. This is where all the silly exploits and stupid workarounds come in, people keep republishing their levels about 100 times per day so they can be on the top and get seen by others and hopefully get some plays and ratings or hearts. But everybody keeps doing that and now everything is a mess. The only way to get your level some attention is advertising it on the forums across the net and making trailers on youtube, it makes me very sad that it came down to this.

I hate it how there will always be people who will give your levels a bad rating, no matter how good it is or how much time and effort you invested in creating it. For example I saw a comment that went like this "plz heart it took me 30 minutes to make it". WTF?! You can't be serious right? Levels are supposed to take hundreds of hours making them, but instead we get those H4H filling the community levels with junk.

So what does H4H mean you ask ? It's a tag meaning "heart for heart", basically you give your level this tag, and other people will know the level was made just to get hearted, in return you promise to go heart their levels. It's a very cheap method, especially when those levels are just empty space. I understand that not everyone can make a good level, but you should at least try and give it your all. Keep practicing and creating stuff you will eventually get better and make great levels that are fun to play. Every person has their own taste so it's not possible to make a level that everyone will like, but I give good ratings to people who clearly did their best even though the level could be a bit more polished.

But as far as I understand it all comes down to this, to get good ratings you have to make an easy level, nobody wants to die, but is a little challenge such a bad thing? Why play a game if you just want to see the pretty decorations? A game is meant to be played! It just has to be fair and balanced. The easier level you make the better rating it will get. So why is that ? Because the community consists of people who are not gamers at all, and it's destroying the game. LBP2 is gonna be a very good game with many great features I'm sure, but it'll bring us just as much trash.