OK I'm going to show you my sackboy/girl designs first then the new LBP DLC costume next and tell me what you think!

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crowsfeet wrote:
Maybe you won and they just forgot to tell you?

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Haha that would be funny

They announced the winner but didn't even name them, just showed the costume that will be free to download.

Lack of credit to the designer is appalling.

 Something is FISHY all right!

I'm not the only one who isn't happy and here's why.

Again designs for the costume comp and the new downloaded content.

I'm not sure a moderator can do anything this all depends on when the media molecule costumes were designed.

What makes it more serious is they are actually charging money for these costumes where as the winners were going to be free.

If they are ripping off peoples costumes(no pun intended) and then charging money for them then that opens up a big can of worms.

Perhaps the media will get involved and try get to the bottom of this, I can see games mags being interested in this sort of thing.

Maybe they were designs that MM had already thought of and had developed and it's a coincidence that they're similar?

As we had no info on upcoming costumes we were pretty much hoping that the designs we picked weren't already in the game in some for or another.  I hardly think they'd bother to rip off designs from this forum's competition.

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I reckon that if they're similar by coincidence or copied, it's nice to see that your designs got used or were just the right sort of thing and already in the pipeline. I figure that if your design was the inspiration, it would be cool to have that acknowledged, true, and whether or not that's the case, maybe you should get a free copy of that costume (assuming the rest of us will have to pay) as a well done / no hard feelings kind of thing.

Looking at the designs, don't think anyone could complain that their Motorstorm inspired costume had been ripped off - the helmet is the only similar part and it's the game's iconic image so it's not suprising. The penguin is only really similar in terms of the markings on the face - look at the differences - beak held on with string / bowtie vs. scarf / top hat vs. no top hat - not too similar other than the word "penguin". The shark-on-the-head one is pretty similar, and I'd be up for the argument that it does come across mighty "inspired", but MM have obviously loaned an animal book from the library and are working their way through - zebra, ape, frog, lion, etc. - if I was working on "shark", I reckon I'd be 80% likely to have had it eating the SB's head, it's just funny.

Wish I'd submitted a costume now...

Well It's certainly nice to get an official response! I like your tone( that's PR training for you! ).

It would have been nice to have said.... OK the competition is over here is the winner ( give them credit by NAMING THEM ) and also here is a list of people who created similar designs to the ones we created and as reward for that we will give those people a prize( free costume etc. )

People would have been very HAPPY and not ANGRY or SAD or even FEARFUL of what has happened ( do you see what I've done there !!)

Still It's not too late now is it?