Online gaming publication Kotaku has taken upon itself to investigate why Nintendo seems to be deleting certain Super Mario Maker levels for no apparent reason. The deletions seem to come at random and there appears to be no obvious pattern. This has led some to believe that there’s a problem with the underlying algorithm although nothing can be ascertained at present. Of course users who have invested time making levels only to have them deleted are becoming extremely frustrated with the Kyoto based company, especially younger users parents. You can read Kotaku’s lengthy findings, here.
It’d be one thing if Nintendo was informing people about why their stages are coming down, giving them a chance to change the infringing material or learn a lesson for the future, but that’s not the case. Levels just…vanish. Over time, Mario Maker fans have picked up on a series of secretive rules that Nintendo deploys. Users will no longer be able to use the words “Like”, “Yeah!”, and the “★” symbol in their course names.
Maybe they’re deleting them to avoid server overload, looking at how there is millions of levels that have been made.
yes this… they had to figure a way to trim it, so it makes sense
Time to invest in a payable online service then so they can have the money to pay for dedicated servers so they don’t have to worry about hitting critical mass & deleting people’s hard work.
Nintendo: Cheaper than Microsoft.
well I never do that, but so many courses and so much trash… the mario maker system is a but flawed, even if I think it is innovative and very fun… I have dropped out for the most part though.
No shit they are still doing it, why would they do it then stop suddenly, and why would kids parents care? Only 1% of the Wii U’s userbase is kids…lol
I am not sure that is true, the 1% theory
If it were correct, that would mean like one kid plays the Wii U.
funny
um, only if there were 100 people who owned the system…
that’s the joke
havent we already been over this? Nintendo was deleting courses with low popularity to save space.
We need a more efficient system of quality control.
i dont know man… seems pretty efficient to me. “no one’s playing it? get rid of it” kinda makes me think of the buddhist sand mandalas. they work on these intricate pieces and then as part of a ceremonial ritual they are destroyed.
That’s stupid. Wasteful, absurd and stupid. And dickish. Why not just be less disgustingly cheap?
I mean, they do offer online service for free…I don’t have a problem with microsoft/sony charging for online, but I don’t have a problem with Nintendo deleting low traffic levels from their free servers either. They could at least give some kind of warning that allows players to save their levels locally before they’re deleted or something though.
That is sad but then again it is nintendo
It might be to check for “like whores” as a lot of people do that with their titles.
I got this months ago. One of my levels got suddenly deleted without any explanations of why. I admit, this level was hard. But with the dumpload of hard/impossible levels i seen in the 100 mario challenge? how come my level gets deleted and not theirs ?!
Seeing as you didn’t read the article, here’s the part that will help:
“Nintendo seems to be deleting certain Super Mario Maker levels for no apparent reason. The deletions seem to come at random and there appears to be no obvious pattern.”
That means your levels aren’t the only ones affected. There are others who have had the same problem, it happens randomly.
I blame it on the comments issue. You can use the Wii Remote to draw comments on levels. I have jumped into levels in the 100 Mario maker challenge to be presented with drawings of penises and curse words.