LittleBigPlanet fans have some good news / bad news this morning. After months of downtime, PS4 servers for LittleBigPlanet 3 they are back online, with all community content restored and working as before. However, the servers of all previous versions of PS3 and Vita will remain offline indefinitely, having been shut down in an effort to “protect the LittleBigPlanet community “and keep online services” secure “.
In May, Sony shut down the servers of the first three LittleBigPlanet games (and the Vita version) due to ongoing attacks and malicious messages left by hackers. The numbers went back to the end of last year, when Eurogamer reported that ongoing DDoS attacks and unstable servers could be traced back to a single fan who was “unhappy with Sony’s treatment of the franchise.” Players who were unable to play community-created content and were also reported offensive messages appear in the game.
In short: it was a huge shitty storm, which is why Sony shut down the servers on May 22nd.
Now, months later and without notice, the official LittleBigPlanet Twitter account announced that the Little Big Planet 3 PS4 servers are back online after a new title update. But he also confirmed that the servers in the original PlayStation 3 trilogy and the Vita version are now permanently disabled.
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“We have no doubt that this news will be a disappointment to many of you,” Sony said in a statement on Twitter. “Ultimately, this is the best way to protect the LittleBigPlanet community and to ensure that our online environment remains secure. “
In the follow-up tweets, the file LittleBigPlanet account explains that the games can be played offline, that the DLC levels purchased and downloaded in the old games will continue to work, and that all previously uploaded community content can be played on the PS4 version of LittleBigPlanet 3.
The reaction from the community has been mostly negative. While some are grateful that the developers keep and preserve all the content of the old community, many others criticized Sony’s lack of transparency about ongoing server issues, extended downtime, and the surprise cessation of most of the online functions of the games.
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The whole situation is weird LittleBigPlanet it’s not a small franchise from an unknown independent developer, but a popular Sony series that it is appeared in various forms on various PlayStation consoles. Seeing that it is attacked by hackers and trolls so easily and then, after months of downtime, is almost completely shut down, except for the most recent entry, which is weird.
Today’s result seems less than optimal, but if there is a common thread, it is that at least all the content created by the user of the PlayStation 3 trilogy can be played on the PlayStation 4 game. really catastrophic state.