LittleBigPlanet 3 fans furious at Sony betrayal as servers shut down permanently

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After the servers were taken down in January for technical reasons, Sony has announced online functionality in LittleBigPlanet 3 will not return.

LittleBigPlanet 3 came out in 2014 While online features in games are often shut down years after release, it’s a particular gut punch when it affects games primarily built on user-generated content. This occurred with Super Mario Maker on the Wii U earlier this month, with the shut down of the console’s online services wiping millions of user-created levels from existence. The same has now happened to LittleBigPlanet 3, only with no prior warning.

The abrupt shutdown has infuriated fans, especially as there’s been no LittleBigPlanet sequel on PlayStation 5 yet – outside of spin-off platformer Sackboy: A Big Adventure, which doesn’t have level creation tools. One Twitter user wrote: ‘Damn that’s all we get? A tweet? Countless hours spent by the whole community to make tens of millions of levels that are now completely gone to be forgotten about, and all we get is a one-sentence-long tweet.’ Another added: ‘We need LittleBigPlanet 4.

 

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