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Or is it? Comments 26 Comments for this article are now closed. Thanks for taking part! Hide low-scoring comments Yes No. Order Newest Oldest Best Worst. Have you played LittleBigPlanet 3? The last we heard from the team came on April 16, with a post reading, "We are still working on the LBP server issues. Thanks for being so patient : ". The screen that greets LittleBigPlanet 3 players who want to play online right now. Many have pointed fingers at a single, aggrieved member of the community, spoken about stolen server keys, and claimed that thousands of junk levels were uploaded at one time as a DDOS attack to cripple servers.
Others refuse to believe those theories, believing more prosaic reasons are to blame, based more on a lack of support for the games as they get older. We will keep you updated on progress and appreciate the continued patience as we work to resolve the matter. I asked LBP player JakeLamba what it is that brought him back to the game so long after its release, and their reply feels like a very common sentiment.
I just got reminded of all the amazing times I had in the game and how instrumental it was in promoting creativity in me as a child. Though it's not just nostalgia that keeps bringing me back. I honestly think the game series is being slept on. The games have so much charm in them. It felt like the game was on a whole different level compared to others.
The game had the perfect childhood, arts and crafts project feel to it. Really feeding into our growing imaginations at the time. Players return to, or have simply kept playing, LittleBigPlanet games because of the memories attached to them, and their relatively unique format — only the Mario Maker series really matches LittleBigPlanet for both profile and approach.
One user even says they now play it with their own child, after playing it themselves back in Loading Advertisement. If increasing digitalization is a concern for those interested in game preservation, games that rely on online-driven, user-generated content should be treated like something of an endangered species.
But from what we can see, LittleBigPlanet is suffering those effects somewhat early. TheGamer recently reported that Titanfall on PC has been functionally unplayable for years due to hackers, who post racist abuse and forcibly disconnect those coming to play for legitimate reasons. Where server attacks and outages in more recent games are fixed as a matter of course, in legacy games like Titanfall and LittleBigPlanet, the silence can be hard to break.
Without it there would've been a very good chance they were just going to shut it down and put an end to the LBP games. But even all that effort has led only to an acknowledgement of the problem. There are signs as I write that LittleBigPlanet may be beginning to come back online, with some users reporting that they've been able to connect although I've been unable to myself — but even if and when the servers do return, the silence around this issue doesn't inspire hope for the inevitable moment when LittleBigPlanet is deemed less necessary to fix.
It speaks to the inherent problem of being a devoted fan of an older, online-focused game. This will likely only be the beginning of this problem. Right now, a group of LittleBigPlanet players are part of an unwilling first wave of that movement — and they just want to know why they can't play their chosen games.
No one is telling them. LittleBigPlanet 3. LittleBigPlanet 2. The increasing powerlessness of the nostalgic gaming fan. By Joe Skrebels Updated: 26 Apr pm.
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