What was given is over… And never better said! The LittleBigPlanet trilogy becomes offline, and that completely breaks with its philosophy and its maximum appeal as a game. In September 2021, the servers for the PS3 and PS Vita deliveries were closed and now it is the turn of a LittleBigPlanet 3 tailored for PS4 and inherited by PS5 via backward compatibility. However, the particular thing about this initiative is that it has been the final solution to problems that have been occurring in the game for months, giving rise to the big question: What will happen to the players’ creations?
First things first, the appeal of LittleBigPlanet 3 It involves playing as the cheerful Sackboy, creating new content and sharing it with all players, increasing replayability and possibilities to infinity. He even opened the door to his own Mario Maker! In January 2024, those three axes of the experience were reduced to two after “continued technical problems” with the servers, as reported by Sumo Digital. The proposed solution? Three months later It has been decided to close the servers indefinitely
As can be read in the tienda de PlayStation Networkit has been confirmed that the creations of LittleBigPlanet 3
In the same statement it is established that, although access to the CGU of LittleBigPlanet 3 uploaded to the servers, if we download the game we can create new content, although not share it. So we will have to do them manually on our console or look for tutorials on the internet to do them. More than a solution, it is a fix. An unnecessarily tedious one. But something is something.
“Due to ongoing technical issues that resulted in the LittleBigPlanet 3 PS4 servers temporarily going offline in January 2024, the decision has been made to take them offline indefinitely.
All online services, including access to other players’ LittleBigPlanet 3 creations, are no longer available.
User-generated content (UGC) stored locally on your PS4 console will continue to be available.
You will still be able to play new UGC that you create on your PS4 console, but it will not be shareable. Offline features such as campaigning will continue to be available.”
Although Sackboy is one of the biggest stars of PlayStation, since 2014 the character has been making leaps. Sometimes betting on safe formulas like with Sackboy: a big adventure and other times adapting to the formulas of mobile games with an Ultimate Sackboy that came out a little over a year ago. Media Molecule, its original creators, took a creative step further with Dreams, achieving spectacular results from the community. However, this month marks one year since support for the initiative stopped.
The creators of LittlebigPlanet 3 they did not forget thank the community for the welcome and support received throughout this last decade. What will happen next with good old Sackboy? What we are very clear about is that PlayStation has more and more icons and video game sagas of its own that deserve a great return. Or, at least, a second chance to shine on PC.
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