Sony’s online shutdown of older LittleBigPlanet games is being shut down to ‘protect the community’ • Eurogamer.net

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Sony has permanently closed online services for older LittleBigPlanet games “to protect the LittleBigPlanet community”.

In a statement issued this afternoon, Sony said that the online services of LittleBigPlanet, LittleBigPlanet 2, LittleBigPlanet 3 (PS3) and LittleBigPlanet PS Vita are all offline forever after a long period of downtime.

At the same time, Sony has updated LittleBigPlanet 3 to bring the LittleBigPlanet server and all levels of community 10 meters or more online for PlayStation 4 users only.

The news comes after a difficult year for LittleBigPlanet. In April, Eurogamer reported how community content for various games in the LittleBigPlanet series remained largely out of reach six weeks after PlayStation acknowledged server issues.

LittleBigPlanet 3 on PS3, released November 2014.

Community members who spoke to Eurogamer for a report back in March blamed an ongoing DDOS campaign orchestrated by a specific individual unhappy with Sony’s treatment of the franchise.

Recently, LittleBigPlanet users reported abusive in-game error messages without warning. Sony then disabled LittleBigPlanet’s servers due to the ongoing attacks. We now know that servers won’t be back for everyone except LittleBigPlanet 3 on PS4.

“We would like to apologize for the long downtime of the LittleBigPlanet server and want to thank you all for your patience while we work on this issue,” Sony said in its statement released today.

“We have no doubt that this news will be disappointing to many of you, and ultimately this is the best way to protect the LittleBigPlanet community and to help ensure our online environment remains safe.”

Update on LittleBigPlanet server and online services: pic.twitter.com/vUrvHcZvIs

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Sony has clarified that any community content previously posted to the server via LBP1/LBP2/LBP3 on PS3 will still be available on LittleBigPlanet 3 on PS4.

And you can still play the story modes and DLC level pack for LittleBigPlanet 1, LittleBigPlanet 2, and LittleBigPlanet 3 on PS3 in single player or local co-op.

LittleBigPlanet fans reacted sadly to the news, criticizing Sony for not providing gamers with advance notice.

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