LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers Are Officially Shut Down Indefinitely, Sony Confirms
Sony has confirmed that LittleBigPlanet 3 servers on PlayStation 4 will remain offline “indefinitely” following troubles with the service from earlier this year.
RIP. I hope the levels were backed up.
Not a week comes by without a reminder about https://www.stopkillinggames.com/
'member when we were able to self host servers of our games? I member. CoD4 was awesome because of that, later the pirated version of MW2 too. These games (the first MW and MW2) are still alive because of that.
Is Enemy Territory still alive?
Cod WAW has user servers but they stopped paying for their anti cheat so vanilla servers either block you or are fudged
Plutonium fixes this
we should push for them to release server software
Not quite as important as the right to repair, but close in spirit: I would love to see a legal requirement for shut-down online games to release the server specs needed for the community to replace/maintain them.
Edit: And data export for existing players, so our game progress can be reconstructed on community servers, of course.
One of their ideas is allow private match/self hosted online services for any game that shuts down it's servers.
This is not enough, the code is old with vulnerabilities that will be exploited with automation nowadays. To correctly do this you need open source server code, or to have it maintained.
I really hope that governments, especially the EU, recognise the isse server shutdowns and games being lost to history poses. It should be illegal for companies to make your already purchased games unplayable if not community hosted alternatives exist.
On that note it should also be fully legal to emulate and freely distribute any game that isn't on sale anymore. Years of cultural history are being destroyed for corporate profit.
What any corporation hears:
[some noise] for corporate profit
I don't really expect a business to be forced to run a game in perpetuity, but at least they shouldn't be allowed to C&D you from doing it if they aren't.
I agree. Hell, older games could be put on digital stores right now. The PS3 had a ton of PS1 emulated classics, and even then there were a bunch left off for unknown (or licensing) reason.
If you're playing on ps3 or emulation you can play online using lbpunion.com they're currently looking into ps4 support, but just know that it requires CFW.
Welcome to the world of tomorrow. Who we all helped to make.
We "all helped" as in people in charge gave us no choice and we didn't choose the choices we didn't have.
Hell, even then there's still people fighting to preserve and host games on their own regardless.
Sounds like they tried to patch some security vulnerabilities and it broke something so catastrophic that they would need do to a major re-write.
Does this also break the single player portion?
No. Just the online components.
Never played it, but this news is always sad, hopefully the community is in the works of archiving this, of already did.
Thanks a lot, Biden! \/s
Shame there wasn't more notice. I'm sure the community would have tried to do something.
I don't trust them as a company. They basically gave up on dreams even though it was actually a moderately successful product.
But they became really obsessed with their vision of what the product should be rather than adding the content that the player base wanted.
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