These days, discussions about video game ownership dominate the gaming discourse. What happens when publishers shut down the servers of old games? What is the legal situation? What can we change about it in the future? Such questions are being discussed and debated more heatedly than ever before.
Ubisoft in particular has come up with the end of The Crew put it in a big faux pas here. Admittedly, it is not the first time that the group has… makes him unpopular with the fan base. But what happens when a company closes the servers of its title, even though that's not even in the company's intention? What happens when there seems to be no other choice?
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When did Little Big Planet 3 come out?
With Little Big Planet 3 (buy now €23.90 ) The third part of Sony's popular series for the Playstation 4 and Playstation 3 came onto the market in 2014. The online functions of the creative construction kit allowed you to access the user content of all three titles. This option has recently become a thing of the past.
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In January, the servers were temporarily taken offline due to technical problems. Not a novelty for the title, like us around as early as 2021 reported. Quite surprisingly, the news came that the temporary stop of the online functions would probably become a permanent one. But why is that?
Why is Little Big Planet 3 no longer online?
“Due to technical issues that caused the Little Big Planet 3 servers on PS4 to go offline in January 2024, the decision has been made to keep the servers offline until further notice“, said the team on Twitter. Although you can play user content that you have already downloaded, you can no longer download new content.
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According to IGN, a lot of the fan community's levels are essentially lost as a result. So they are probably over 10 million projects, which you could have downloaded by the end of 2023, is now offline. It remains to be seen how the franchise will continue on the Playstation 5 under the auspices of Sony.
Sources: Insider Gaming, IGN