Super Mario Maker fans got to say goodbye to their game, but Sony just unceremoniously pulled the plug on LittleBigPlanet and 16 years of community creations

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It's a bad time to enjoy platformers built on community level creations, as LittleBigPlanet 3 servers have shut down just a week after sꦑupport for Wii U serꦚvers and Super Mario Maker were killed. But while Nintendo fans got tꦇo say goodbye to the❀ir game, the death of LittleBigPlanet came as a sudden shock.

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:All LittleBigPlanet serve🌱rs went offline in 2021 in the midst of hacks that were bombarding players with offensive content. Later that year, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Little🦋BigPla🌼net 3 was brought back online, and since served as the only way fans could access 16 years worth of community-made levels dating back to the original 2008 game. Then, in J🥃anuary 2024, the devs announced that LittleBigPlanet 3♊ was once again going offline "temporarily."

. "All online services including access to other players' creations for LittleBigPlanet 3 are no longer available." 

It's an unceremonious end for a 16 year legacy of community content. Any such server shutdown comes as an ultimately understandable business decision, but equally, they're all distressing blows for game preservation. The timing means I can't help but think of the Super Mario Maker shutdown, which players had loads of advance notice for, leading to one of ⛄the coolest community efforts in recent memory.

Meanwhile, LittꦇleBigPlanet - a more robust creation engine that predated Mario Maker by years - dies with a whꦿimper. Community members that resource servers, the servers that actually house levels and other player-made content, are currently still online, but with the game servers offline there's no way to access them. Still, some are holding out a faint glimmer of hope that maybe those levels will come back someday. I know I've got my fingers crossed for a LittleBigPlanet revival down the line, but I can't help feeling this is truly the end for one of PlayStation's greatest games.

There are plenty of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming PS5 games for you to enjoy in the near future before it all turns to despair in another decade. 

Dustin Bailey
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with oc❀casional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since ⭕2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.