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LittleBigPlanet 3 Will Be Delisted At The End Of This Month

All LittleBigPlanet DLC will seemingly be gone too.

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Media Molecule has announced that LittleBigPlanet 3 will be delisted from the PlayStation Network Store on October 31, along with seemingly every single piece of DLC in the series.

"After 10 years of playing, creating, and sharing content in LittleBigPlanet 3, the game and our entire range of LittleBigPlanet DLC will be removed from the PlayStation Store on October 31, 2024," Media Molecule said in a statement on Twitter.

The studio also said that anyone who purchases the game or any LittleBigPlanet DLC will still be able to access it even after the content is removed from sale. It's important to note that DLC from LittleBigPlanet and LittleBigPlanet 2 are compatible with LittleBitPlanet 3. While it seems like the entirety of LittleBigPlanet's DLC will be gone, GameSpot has reached out for clarification.

Servers for the PS3 version of LittleBigPlanet 3 closed permanently in 2021 because of DDOS attacks. Earlier in January, Media Molecule temporarily took the PS4 servers offline while it investigated reported issues. However, the studio made the decision in April to indefinitely keep the servers down due to ongoing technical issues.

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Sad state of affairs. It's a huge shame those games didn't take off better than they did.

I honestly think the failing point was LBP2's circuit system, they made creation way too complicated for the average person, it was basically on par with today's visual code systems. The result was all these insane projects where people were making raycasting engines and first person shooters and stuff and I think it chased off a lot of players.

The first game was simplistic but you could do really fun stuff. If you wanted to automate things you had to make clockwork machines that were complicated but not as brain twisting.

Then LBP3 was just kind of a mess, probably for being out of the original developers' hands.

Anyway, I do hope some day someone makes a knockoff version of LBP without so much online dependency. There is currently just Restitched which originally was a PC port of LBP but got C&D'd. It's apparently still seeing active development so hopefully it ends up being good, but they've got a pretty big anti-modding anti-external-content stance where they intend to actively have anything that's not in the game by default taken down, so my hopes aren't very high long term.

At the end of the day though it's just more Sony anti-consumer stuff. If they actually cared they'd subsidize their history but instead they're going the Nintendo route of actively destroying their past to force you into their vision of the future again.

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@Xylymphydyte: I'm inclined to agree with you, as I preferred the simplicity of LBP1 too. I wasn't very fond of most of the non-platformer levels made in LBP2 after the novelty wore off. I think the most fun I've had with the series was with bomb survivals in the first game, both playing them and making them.

But I don't know if that was a failing point at all for most people. I think the popular sentiment is that LBP2 is better, and even though I prefer the first game, I still loved 2 a lot too.

It was when they made LBP3 that the community really got split. That game caused irreparable damage. I never bought LBP3, for some of the reasons you mentioned. It wasn't made by Media Molecule, reviews said it was buggy, I thought the new sock characters looked kinda ugly, and it just seemed like a pointless sequel to me.

Also worth mentioning that before LBP3, they dug Sackboy's grave when they made "LittleBigPlanet Karting", which was a rip-off of ModNation Racers on the same console. I dunno what they were thinking after LBP2 honestly.

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i wonder how much it is costing them to keep the game up for sale vs how much they are making from it.

they should be transparent about that to consumers

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Stop killing video games, for ****’s sake. 🤦🏻

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