"Sony just unceremoniously pulled the plug on LittleBigPlanet and 16 years of community creations"

[kane_magus]

Full headline, because reasons: "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"

"The temporary shutdown is now permanent"

I only ever played the first LittleBigPlanet game(EDIT)[1](/EDIT), way back when I still had a PS3 (which hasn't been the case for almost a full decade now), and it was okay, though I never really got into the "community creations" aspect of it. Since then, I haven't even really thought of the series much at all, until now. As such, this does not directly affect me.

That said, even so, this sucks, even just in principle. Just yet another shitty example of the Glorious Digital Future of the modern video game industry.

(EDIT)

[1] - Wait, no, I also had the PSP version, or at least so says my hasn't-been-touched-in-almost-a-decade-now Backloggery page. I shall defer to it over my own memory.

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Comments

[owsf2000]

Fairly certain I have the first LBP game although probably played it once... and that was probably watching my nephew play it honestly. I didn't buy it myself, pretty sure it came as a pack-in with either the console or something else. So yeah I'm not too concerned about them dropping everything - it's pretty much what I expect Sony to do at this point after the way they handled both their handheld attempts.

But yeah it's definitely another Exhibit to add to the evidence of what the digital only game industry age means for game preservation. Pretty sure that's their private wet dream of a future as well. The thought of forcing people to buy their latest turd of a game simply because anything they did better can simply be wiped out so the only alternative ends up being not playing anything at all.

Of course, at some point this will end up turning around to bite them on the ass when they see more and more gamers that would otherwise have paid a few hundred for a game just walk away and do something else.

[kane_magus]

I remember LBP being... okay? Ish? Honestly, I don't really remember much of anything about it, other than the comment I made in my Backloggery about it having a wheel on a bunker level or something which apparently sucked...? It was mostly just an otherwise bog standard platformer with a cutesy aesthetic, as best as I can recall now. *shrug*