1y ago

LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers Are Officially Shut Down Indefinitely, Sony Confirms

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LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers Are Officially Shut Down 'Indefinitely,' Sony Confirms - IGN

RIP. I hope the levels were backed up.

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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.
Not quite as important as the right to repair, but similar in spirit: I would love to see a legal requirement that shut-down online games are either refunded or have their server specs released so that the community can revive/maintain them.
- stopkillinggames.com
  One of their ideas is allow private match/self hosted online services for any game that shuts down it's servers.
  
  honestly copyright law shouldn't apply to games that are no longer fully playable for any reason
  
  shutting down most central servers is a death sentence anyway. I'm not putting another decade of grinding into a private server when my Diablo 3 characters are gone.
- 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.
  
  This is not enough, the code is old with vulnerabilities
  You have misunderstood. I am not talking about continuing to run the old server binaries.
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.
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.
Welcome to the world of tomorrow. Who we all helped to make.
- This is fun because I have no idea what this is because I was immediately bombarded with ads.
  
  Guy shouts “welcome to the world of tomorrow” from Futurama EP 1 when Fry gets unfrozen.
  Could have been an image with a caption.
Thanks a lot, Biden! _\/s

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