"In April 2024, Sony and developer Sumo Digital announced that the servers for the PlayStation 4 version of LittleBigPlanet 3 were being "decommissioned" for good. This announcement was made just after the servers were "temporarily" shut down in January 2024, which the official LittleBigPlanet account attributed to "a number of issues." These "issues" ended up being the same wave of DDoS attacks that had plagued the PlayStation 3 version of the game."
"The PlayStation 4 version of LittleBigPlanet 3 was the last version of the game with online support, as the servers for the PlayStation Vita version of LittleBigPlanet had gone offline in 2021. Of course, the LittleBigPlanet series as a whole almost entirely revolves around user-created stages, so fans have been looking for a way to host private servers ever since LittleBigPlanet 3 kicked the bucket."
"By downloading a file to a USB drive and plugging it into your PlayStation 4 or 5, you could reportedly download a custom map that would allow you to access privately hosted servers in LittleBigPlanet 3, and you didn't even need to jailbreak your PlayStation of choice to pull it off. According to Ayee's post, LBPOnline was supposed to officially roll out on May 4."
"As it turns out, in the days leading up to LBPOnline's release, the community turned on Ayee. The post above alleged that both Ayee and a user known as Epic, who were both working on the LBPOnline project, were two of the people behind the DDoS attacks that had taken down the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 version."
Sony and Sumo Digital permanently decommissioned LittleBigPlanet 3's PS4 servers in April 2024 following DDoS attacks that had also affected the PS3 version. Since the franchise relies heavily on user-created content, the community sought alternatives. Content creator Ayee announced LBPOnline in March 2024, a solution allowing players to access privately hosted servers via USB without jailbreaking their console. The project was scheduled for May 4 release but never materialized. Community members accused Ayee and another developer named Epic of being involved in the DDoS attacks that destroyed the official servers, leading to the project's cancellation.
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