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LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers Are Officially Shut Down Indefinitely, Sony Confirms (www.ign.com)
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RIP. I hope the levels were backed up.

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[–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

It's work to do anything, but we routinely see small indie studios managing to release player-hosted games just fine, while large studios don't bother. Even though it also costs them more to run all the servers on their own. So I'm not so sure it's just a matter of saving costs.