The war in the LittleBigPlanet community continues, forcing the popular series’ servers offline once again. Earlier in the year, we reported how one fan believed to be frustrated with the franchise’s future had launched a DDOS attack on LittleBigPlanet 3, causing an outage for upwards of six weeks. Now, a user is claiming a #LittleBigVictory after injecting offensive messages into other peoples’ games.
It’s worth stressing that this isn’t a case of said user uploading unpleasant content within the title; instead, they appear to have gained access to the release’s notifications system, which they’re using to share the controversial comments.
Understandably, Sony has had to take the servers offline, and shared the following statement:
https://twitter.com/LittleBigPlanet/status/1396059056939446276
Of course, all this means even more downtime for a franchise that still has a dedicated and passionate community trying to enjoy it. The platform holder does appear to be committed to fixing the problems, which is ultimately a good thing – after all, it’d be a real shame if these ongoing attacks prompted PlayStation to consider cutting its losses.
[source twitter.com, via eurogamer.net]
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Why would anybody hate Sackboy?
Little Bit Unhinged 👀
Seriously, who the heck would hack a kids' game with such foul language and transphobic hate speech?
Why the game security is so bad? Also sony should port little big planet 1/2/3 to ps4/5 so they can use more modern security.
Sucks for the little ones who play this game :/
The hateful content is unbelievably transphobic in substance. Imagine going to these lengths just to go on a bigoted rant. Utterly deplorable.
It's already bad to be transphobic but to share your hate on one of the purest of pure games on ps3 is just horrible!
I don’t get what his aim is? He is frustrated at the future of the franchise but all he is doing is hastening the end of those titles by the looks of it. I seriously think the world would be better off if we write the internet off as a failed experiment. Too many people can’t be trusted.
@wiiware
LBP3 is on PS4, and can be played on PS5 via BC.
@Arugula
Indeed, but then the word fan is a shortening of fanatic after all. Sadly awful behaviour by so called fans is not so uncommon these days.
What sort of sad sack
boywould you need to be to do something like this? :/@Waffles12415 You're no different if you start blaming ''xbox users'' without any evidence.
Get a life. Do something positive with your time. Don't ruin someone else's fun.
What a victory taking down the gameservers and giving the fans no way to play the game. Great way to force Sony to shutdown the servers because its not worth the hassle.
Why is the fan salty? Sackboy just came out recently.
There are some seriously sad people in this world, get a life its a game, jog on and do something memorable with your life not spoil everyone else's no matter who the person is, a ps4 user, a xbox user and so on....
@jorel262 exactly👏🏻
@lacerz I like the first two games better because it's made by it's original creator, media molecule.
@Robinsad "I hate that this game was screwed over by its publisher! Guess I'll make the developers disable the servers!"
Why hackers do what they do: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=16_qGoEN-oY
These douche bags really tick me off...to qoute my favorite pantera song "just gimme 5 minutes alone"
What is up with this fan? Seriously
No comment - even my snark levels fail me.
@Octane Did Waffles delete their post?
@nessisonett Why is it that the most toxic of people are also the most bigoted?. I'm genuinely lost on understanding these people.
@Voltan this is a cruel world we are living in
These people need to get a life. This is just pathetic in every conceivable way.
@nessisonett I haven't gotten around to playing the game yet and going by this it's just as well. I hope this bigoted piece of ***** gets caught.
These kinda people really need to get out more.
It is super joke... One person can screw whole server. And than... again. One person... If there were three, they could screw whole PSN? C'mon SONY, now you look like bunch of monkeys.
@djlard
I believe one person can do that to just about any service. The fact that tech engineers can't find a solution to permanently find a why to stop this is what's preventing it from happening.
@Residentsteven thats the attitude..because you dont like the games or the publisher that makes it ok then..i dont really like the games that much but this sucks..what if one of your fave games had its servers targetted like this would you be happy if everybody had the same outlook? How about showing a liitle bit of compassion to all the people this little ***** has disrupted and offended with his/hers outdated trash talk and actions...
@Northern_munkey some people are, unfortunately, completely self-centered.
@HeeHo I think they tried and they failed, so now they stay home trying to get some "joy" out of making others feel sad/upset.
Hopefully this will make people a bit more wary of (always) online nonsense. All server-based online modes can potentially be exploited, and for Sony to be bested by one very dedicated nutter in this case is rather embarrassing.
@Loftimus I dont know why this behaviour would be good at any level.
Sack-ed Boy?
Oooh Boy!
@Residentsteven This shows what kind of people there are around.
@Milt This is what happens, when people sit at home all day, with no friends and hating life, they end up just making everyone else's life miserable.. What a sad state of affairs....
It would appear that the suspect is now in custody:
@Milt
Someone people are just sad. So very sad.
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