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LBP Live Server Update: It's Like SOCOM With Fewer Guns

Added by Jeff on Oct. 27, 2008 48 comments

OK, stop smiling. Seriously, I just feel like you're mocking me now.

The rough online launches continue for Sony tonight as the LittleBigPlanet servers have been turned on and, probably due to being slammed by users, seem to barely work.

So far, it's been a chore getting lists of levels to load at all, and now that I've managed to get the "Cool Levels" option to start returning results, none of the user levels I'm attempting to play are actually loading.

On top of that, the menus feel very laggy, seizing up from time to time like they're waiting for some nugget of online information and having a very hard time squeezing it out of the server. Totally bummed out over here. Really wanted to see what levels people have been cooking up.

Anyone out there having a smooth experience tonight?

Filed under : LittleBigPlanet, PlayStation 3

49 Comments

JJOR64
on Oct. 27, 2008

That doesn't sound good.... I'm going to pick this game up Wed.

DavidSnakes
on Oct. 27, 2008

Xbox Live fee feeling vindicated, at least from these two games.

chililili is online
on Oct. 27, 2008

I played it in the morning and it was a breeze and pretty fun, as the day progressed it ogt unbelievably laggy, to the point which I almost though my ps3 was broken. If you disconnect fromt he internet you can play the single-player though, which is pretty damn funny. The sad thing is that event he single-player gets laggy as LBP uses a lot the internet even in single-player (for allowing people to join in at anytime, it tells you hwo many people ar eplaying a level, and keeps you pretty updated on ALL the things your friends are doing, if they are playing, if they broke a record, if they got a trophy, I have reviewed the game already if you wan to read it.)

Milkman
on Oct. 27, 2008

Wonderful...Learn to maintain servers, Sony!

brew
on Oct. 27, 2008

Hopefully they get things ironed out for you , there are a lot of great penis levels up already just waiting to be played.

Standing_Gopher
on Oct. 27, 2008

Definitely having problems here, too. It seemed to work pretty well earlier in the day, then later in the night the servers must have gotten slammed and bogged down into lag hell.

LordAndrew
on Oct. 27, 2008

Sony knows how to do online right. ;-)

TheGamerGeek
on Oct. 27, 2008

God dang it, I'm getting this tomorrow, and it's gonna be laggy as hell? Great, just flippin great.

Classic_Gs
on Oct. 27, 2008

Sony's online continues to be a joke.

KillerFly
on Oct. 27, 2008

I haven't had any problems playing other people's levels at all today, but all of a sudden I can't load them.

StillAThreat
on Oct. 27, 2008

I played a couple of levels at around 7pm Pacific time. Choosing to play a level by myself seemed much easier than playing it online when others could join. By the way-- how creepy is it when someone you play with chooses to follow you back to your pod, and then just stares at you (maybe because of lag)? Answer: very creepy.

I'm a little troubled by what seemed to be some lag while loading one of my moon levels-- the server shouldn't even see those levels until i publish them, right?

MagusMaleficus
on Oct. 27, 2008

Shit, I'm not gonna have time to play this until Thanksgiving, so hopefully I'll avoid this mess. Not like I don't have enough games to keep me occupied until then...

Psynapse
on Oct. 27, 2008

Thats awesome, can we get the Far Cry 2 review now :P

John
on Oct. 27, 2008

It's times like these I bet sony would charge for online, servers a expensive, yo.

dcpc10
on Oct. 27, 2008

good thing i'm getting BOTH fallout 3 AND LBP tomorrow =D

Simsfreak14
on Oct. 27, 2008

What a shame... I always thought PSN games never worked properly.

BennytheDroid
on Oct. 27, 2008

sounds exactly like my experience over the last 5 hours. Simply pathetic, sony

fpsDoug
on Oct. 27, 2008

And this is exactly why PSN is free...

Junpei
on Oct. 27, 2008

I had no problems this afternoon when I picked my copy up, but just the last hour or two I couldn't connect at all. I doubt they can truthfully claim that they didn't expect such a large user base what with how much the game has been hyped and everything. Hopefully it'll be up and running soon.

gimmysumcowbel
on Oct. 27, 2008

many sony first Socom and now LBP.

thats pathetic.

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