PSN outage helped LittleBigPlanet, says Media Molecule

Rabbid 1: PS3? Rabbid 2: Check! Rabbid 1: Imagination? Rabbid 2: errr.... Check!

I'm too late for the free giveaway...dang...

Love LBP, indeed a great game!

I can't believe I missed out on that freebie. ;___;

People on this site seriously cant take a joke ?.....i wonder what goes down here on april fools

"It's natural. The welcome program had only 2 games worth picking (LBP1 and Infamous 1), so everyone who didn't have them got those." And in some countrys Sony wasn't even allowed to give away Infamous 1 for free regarding country's law due to it beeing 18+ and they replaced it with utter casual gamer crap instead. So, no wonder.

I'm not surprised, in some countrys with way too overprotective youth protection laws about "dangerous media", like mine, Little Big Planet was actually the only good and interesting full core gamers game at all

It's natural. The welcome program had only 2 games worth picking (LBP1 and Infamous 1), so everyone who didn't have them got those.

I picked up Infamous and LBP as part of the "Welcome Back." I have hardly played LBP so far, and I'm not sure what I think of it. I'm sure it's a great game based on what I've seen, it just isn't drawing me to it.

I downloaded LBP because I either already owned the other games or had zero interest in them. All I can say is that I'm glad I didn't pay for it. What an excruciatingly boring game. At least I know now to pass on anything LBP in the future.

Yeahhhh. Love Little Big Planet :) Glad to see so many folks took the free offer and ended up enjoying it.

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That was seriously a good simile.

Nothing says "Made in Britain" quite like Stephen Fry lovingly teaching you how to build levels.

i hadn't played the game in a while and after returning back to it, i began to remember the amount of creativity in the community. I watched a trailer for an absolutely EPIC fps level, a 50 minute long movie someone made, and played through an engaging sewer level . . . all i can say is . . . imagination is the limit, especially with LBP

LBP is a great game. I hope a lot of people that didn't own the game chose it as part of their free games.

Turns on the PS3, see a DVD under games, its say "Black Ops", takes out DVD, destroys DVD, looks in downloaded games, sees LittleBigPlanet, presses X, smiley face :D

I just wished I was a better creater! :)

Lol. So much negativity on this topic.

@taino1128, hackers could have sold or cc info.. lucky for us they did it just to show sony they could do it.. they didnt do it to use our cc to steal our money. sony knew they did it 2 whole weeks before they even told us!! then they gave us almost the worst games to choose from.. only way it coulda got worse is if they gave us pain, haze, that sky diving game,folklore and wipeout without the packs... sony shoulda had to give all our money back for what we spent on the ps3 and our games for not protecting our info....

@LOWJ000 ... Lol the name sackboy sounds so wrong XD

I'd say Media Molecule deserves it. They're unique, imaginative games are just incredible.

I wasn't able to play online games for about three weeks. I then got LBP for free as a result. I must say, it was more than worth it!

thumbs up if you cant wait for little big planet on the Vit

Honestly, I was disappointed by LBP. Way too much hype. Then again, I got it for free, so it certainly isn't a big deal.

i downloaded for both ps3 and psp...... all i can say is i wish they had better games to choose from. this is way to boring for my tastes

@Triton - You DO attract a new audience with free sandwich day, even if 10 of the 100 people come back again and again, you did gain 10 more regular customers that you didn't have before.

So now we know who was behind the PSN hacking. Sackboy u devious little attention seeker, you're great enough as is, no need to resort to these extreme measures for popularity !!!

Thanking the hackers i see ...careful

@triton that analogy doesn't really work here because food is a constant thing you pay for while the game was a one time fee that lasts as long as you want it to. If they like the game they may be more inclined to buy DLC or another game in the series.

Yep just like a restaurant that hands out a free sandwich sees a major surge in the amount of folks that start eating there all the time. - More like only when they hand it out for free...once the free goes away , so do they.

Well if you think about it thousands of people who hadn't ever picked up the game were able to try the full version free, and because of this probably went on to get LBP2 and will probably continue on with LBP3 it actually makes a lot of sense and I can see in the long run it helping push more sales for LBP3. Obviously it would have been better to sell them rather then give away but I think this will help sony out.

I didn't chose LBP as one of the welcome back games. I chose Infamous and Dead Nation. After play Dead Nation I realized I made a mistake. My cousin had showed me the awesomeness of LBP and I was fairly dissapointed i didn't download it. So I went out and bought it because it's one of the most awesome PS3 titles out there. Long live LBP

I thought this game was boring.

"Sony took its online service down for several days in April and May" I think that's stretching the definition of "several days" by juuuuuuuuuust a bit.

People play free games? Who da thunk it?

Good work LBP communtity!!

I'm so glad I got LBP as one of the free welcome back games!

This isn't surprising. Of course people are going to play a game that's free.

I'm definitly getting the vita and LBP for it :D

Sony may have given LBP away for free, but the developer certainly got paid. I know LBP is a hit game, but I wouldn't base it's current status/success or it's next game off of the recent free give-away. That's asinine.

not sure if this is something worth bragging about.