The PlayStation Network outage hasn't harmed LittleBigPlanet's online community, according to Media Molecule creative director Mark Healey. After the outage, in which Sony took its online service down for several days in April and May, the number of players online in the community-focused LBP games surged due to PSN users downloading the first LittleBigPlanet game for free as part of Sony's welcome back package. The PSN outage didn't harm the LBP community, according to the game's creators.