Despite a significant social media campaign from vocal fans, Sony shut down Gravity Rush 2’s servers overnight. The title was originally meant to go offline in January, just a year after its original release. However online pressure prompted the platform holder to reconsider, and fans were given an additional six months to partake in online activities.
That time is now up, and you can no longer enjoy the asynchronous features in Kat’s sophomore effort. It’s worth noting that the title is still fully playable, and all of the Trophies can be unlocked without the multiplayer modes – although Dusty Tokens are now very difficult to acquire, meaning that certain outfits and items can no longer be obtained.
There had been some hope that, as a compromise, the manufacturer would patch the title making said items available to everyone – but there’s no word on it doing that just yet. While it’s true that the game’s online features were superfluous and likely rarely used, Sony really shouldn’t be shutting servers down this soon after release. It’s a bad look.
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Booted out the Push Square character tournament and now this.
In the end, I only got about 3000 dusty tokens
I hope sony patch it but I don't think they bother.
What the hell was the online mode about anyway?
Huh, it doesn't look like Kratos has any online servers to be shut down, huh, Kat?!
On a serious note though, why did they shut it down so soon?
A moment of silence please.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd7b2v9T1Dw
Take that Kat!
Where's your fanbase now boiiii??
Mwahahahaha
@Giygas_95 Why did they drop the Vita so fast? Vita TV? Wonderbook? PS Mobile?
It didn't make enough money. Long and short of it. Business is business.
Arrogance, pure arrogance. This needs needs to be fixed. The game didn’t bomb right? It really needs to come come back online. The fact that items in the game are unobtainable now is simply unacceptable.
@Knuckles-Fajita Guess money really does drive everything.
One of my favorite games recently, it makes me really sad that it didn’t sell well.
You can play the game without the online feature, the only thing that Sony should do is make the outfits and items available for everyone.
Gravity Rush series is an amazing experience.
I havent played the game, so may be talking out of term here but why do companies still insist on tacking on "online" when its either done poorly or as an after thought?
@Giygas_95 Captalism 101 baby
@jaz007 Sadly it did bomb, for all the support it got online it just never translated into sales.
Ah well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. The second game will always be my GotY for 2017 and a gem in my PS4 library.
Never did get all of the tokens. If they did patch the game, they should just have the token items be unlocked through story progression. Just my 2 cents.
@Knuckles-Fajita The Vita held on for a while all things considered. Those are also more expensive. Asking for online serves to be kept up is not asking for more triple AAA Vita game. In fact, this is more comparable to Vita’s online being shut down. It won’t cost Sony a huge amount and they buy trust by keeping it up. I know I can trust Sony when I buy one of their games, as opposed to right now where I can’t with what they’re doing.
@Giygas_95 Because no one was playing it and the online features were a waste of time anyway. I don't know why they even bothered developing them.
@Giygas_95 Do you remember the 3DS uTurn? People admit now that if Sony did that and stood by their product and believed in it, things would be different.
Heck, showing you'll stay committed even when its futile is a good thing in the long run. Hell just looj at SEGA.
32X iw our 32 bit system! Followed a year later by Saturn...then Dreamcast.
@Knuckles-Fajita Agreed. I deleted my other comment because I felt like it wasn't a very good comparison. There's a lot more riding on a home console than an online service.
@Knuckles-Fajita "Do you remember the 3DS uTurn? People admit now that if Sony did that and stood by their product and believed in it, things would be different."
Nintendo has Pokemon and Super Mario and its handheld business has historically been its bread and butter. Sony would have been wasting its money.
Vita is still just about alive after six years, it's had a fine lifespan for a total flop. But we've had this discussion.
@get2sammyb Sony has Uncharted, God of War, and many talented studios. Making great games people want to play is it's bread and butter.
@Giygas_95 The past is the past. This is simply the future, even when its all streamed like so many people want. That server goes? The game goes with it. Except here its only parts of games.
@Knuckles-Fajita Still they have to patch it content is now unobtainable.
We won't be getting another one of these games.
There goes one of the few first-party Sony franchises I actually enjoy.
@get2sammyb Then release a patch to unlock the content. If you would buy the game now you will buy a incomplete game. I bought the game in the release but i have a massive backlog so it would be nice to get everything i payed for. Even the first Tomb Raider reboot had a way to unlock the online stuff and the servers where almost dead.
I did my last apple hunts as a goodbye since I already got over 6000 Dusty Tokens. Still, such a shame it ended up like this. Thanks for the good vibes, Gravity fans!
Good. Hope they patch in an error message that makes Kratos pop up instead now when you try to go online in the game.
Seriously though this is a bit of a shame. Doesn't affect me personally, but I know that it will be gutting to some.
I was kinda interested in getting this, but lost all interest the first time they announced shutting down the servers. There's plenty of other games I'd like to play, so I can easily cross off games from my list that do irritating things like this.
If they patch it so items are less impossible to get, then I might reconsider getting this.
I'll still get this game. While I hate relying on online to unlock stuff, I don't usually care about unlocking every costume and bonus item, etc... Sony shouldn't have designed the game like that in the first place.
@3MonthBeef For the whole PSN infrastructure?
@CK97 There were three different components to it:
Challenges, where you could challenge other people in challenge missions, wherein you'd submit your score or time (depending on the challenge) and others would compete against it (complete with the ghosts of the challengers doing what they did when they did the challenge).
You could take and submit a photo for a rating. When you're out and about in the game's world you might stumble across photos from others (marked by a ghost standing or floating), see it, and give it basically a like or dislike.
And finally the treasure hunts - arguably the most interesting. About every 12 hours, you'd get 4 (or 8 if you've progressed to a certain point in the game) treasure chest hints. Activate one, and your warped to a random part of the world and you're tasked with trying to find the treasure chest, with only a photo of it from another player to go by. This mode was a lot of fun, as finding those chest can be rather tricky as they could be anywhere (including walls and ceilings) on a floating island. And once you've found it, you can take a pic of it yourself (while trying to get any landmarks to help track it in frame too) and send it off to be used by another player.
Almost all of the above rewarded you with Dusty Tokens in some way. Winning challenges netted you a good amount (with a tiny bit for tying and even less for losing). Rating a photo gives you a tiny amount, but getting a nice (liked) rating gives you a lot more. Submitting a treasure hint gives you a tiny amount, but having someone successfully use your hint gives you a lot. Actually opening the chest doesn't give you tokens, but instead a reward of some kind (most of which were unique to chests).
...I suppose all of this should have been written in past tense, now. Alas...
I had hoped Kat's position in the tournament might have given Sony some pause, not to mention all the folks who have been campaigning for the game to stay online, but unfortunately it just wasn't to be.
That's what you get for rallying against Kratos.
Karma served
@Knuckles-Fajita Nintendo had to stand by the 3DS. Sony had the PS4 to fall back on, Nintendo had... the Wii U..?
I never went online & still got the platinum within a week.
This is blown out of proportion, but Sony could've just kept the servers on.
Dumb manouver in my opinion!
They could boost the playerbase by giving it as a freebie on ps plus! They didn't right? I bought it on a sale so I don't quite remember...
But yeah, this game is a niche game but has so many good things about it! Sony can't think only about big games cause a part of their audience is in it for these weird games...
Hopefully they patch the game so you can get everything and they don't give up on the franchise Gravity Rush is an amazing and unique game
Absolutely pathetic, considering you have to pay a subscription fee to play online. And they don't even keep the servers up for 2 years?! What is PSN Plus even for then? Just a complete scam.
@Knuckles-Fajita Those don't sell enough hardware, unlike Pokemon alone.
@RainbowGazelle That's quite the exaggeration.
@naruball Care to elaborate?
Normally I'll stand by Sony even during some of their more controversial moments, but I cannot support this decision under any circumstances. I absolutely adore the Gravity Rush series and consider both among my most favorite games, especially 2. I think they're some of the most unique games out there today. This does make me incredibly concerned if we'll ever see a Gravity Rush 3 as neither game really sold well and shutting down servers this early screams a vote of no confidence from Sony management. I'm hoping that we'll see Grav Rush 3 at some point on the PS5 (or Vita 2 if that ever happens), but I have my doubts after this fiasco.
@Neolit
“Played the first one on Vita. What a great game...GR2 bought as well after screaming for more all that time!
Still did not start it. Now, the servers are off and all I can think of is "good riddance".”
Lol. Neo, my salty friend, I know you’re still quite upset about Kratos falling in the tournament, but you’re not making sense. You liked the game. Why good riddance?
@RainbowGazelle Your not paying Plus for Gravity Rush's online features. Your paying it for the upkeep of the PSN infrastructure and Plus games.
@AFCC That's actually a really good idea. It'd make for a great Plus game and if anything could help the future of the series, it would be that.
@adf86 So we're paying Sony for the privilege of keeping a note of our purchases? Better not let shops like Amazon onto this or they might start charging us just for keeping our order history up. And so much for PS Plus games being "free".
@RainbowGazelle Interestingly enough, you didn't need PS Plus to access the online features of any of the Gravity Rush games. Still sad though.
At least sony can compensate with giving those dusty token items via free dlc bonus, i hope.
Dont think the online system needed in first place.
@Jaz007 yup! Sad how they basically killed the franchise!
I hope they patch the costumes in
This really sucks for me, as I bought the remaster and sequel on sale. I recently finished the remaster but they shut the servers down for GR2 before I could even try them out. Bah...
@kyleforrester87 Why are you acting like this?
@Nickfan1 it’s the way she goes.
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