Everybody's Golf Falls Victim to Sony Online Server Cuts

That's a shame. Everybody's Golf was probably one of the few good recent multiplayer-focused outings from Sony. It even got some collab costumes from Level-5. Kinda understandable that they shut it down but gonna miss it. Definitely had a good run.

Since we also got that Hot Shot golf vr spinoff, here's hoping Sony will give it another shot (no pun intended) in the future.

It's difficult to know whether these games had no popular appeal or if Sony just didn't bother to promote them. This is a great game, but it seems really reasonable to shut down online functionality on old games that have hardly any players.

Ouch! This one hurts big time. My buddy and I play this to this day every now and then. It's the perfect chill game so this will definitely be missed!

I still enjoy popping this game in and playing a few rounds. Shame it has to come to this but on a business side I can understand. The player base for online is probably down to nothing.

Sony is so cheap with this. I don't see most companies shutting anything in the PS4 era off. Sony really needs to up their game here.

I will never get that hole in one trophy where you have to do it on a par 5. So many times i watched the ball agonisingly miss the hole. I gave up trying a long time ago but this news is the petrol influenced cremation funeral that i so needed!

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I maybe wrong but surely servers can't be that much to maintain especially if player count is already low. I mean they don't fill me with confidence with the 10 live services games they said they have in the works if people spending their money on games that they know will shut down, it's like what's the point.

Good luck with getting those condors without being able to go online.

They really should have added everybody's golf as a plus title to spring some life back in to it.

Brilliant wee game.

@BusyOlf It is possible - it just takes a lot of tries and more than a bit of luck

And this is why I don't want Sony making GAAS games. Stuck to your linar story driven games.

Amazing game and amazing series. I really hope we get another one and another VR game too.

Sony's blundering continues to bite. Killing off Japan Studio had many more consequences than Ryan and his minions could've foreseen though everybody else could.
Killing off PS4 games on a server though? That's a new low, even by the current management 'standards'.

So long Everybody's Golf - one of the Playstation's iconic titles killed off by Fony's continued stupidity.

Worst of all, I often go for a quick round at the weekend and the courses are still buzzing with players.

BYE BYE CONDOR TROPHY

I've dipped in and out of this since launch. Not tried the VR version yet. Easy to pick up but difficult to master and quirky as hell. A sad day!

Its a really fun game, played a lot with my wife in local multiplayer.

It's hopefully not an end to the series. I'd like another game with the classic single player formula of beating set characters in versus matches to unlock them.

I hope there's a future for this franchise. The character editor it has is surprisingly in-depth (I've been playing as Lupin III astride a Chocobo) and being able to roam the course is a fun bonus.

It’s worth mentioning that Clap Hanz Golf on Apple Arcade is AMAZING.

Not happy about this. I still pop on and play every so often, usually between 100 and 250 people playing online at any given time, so gotta say ***** Sony for killing the online.

@NG186 i certainly put the effort in trying but the near misses and waiting for the hole and course conditions to come around each day so it can be attempted wore my interest down.

@sanderson72
The game is 5 years old and the online population has fallen to just hundreds. Look at this four-year-old thread I am linking and even then the numbers had fallen as low as 600 simultaneously. They still supported it for 4 more years since then. Servers cost money you know and they cannot keep supporting every dead game eternally.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/836704-everybodys-golf/76014138

@Apfelschteiner
The game had only 600 players playing 4 years ago. They still supported it for four more years. I think that is more than enough.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/836704-everybodys-golf/76014138

@Jaz007
The player base had fallen in just hundreds just 1 year after release. The game was dead on arrival and they continued to support it for 4 more years. What more do you want? They cannot keep supporting and wasting money on every dead game eternally.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/836704-everybodys-golf/76014138

Great game loved it

Will miss this sooooo much. 😥

Sounds like a major blunder by Sony.

Gotta re-install and play it before it goes offline. Jokes on me for sitting on this game for so long.

I feel like I'm in the minority here, but Everybody's Golf was a huge disappointment for me compared to previous entries (and possibly Clap Hanz Golf, which I have yet to try).

Still sucks that the servers are going down.

The character models in this game were not as detailed as the PS3 game.

Darn what a shame. I just put together a 6-month plan to get into this games online community. Oh well.

Don't we pay these online subscriptions to help maintain these online servers? Makes no sense...

My buddy just loaded up Project Gotham 4 on the Xbox 360 - he’s still able to see high scores, race ghosts and even play online (if anyone else were on!).
Very tight from Sony.

@OneWingedAngel "Servers cost money"
Yep, isn't that what PS Plus is for?

@RainbowGazelle
Yes, but it's for games that are active and still being played. The game is 5 years old game and it had just 600 players 4 YEARS ago. I wonder what the number must be today if Sony is shutting it down. It is obvious that the game was already dead but they still supported it for four years. Why waste the money on keeping servers running for dead games when the same money can be spent on another game instead?

Sony want live service games but they like to cut server everytime there's trouble, compared that to microsoft that stick to their games (like sea of thieves), until the game is good and played by more people. Yeah, I don't trust sony with live service games.

Pretty sad to see another online multiplayer taken offline.

Nature of the beast I suppose.

@wiiware
Bro, it's a 5-year-old dead game. It had just 600 players even four years ago. It was dead just a year after release. Nobody is playing it online so they are shutting down the servers. You can still play it offline if you want.

@TheRedComet
It comes with the territory. When people stop playing, they shut down the servers. The games that are active still have their servers up and running. Fortunately, people can still play it offline like always.

I don't care about the online features. I've barely ever used them. But it and its predecessors have all been really fun games. Hopefully they eventually make another one for real and not just mobile.

@OneWingedAngel Hey man. Off Topic, But you can actually press reply on each of the comments you want to reply to and their names will appear here so you reply to all of them with just one comment

No need to repeat the same comment over and over like a over-scratched Vinyl

@Arkantos2990
I see. Thanks for the tip. I was wondering how can I do that.

@PlayStationGamer3919 Sadly you're 100% correct. Now don't get me wrong, it's still an outstanding game, just not on the same level as any of the HSG games. Seems like they were more focused on making an open world game than an actual golf game. They ditched all the zany and interesting characters for a horrible golfer creator that lacked the ability to make golfers truly unique. Courses just weren't as interesting as past games. Online play kinda sucked, miss the G1-G3 tourneys. I'd rather have an Out of Bounds 2. Lose the golf cart races and fishing and the custom clubs, and go back to what made the series so awesome. Definitely was 3 steps backwards

@Unlucky13 With Japan Studio killed off by myopic Ryan and co, doubt we''ll see another Everybody's Golf. More likely to see Clap Hanz Golf on the Switch than anything PS related.

@PlayStationGamer3919 valid points you bring up. To me the biggest thing is the game seems to be lacking that energy and character that HSG are notorious for. Sure, it looks and feels like a HSG game, but it just feels so bland and dull. Makes me wonder why they decided to deviate from a formula that has always felt right. Surely they could have incorporated a huge open world game without sacrificing all the memorable characters and caddies. Also did not have near enough courses compared to their other games. I think their intentions were to ditch the HSG world altogether and wanted something new and fresh, but all it did is make me miss HSG, leading me to purchasing another PS3, and I immediately purchased Out of Bounds and World Invitational, both tremendous games, and honestly I'd just be fine with playing those if the servers were still live. Another thing that really aggravated me about EG is the way they changed up perfect impact, especially when using backspin on the ball. No linger is your shot guaranteed to go straight if you hit perfect impact, think they said they accounted for sway and it was completely random whether the ball went straight or not. Made hitting a perfect shot pointless as it may veer way off course, many times leading to several extra strokes. What's the point of hitting the perfect shot if you have no idea where it's going? Stupid decision to change this IMHO

@OneWingedAngel Why should players care if they already payed psplus to play the game online? I rarely play online but I like to play single player game like gravity rush 2 on ps4, but sony also shutdown the game online feature.

@wiiware
PS plus only provides you with online access. It does not guarantee that no games will ever have their servers shut down. Numerous games have shut down servers over the years. Did you cry to those developers too? Just keep playing offline. If people want them to keep the servers running then they should keep playing the game. They are not going to spend millions of dollars on keeping servers running for dead games. Expecting them to do so is being naive and entitled.

@OneWingedAngel Like I said before, microsoft try to make their online games better while sony just gave up when there's little trouble, even microsoft games that aren't popular still have their server online. Compared to microsoft, this sony online effort isn't good enough, that's why I'm worried about sony live service games in the future.

@Arkantos2990

What?!? I never knew that, thanks for sharing! I just hope I don't forget about it the next time I need to do so.

@OneWingedAngel Maybe for COD or Halo servers. No way is EG servers costing them "millions ". A few thousand? Sure that's possible. No way close to a million for A Clap Hanz game with only about 1000 players max