Sony to Shutdown Gravity Rush 2 After a Year

Sony has announced they will shut down the online capabilities of PS4 exclusive Gravity Rush 2. This will lock out certain aspects of the game. Gravity rush 2 came out Jan 2017

Fans will be locked out of most of the online features come 18th January 2018, it was announced in a blog post on Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Asia's website.

Features also set to be dropped are:

• Sending and receiving challenges
• Ranked Leaderboards
• Sending and receiving Treasure Hints
• Sending, receiving and reviewing Photo Ghosts
• Acquiring Dusty Tokens and their rewards.

In the meantime, Sony is increasing the drop rate of Dusty Tokens - an in-game currency received for sharing photos and completing challenges - as a consolation for players and their continued support of the game. Dusty Tokens are the only means by which players can unlock special costumes and talismans within Gravity Rush 2, which won't be available once the online functionality is shut down.

Sad

*insert joke about how only two people were playing it anyway*

Thank you GODNY

Well that's just messed up.

This game had online capabilities?

That really sucks, cause i haven't played it yet.

don't know, as a loyal Vita gamer I refused to play it

Monsters!

OMG ! I read that title as Sony shutting down the Gravity rush team :O

Never released it had any online components, doesn't seem like they'll actually effect the game though.

Shame, because I loved the treasure hunts. I might go back and collect the dusty tokens to get the remaining unlocks after I finish up Yakuza Kiwami.

@drlostrib:

You can literally play the entire game while ignoring online. If you can even call it that. Its not like Halo or COD mp.

It had online capabilities?

Welcome to the "online only" future

I know this game isnt online only just pointing out every online only game will receive the same treatment sooner or later whenever their publishers decide on it

A sign of a piss poor company offering a piss poor product.

Can't wait to see the excuses from the usual suspects of the bovine variety...

But anyway, sad for those that enjoyed the game.

To be fair they released the 2nd gravity rush on PS4 to expand the audience in to double figures.

for the players

and for their wallets

Doing or did same for The Tomorrow Children. Shame. Maybe Sony should invest in more cloud power, for something besides streaming games.

And another one bites the dust. Why did they even increased the PS+ price at certain regions anyway.

What a terrible example ... This effects physical copies exactly the same, but I suppose in this day any age any example will do to prove your point no matter how daft/wrong it is. But if you need to derp you might as well herp while you're at it!

I didn't realize this had online capabilities, but that's unfortunate. I still have to play the first one Remastered. Assuming I like it (looks fun), I had assumed I would go on to play GR2 at some point. I don't pay for PS+, though, and it doesn't look like the SP game is gimped in any way

uh, I didnt said the contrary... I was talking about the fact most games these days demand some kind of online connection of some sort, being it physical or digital. Where dafuq did I even mentioned the type of media of the games? Reading comprehension much?

*holds hands up* My bad I misread the online only part. Thought it was another physical is great digital sucks post.

By gamers, for gamers, the Sony way.

Phony, the one and only strikes again. Poo cows just can't buy a break these dayzz. :P

This is common for Sony. No one should be surprised.

SONY does this all the time, no thanks

tfw you find out a game has online because you find out its closing

Yup. Now it all of a sudden doesn't feel worth the purchase smh

More resources to put towards the industry leading, generation defining, bona fide classic exclusives coming our way. Only on PS4.

This is what sets Sony apart from Microsoft, Microsoft don't know when a horse is dead (Halo, Forza, Gears) so they continue putting out sub par experiences, Sony deliver and then move on.

I chuckled.

Just, why?

Maybe a new one is coming out. I mean the excuse before was they shut down MLB The Show servers once a new one comes out not even a year in. It's disgusting Sony continues this un-consumer friendly practice. Mean while Xbox adds more to the free BC list and these last gen games with online will still work.

and nobody cares

The game was a massive flop.It has sold around 200k copies.

the server costs are just not worth it

It's funny how the cows are saying they didn't know it had online functions, of course they didn't know because they don't play games, well they do on here, but not on their consoles :P

Sony abandoning their games. Sad.

Oh it's just weeab shit.

dude, go f*ck yourself

Gravity Daze (Rush) 2 has an online mode? WTF! I didn't know that. I haven't even finished Gravity Daze 2 for that matter. Too bad but at least we got Gravity Daze 2 into PS4 at the very least and not needing to play it on LOLVita or even buy the damn thing for that matter.

Never played it and don't plan to so I don't care.

@moistcarrot: this forum is no place to use anti-Semitic language.

Yes, and they were completely unnecessary. Pointless wasting money supporting online features for a game like this.

And this is why people complain about persistent online connectivity.

Yeah, that's why I try to make sure I get a hell of a lot of play time for the online components of my games. I'm making sure I play the hell outta the community levels in LittleBigPlanet 3, get enough time online from Killing Floor 2, get enough time out of Rocket League's online, make sure I finish all of the snapmaps I wanted to get done from DOOM, and get a little more time from Overwatch and Diablo 3.

Sure, those games' online could go on for a long time, but hearing about the closing down of all LBP servers for Japan 2 years ago gets me all paranoid. Makes me feel that sometimes, in the case of online-only games, we are really just paying for a long rental.