Everybody's Golf from Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Clap Hanz will soon be resigned to life as an offline single-player title. The PlayStation 4 title's humorous take on golf will shut down its online servers near the end of the year.
In a pop-up on the game's official PlayStation page, Sony says that the online servers for Everybody’s Golf will shut down on September 30, 2022. All the online features, including its online multiplayer modes, will cease to be playable on that date. Players will still be able to play and enjoy the game in single-player offline modes after the servers shut down.
Everybody's Golf, which was originally released in 2017 for the PlayStation 4, becomes the latest victim of Sony Interactive Entertainments' cull of its older online multiplayer titles. It joins the PlayStation Vita fan favorites that have also recently had their online services shut down in Freedom Wars and Soul Sacrifice, among others.
This news will pose a problem for the platinum trophy hunters out there. Everybody's Golf features two trophies tied to online play. The first trophy is "Online Debut," which tasks players with simply starting an online open course. The other trophy is "Walking Encyclopedia," which is tied to catching every type of fish in the game and completing the fish encyclopedia. Some required fish are only obtainable through online play. Fans of the game have precisely six months to enjoy its online modes, features, and possibly chase down that platinum trophy before it becomes unobtainable.
From the October 1, 2022, players will lose access to the following functionality:
- Acquisition of Platinum Trophy “Push it to the Limit!"
- Acquisition of Gold Trophy “Walking Encyclopedia."
- Acquisition of Bronze Trophy “Online Debut."
- Turf War
- Open Course selection
- International Tournaments
- Daily Rankings
- Copy Rankings
- Partial viewing of the Notice Box
- Partial browsing of This Month’s Items
- Partial browsing of Last Month’s Items
- Partial browsing of the Library
- Warp Medals
- Some items related to fishing
- Reporting of players
- Viewing of the latest Profile Card and number of times copied
The first Everybody's Golf title on PlayStation 4 marked the end of the alternate Hot Shots branding in the North American market, with the title Everybody's Golf being used worldwide. There were seven main games in the franchise that were published between 1997 and 2017 for every console in the PlayStation family, with a further four spin-off titles for the PSP and PlayStation Vita handheld consoles. The series has sold over 15 million copies worldwide and has enjoyed success in all the major markets, especially in its native market of Japan.
Everybody's Golf is available now on PlayStation 4.
Source: Gematsu