The unfortunate day for PS4 golfing game Everybody's Golf has finally arrived: its servers were taken offline overnight, meaning none of its multiplayer functionality is accessible anymore. You can still play offline, but the Platinum Trophy will now be deemed unobtainable. It follows in the footsteps of PS4 games like Killzone Shadow Fall and PS Vita titles Freedom Wars and Soul Sacrifice as their online components are stripped from the experience.
Committed fans made sure to get a few more rounds of golf in before the servers were shut down, with some recounting how they were "Thanos-snapped" out of the game as players dropped from lobbies one by one. Others made sure they earned the Platinum Trophy before it was too late.
Of course, Everybody's Golf developer Clap Hanz is still very much around and making games, but you won't find its latest golf title on PS5 or PS4. Easy Come Easy Golf is only available for smartphones and Nintendo Switch, and it's said to be a really good offshoot too.
Did you get a few more rounds of golf in before Everybody's Golf headed offline? Share your experiences in the comments below.
[source News: Everybody's Golf Falls Victim to Sony Online Server Cuts]
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It’s weird that they pulled support while also simultaneously expanding access to the game by including it in PS+ Extra recently.
If the game was ready to die, why promote it through the service?
It's a sad day. This was one of my favourite games to just sit back and relax and play.
Sony is the worst publisher when it comes to the longevity of keeping there servers up. They shut servers down faster than anyone else. Really worrisome when you think about this company going all in on live service games going forward. I suspect if any of the 10 titles they release isn't an instant microtransactions money maker they will shut it down within three years.
This was such a fun, chill golf game. I still like tossing into the PS5 and playing a few rounds nowadays.
@Th3solution think that the one they added to PS+ Extra was an old PS, PS2 or PS3 title mate (I could be wrong though), this one is the PS4 one.
Great game either way… I made sure to get the plat done earlier this year when the news initially broke that the servers would be going dark. One of the games I’ve enjoyed most this year for sure. Would buy a sequel in a heart-beat.
Maybe Sony should start charging for online so they can keep the servers up?
...wait.
I love this game, never played it online though. I just wish the dlc would go on sale sometime. It's always full price. Maybe now they'll do a dlc bundle at a decent price.
@Ken_Kaniff While it does suck that the online servers shut down, this game was out for a good five years. Killzone Shadow Fall was around for almost 9 years, too. It's not like these games just came out within the past year or two, like Babylon's Fall, which only lasted like a year. Hell, that game didn't even make it a year before Square Enix announced it was shutting down for good.
It's a shame. One of the few better recent MP titles Sony has given us.
Which reminds me...it's just now that I remembered that Hardware rivals also got its servers shut down last year, and I only knew about that because of one guy on Gfaqs lol
My buddy and I got in a few more final farewell rounds last week. Really sad to see this one go away. RIP Everybody's Golf.
Sad to see this happen. One of my favourite games . Really enjoyed the online play.
Legendary game.
Everybody's Golf may be dead but Yuka will live on in my memory forever.
As she often told me ... Just Relax.
One of my favourite PS4 games. A huge shame they closed the servers.
I really didnt like the game but why put online trophies in a game of you close them so fast.
@Flaming_Kaiser online trophies should be banned period!
Sad day. One of my favourite 'chillax' games on the PS4 and still play EG2 on my Vita.
Might go and invest in Easy Come Easy Golf on the Switch now that Sony's bone-headed ideas have come home to roost.
Make Everybody's Golf 2 you cowards!
@MasterVGuides Yea, but my point was in the grand scheme of these big AAA publishers they definitely pull the plug quicker on there online than anyone else.
@Deadlyblack fnur fnur wouldnt recommend that.
@colonelkilgore I think the PS4 version is actually on Extra. In fact, I had already added it to my library and just haven’t downloaded it yet, but I’m assuming it’s the PS4 one.
I might still play it, sans online mode. I probably wouldn’t have even delved into the pool of online multiplayer anyways. 😄
Between the online shutdown and to go from only releasing on Playstation for 20 years to creating a spiritual successor for Switch gives the impression that Sony aren't interesting in having a PS5 Everybody's Golf.
@Th3solution yeah I think you’re right actually… and like you say, why remove the server functionality for the game when it’s now available to a whole new player base?
@Grumblevolcano Sony effectively shut it down when they closed Japan Studio.
Damn. It would’ve been good to know the servers were going offline, like, a month ago. Learning they went offline last night doesn’t do me any good right now. (If this news was stated a while back, I totally missed it.)
I now have a new notification icon in the lift corner of the screen reminding me every time I start the game up that the joy is gone.
@Th3solution There are actually four Everybody's Golf games on Plus. Everybody's Golf for the PS1 as a PS4/5 classic. Everybody's Golf for the PS4, which is the game this article is about (and isn't the VR version, which released only 3 years ago). Lastly, Everybody's Golf and Everybody's Golf World Tour for the PS3, the former of which features Move support and crossplay with the Vita version.
Everybody's Tennis is on Plus as well.
PSP version was the best imo
Loved that game
to be fair was announced 6mnth ago, and before it went on plus. obv was barely used at that point.
It's wild to think the Everybody's Golf / Hot Shots Golf series, a PlayStation exclusive and mainstay for more than 20 years, is now focused on Nintendo and mobile platforms. Even the Switch version has online multiplayer...
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