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.
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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:
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