Sony will switch off Killzone multiplayer servers next month

metro.co.uk:

The last two Killzone games made by Horizon Forbidden West studio Guerrilla Games will have their servers shut down in August.

Anyone hoping that the servers for the old Killzone games would last until their 10th anniversary is going to be disappointed to learn that that won’t be the case.

Guerrilla Games, which used to make the Killzone series before it moved onto Horizon Zero Dawn, announced earlier today that it will be shutting down the servers for the last two Killzone games in three weeks’ time, on August 12.

The games in question are Killzone Shadow Fall for the Playstation 4 and Killzone: Mercenary for the PlayStation Vita, both of which released in 2013.

Guerrilla does stress that this will only affect the games’ online multiplayer modes. This includes the Interception expansion for Killzone Shadow Fall, which added a four-player online co-op mode.

For some reason, it’s still available to buy at the time of writing, but we assume Sony will delist it once the servers go down.

The offline single-player content will remain untouched; good news for all two of you who are still playing Killzone Shadow Fall in 2022.

Online servers for another Guerrilla developed PlayStation 4 game, RIGS: Mechanized Combat League, will be shut down too, although we imagine even less people will be bothered about that.

Regardless, this is a common fate for most old games with online components. For every year that passes, companies find less and less justification to keep the metaphorical lights on.

Only this year, Ubisoft announced it would be shutting down 15 of its games. What’s worse is that one of them, Space Junkies, will essentially become unplayable since it’s multiplayer only.

EA did the same thing last year for several of its Need For