Despite the best efforts from Gravity Rush fans around the world who supported the #DontForgetGravityRush campaign, where the goal was to either prevent the closure or get Sony to patch the game to unlock the online-exclusive items, Gravity Rush 2‘s servers still went offline as scheduled on July 18, 5AM UTC. There’s been no response from anyone at Sony to the many tweets from the fans, or even to inquiries from gaming media websites. At this moment, it appears unlikely that the game will receive an update to help new players acquire otherwise unobtainable items.
Attempts to upload photos or accessing online rankings (for Dusty Tokens or Challenge Missions) now result in an error message. It also seems that we’ll now get the network error message every time we complete a Challenge Mission, if only to highlight how the game wasn’t designed to lose its online services so soon.
UPDATE: If you take a photo from a treasure chest found offline, the game will still ask you to take a photo to upload for other players, only to fail afterwards.
Once more, I’d like to thank to everyone who contributed to our #DontForgetGravityRush campaign, as well as the game’s developers who implemented the online features in the game. It’s a shame Sony didn’t do anything to at least reduce the impact the closure would have on the game.
Taking down the servers obviously wasn’t the decision from the development team. The game’s director tweeted this to the fans after the servers were closed (keep in mind he posted this from a machine translation):
Today, the online service of Gravity Rush 2 is over.
Photo review, treasure hunt etc. in the concept of "loosely connected" …#GravityDaze #GravityRush— 外山圭一郎 (@K_Toyama) July 19, 2018
Thanks to everyone who proactively got excited, I really enjoyed it as a production team and as a player.Just to be mindful, I can not stand appreciation. I'm really thankful to you!
Because this is a machine translation, please pardon a strange sentence#GravityDaze #GravityRush— 外山圭一郎 (@K_Toyama) July 19, 2018
The game’s concept artist Takeshi Oga also tweeted in English to the fans, telling them he’s saddened by the loss of the online servers, but impressed by how many fans tweeted #DontForgetGravityRush.
Thank you! I try to rewrite in English..
Finally, the online server shut down, I feel sad but… even so, I was deeply impressed by many voices of #DontForgetGravityRush ! thanks everyone! #GRAVITYDAZE2 #GRAVITYRUSH2— Takeshi Oga (@Takeshi0ga) July 19, 2018
Kyosuke Wakasa (producer of Gravity Rush The Animation ~Overture~) also tweeted a thank you to the fans:
Many thanks! to all players!! 🙂 #GRAVITYDAZE2 #GRAVITYRUSH2 #PS4share pic.twitter.com/qvdAgN6nwy
— 和家佐恭介（わかさまん） (@wakasma) July 19, 2018