What does surprise him is that Sony never announced an alternate way for players to get access to these items going forward, either by patching them into the single-player content or offering them as DLC. “My friend just bought the game yesterday during the PSN sale and it sucks for him because he likely won’t have enough free time to get most of the online-only rewards,” Cooper said. And he’s not alone, the game’s otherwise quiet subreddit and Discord channel have been more actively lately with players asking about the quickest ways to farm tokens.

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Other players have been less accepting of this outcome. Miguel, who asked that Kotaku not disclose his last name, runs the fan site Gravity Rush Central and has spent the last few months outlining in detail all of the content that will be locked going forward. He even started the #DontForgetGravityRush Twitter campaign where people can voice their opposition.

“The reason I started the campaign is simply because myself and plenty of other fans don’t want to see Sony take down the online servers so soon,” he said in an email. “Even if sales didn’t meet expectations, it’s not that the online functionality isn’t being used.” Throughout December he notes there have been thousands of additional players who have joined the game’s leaderboard, most likely thanks to PSN sales and the impending January 18 deadline.

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“Considering how successful Sony has been recently with the PS4, and the fact that these are asynchronous servers (there’s no direct multiplayer), it begs the question if they really can’t support their first-party titles for more than a year?” Miguel said. He’s afraid the loss of being able to interact through Treasure Hunts and photo reviews will remove an important community element to the game.

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“We’re even losing the online leaderboards, even though these are still online for Gravity Rush Remastered. People who buy the game after the servers go offline will never get to experience the game the way it was originally intended.”

Servers for old games shut down all the time, just not usually this quickly. Sony Entertainment and Atlus announced in November of last year that Demon’s Souls would lose its online support on February 28, but that game came out in 2009. Demon’s Souls players also won’t be losing access to an item that gives them unlimited stamina.

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In addition, it’s unclear how the 58 unique items hidden away in treasure chests will work, given how important online Treasure Hunts have been to helping players find them. Searching for where a treasure chest randomly happens to spawn offline can be tedious, with players anecdotally reporting only having come across a few every several hours. Similarly, Miguel claims to have only found up to 10 outside of Treasure Hunts during his entire time with the game. “There’s no indication that Sony intends to patch the game either to increase the spawn rate,” he said.

For now at least, the game’s online community has been revived as its remaining players frantically try to chase down the rarer rewards. Where some online games go dead after launch and people struggle to find anyone to play with, in Gravity Rush 2 there’s currently no shortage of ghosts to race, treasure clues to analyze, and photos to rate. At least for the next few weeks.