PlayStation Plus Confirms Multiple Games Going Offline

Several PlayStation Plus titles are already set to go offline, permanently, in 2026 and 2027, and fans are (justifiably) not too happy about it.

The Stop Killing Games initiative isn’t going to be happy about this one, because one publisher just announced that the online functionality for a bunch of their games will be removed over the next couple of years.

Worse still, several of the titles on the list have been given away as monthly PlayStation Plus titles, which means that subscribers are going to be cut off from playing games online that they paid good money to access.

If you’re in any way familiar with the publisher in question, this news will probably not come as a surprise to you. I am, of course, referring to 2K Games, a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive, which is responsible for publishing several of the most famous sports games of all time.

As detailed in a post over on the r/PlayStationPlus subreddit, the servers for four separate PS Plus games (three of which were given away as PlayStation Plus Essential monthly titles) will be shut off over the next couple of years.

These include (but are not limited to) PGA Tour 2K23 (PS Plus Essential title, August 2023), WWE 2K24 (PS Plus Essential title, October 2024) and NBA 2K25 (PS Plus Essential title, June 2025).

Perhaps the most egregious of these shutdowns, however, is WWE 2K25, which will shut down in March 2027. The game was only just ported to the Nintendo Switch 2 on July 23. People just bought it for full price less than two months ago, and 2K have already announced that they’re sunsetting it. That’s downright scummy.

Thankfully, the folks in the comments seem to agree that 2K are absolute scumbags for pulling nonsense like this.

“Easy option for all of us. Stop buying any 2k yearly games. F**k them and their sh**ty practices”, commented user rialbsivad.

“Keep buying them year after year. Definitely nothing else to play. These games ruin the industry”, replied user deathbunnyy.

“Paying $70 to basically rent a game for a few years, trash”, commented user Funny_Debate_1805.

To be frank, 2K suck for this– but Sony needs to put their foot down and stop offering them money to add their games to PlayStation Plus Essential.

We all know that when the PlayStation 5 servers go offline, we’ll lose access to our digital PS Plus Essential libraries. But a PS Plus Essential game losing online functionality before that point? That’s not acceptable.

PS Plus Essential games are not some kind of little bonus you get each month, they’re part of a service you pay for. And by removing functionality from the games included in that service, subscribers are suddenly getting less than what they paid for. You paid for something, and now you no longer have it. 2K should be the ones held at fault for this, but Sony should know better.