White Knight Chronicles Servers Set to Shutdown This June

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Richard Walker

The servers for Level-5 and Sony's PS3-exclusive RPG adventure White Knight Chronicles are set to close this June, according to an announcement posted on the official PlayStation Community Forums.

Naturally, you'll still be able to play offline, but you'll only have a few months to obtain any online trophies. "On 06/18/2013, Sony Computer Entertainment America will terminate the online service for the PlayStation 3 software title: White Knight Chronicles," the notice reads.

"Thank you for your support till now. We hope you will still enjoy playing offline."

Despite the post only referring to 'White Knight Chronicles', subsequent tweets from the PlayStation Twitter account have noted that the server shutdowns scheduled for June 18th, will affect both the first White Knight Chronicles titles and White Knight Chronicles II.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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  • And no one is giving a damn...
  • fuck, i started playing this game a while back. now I have to dive into it... hate when I have to stress into games.
  • good thing I didnt buy it. I was debating but guess wont even touch it now.. it'll be a waste of money.. I hate when they close servers on any game.. cuz you cant enjoy it the way its ment to be played anymore..
  • Another game I really wanted to try out, but never got a chance to even get started with. Mostly because I was always too busy with my backlog of games to find the 250+ hours needed to dedicate to the platinum trophy. I almost did pick it up last month, but I'm glad I didn't now!
  • Seems the more these games have online passes, the faster the servers are closed down!
  • At least they prevent you in advance for the closure ! Not like Ubisoft who just close "Pure football" servers without any warn ! (even if it's written in the game that they have to prevent it 30 days before !)
  • @6 - You mean "notify". "Prevent" means "stop before it happens".
  • Waited untill WKC2 will drop in price, but it never happened. And now i'm definitely not buying it.
  • dammit i never bought this game :( and i wanted too
  • @7 - Yes you are right, my bad ! My english is so poor X_x Thx ;-)
  • Yet WKC2 is only 2 years old for us west of Japan. D: What happens to all the online added quests and your GeoNet town once the servers go down?
  • Shit game anyway
  • NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO This game is on my back burner.. And I really dont want to grind out 200+ hours on WK1... And I planned on plating 2 afterwards. My life is now in shambles. OCD ERROR ERROR
  • Sad to see this go... I wish they make WKC III in the future. Playing WKC II online is some of the best times Ive had in the psn.
  • I'm sad to see that this IP is starting to go under. I had a lot of fun with it. At the same time, however, maybe Level-5 can start working on Dark Cloud 3 now :P
  • #2, You don't HAVE to, no one has a gun to your head saying you HAVE to play it. You're not being forced, you're doing it all on your own.
  • Guess I'll start playing WKC today and start on WKCII afterwards. Great game, just didn't put the time into it like I did the big name games
  • Never thought Sony would shut down a game servers like EA
  • Looks like I'll have to work through this game now and get the online done and out of the way.
  • @18 sony has shut down servers before. I know of at least 7 games they shut servers down for. I almost bought this at walmart yesterday.
  • I have a question. When they shut down the severs, do they also take the DLC off of the store?
  • This was a great game. I don't play it anymore, but sad to see that the servers are going down. Would love to see a WKC3.
  • Cap I have kept putting off WKC2, looks like need to start it soon.
  • Has anyone actually read the trophy guides for these games??? You don't HAVE to be online to play them, it just takes a lot longer but there stil platable ( not a real word)
  • Damn seems soon no? Didn't 2 just come out a year or two ago? Hmm I might have to buy used from devs that do this. I never finished the first I'll get around to it eventually, but yeah can't support shutdowns so soon.
  • @24 yes you do. I have over 700 hours of gameplay on this game so i know. There are trophies like complete 100 quests s rank. Well good luck with when you run out of noob quests and have to do gr26 quests there are quests even with a online party can be damn hard. Now try to solo it. Impossible.. yes this will kind of ruin the game and without some kinda update withgreatly debuffed maps or a really big booster. you can't enjoy those quests. There is even a Gold trophy that you normally do online the final end of the story Gr26 quest this took me alot of time to get that gr. Anyway that is one of the hard quests. Can't solo it in 2 or 3 hits you will be dead and you will hit it like 1% each hit if you are lucky.. yep anyway, i don't see any possitive things in this shutdown. I have played it alot with friends online. I don't see why to shut this one down. almost each friend of me enjoys the online gameplay of WKC. And a fact is in Japan they recieved a update to get the cap of lvl 80 up to 90 and more quests unlocked. We never got those, and now they are already shutting them down.
  • I have the Limited Edition White 500GB PS3 and see a friend playing this game, thinking it would so be worth it, finding out it is getting disconnected from the Player online to off line play. Don't think i would want the game now. what a sad way to end a game for someone.
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