inFAMOUS 2 Is Shutting Down Its Online Features After 15 Years — and Platinum Hunters Are Rushing In

After 15 years, inFAMOUS 2 on PS3 is losing its online features, and with them goes any chance of earning the game's Platinum trophy. The shutdown is prompting a last-minute surge of players trying to complete the trophy list before the window closes for good.

The online component is the final barrier between many players and the Platinum — once the servers go dark, at least one trophy tied to online functionality will become permanently unobtainable. That's enough to send a wave of PS3 owners back to Sucker Punch's 2011 open-world superhero game to mop up what they can before the deadline.

inFAMOUS 2 launched in June 2011 as the follow-up to the original inFAMOUS, expanding Cole MacGrath's story to a new city and introducing a morality-driven narrative with two distinct endings. Sucker Punch went on to develop inFAMOUS Second Son for PS4 before eventually shifting focus to Ghost of Tsushima. The PS3 era inFAMOUS games never received remasters, so the PS3 versions remain the only way to play them — making server shutdowns a permanent loss for the series' legacy content.

The spike in player activity around the shutdown mirrors a pattern seen across aging PS3 titles as Sony continues to wind down legacy infrastructure. For anyone still chasing that Platinum, the clock is ticking.