PlayStation fans have been eagerly awaiting the next week or so, with their Days of Play sale season starting tomorrow and a huge, theatrically released State of Play coming on June 2. Sadly though, it can’t all be good news, as Sony just killed yet another of their live service games. Earlier today, Destruction AllStars was delisted from the PlayStation Store, making it completely unavailable for any future players to ever purchase and marking the beginning of the end for the game.
Destruction AllStars was a vehicle-based combat game all about fighting other players by smashing into their cars and using your unique powers to shred their rides whilst burning some rubber. It was developed by Lucid Games as part of Sony’s big live service push with the PS5, originally intended to launch as a $70 PS5 launch title before Sony delayed it to February the next year and made it free for PlayStation Plus subscribers, before releasing it for just $20 digitally and physically that April.
Following today’s delisting, Destruction AllStars multiplayer servers have also been formally taken offline, but they weren’t available anyway since 2024 due to “technical error”, that’s suspected to also be related to the game’s heavy underperformance.
Whilst starting development with the intention of being a premium-priced title, the backtrack to making the game temporarily free damaged the reputation that Destruction AllStars had with players from launch. Since then, it failed to garner any audience or public interest, which was made abundantly clear by most not knowing the game’s multiplayer servers have already been down for two years.
The single-player modes in Destruction AllStars and the premium Destruction Points currency will both still be available to owners until November 25, after which point they will also go offline and be unusable. Only the Arcade Mode will remain running beyond this date, with Sony noting that “functionality and player experience may be impacted due to the server shutdown”.
Destruction AllStars now joins Concord, the unreleased God of War from Bluepoint Studios, Insomniac Games’ scrapped multiplayer Spider-Man: The Great Web and more in the graveyard of Sony live services. Even Destiny 2 is soon to be retired to some degree, as Sony wind down on their gold rush towards the troublesome gaming model.
