After numerous extensions, ATLUS confirmed it will finally turn off the North American servers for Demon's Souls on May 31, 2012.

The servers will officially turn off  at 11:59 PM PST. ATLUS says the single-player portion of the game will remain unaffected. The company will have two separate World Tendency events next month, May 1-15 and May 16-31, based on fan voting.

ATLUS encourages all players to sign on May 31 one last time before saying goodbye

Nooooooooo that fucking sucks, I am going to have to go do another run (at least 1 more) before they shut it down. Damn that makes me sad, I wish they could have kept the servers up, I feel like it would not take up too much bandwidth, how many people still play?

Has it been three years since it was released? Wow, feels like it was ages ago since I jumped in...then again I've got the Asian copy so I don't know how long those will last (unless you only connect to the players in your region based on your location.)

That's terrible. I can't play the game anymore, because my PS3 broke (BluRay drive issue)... I guess I'll have to wait for the "4k remake" to finally finish the game. :/

There's going to be another set of world tendency events? Well, at least I can grab the last two gold trophies I need for my platinum without trying to force myself into pure black world tendency. Still have no idea how that works, I only got the game in November and powered through it. Farewell Demons souls servers! I enjoyed my time with you.

I guess I should probably buy and play this game before that happens.

Ive never played demons' or Dark Sould, always wanted to though. How important was the online component as a whole?

Ive never played demons' or Dark Sould, always wanted to though. How important was the online component as a whole?

I still haven't beaten this game.

@BongChilla: It's a big factor when it comes to the PvP/Co-Op as well as changing the difficulty of the worlds (some worlds will have more/tougher enemies depending on "World Tendency" which is governed by a bunch of stuff) but it's still very playable offline. In fact, you can still get all the trophies offline. It'll just take a bit longer.

I just got this game last week so this is fucking terrible news. Goddammit, this sucks.

@Marz Does Dark Souls have the same features? I'm thinking of picking it up now haha.

I've been considering buying it and finally playing it ever since I got Dark Souls. Guess I procrastinated too long on that one.

I'm glad I got through it last year. But that still sucks, at least those who have beaten it don't need the hints anymore. But the lack PvP would be a bummer.

Phew!I thought the title said Dark Souls * puts computer down* 
Still sucks, never got really deep into Demon's Souls.

Dude that's weird.

Damn shame. Had to happen eventually though. Props to Atlus for putting their ass on the line localizing the game and introducing it to a western audience, as well as keeping the servers running for as long as they have. Demons Souls and Dark Souls are easily my favorite games of this generation.

I imagine that some dedicated fans will eventually come up with a server emulator of some sort to bring the online component back to life. I imagine that setting it up won't be as (relatively) easy as, say, Phantasy Star Online, but I suspect that the fan community is too dedicated to the series at this point to let such a pivotal feature of the original game go away forever. Props to Atlus for keeping the servers up for as long as they have, though. Their business model rarely seems to yield much in the way of profits at all, so it speaks to how successful Demon's Souls was (and still is, really) financially and culturally for those servers to stay up as long as they have.

Ouch... I've only played Dark Souls, but it seems like losing the servers will impact the game in a big, big way.

Yeah this sucks, I still pity people who think Dark Souls had good online and never bothered playing Demon's Souls.

Sooooo... I say they try a Kickstarter to fund the servers to stay alive another year. Make it happen Atlus. ;)

To be honest while Demon's was fun I had more fun with Dark. I think many people thought the same and kind of jumped on Dark. Demon's was such a great game though. Still much fun to be had in single player!

Demon's Souls: Not Like This with Vinny playing and hosting gooooooooo!

I still have another character that I didn't beat the game with, so I guess I'll go back and do that.

Yeah, but while that means you can no longer do PVP, there weren't any online-only trophies, so its not like you couldn't play the game anymore.

I know what i'm playing in May.

Sucks. From talking to people on the wiki site the PvP is much better then Dark Souls. I wouldn't know because as soon as I saw that hack job they did with the Dark SOuls PvP I returned my copy.

The True Demon's Souls Ends Here.

The Old Monk boss fight will totally be different now. Online PvP was pretty much the point of that fight.

I have yet to beat the Flame Lurker...

I am so screwed.