Dragon Age: Inquisition PS3 servers shut down after 12 years, ending multiplayer

The clock is already ticking on Dragon Age: Inquisition on PlayStation 3. Electronic Arts has put April 28, 2026 on its online services shutdown list for the game’s PS3 servers, which will end the multiplayer side of BioWare’s fantasy RPG while leaving the single-player campaign intact.

That matters because Inquisition’s online mode was never an afterthought. BioWare and EA announced it on August 27, 2014 as a four-player cooperative dungeon-crawling experience separate from the open-world story, and said players would be able to unlock up to 12 characters across warrior, rogue, and mage classes. The base game then launched in North America on November 18, 2014, which means the PS3 multiplayer is lasting 11 years and 5 months before the plug is pulled.

For anyone still booting up the last-gen version, the practical deadline is simple: if you want to play Inquisition’s PS3 co-op missions, do it before April 28. After that date, the multiplayer feature set is gone. The single-player campaign remains playable, so the shutdown does not erase the story mode that made the game a major release in the first place.

The cutover also raises an open question around Dragon Age Keep, the franchise’s community portal for carrying forward choices and world states. EA has not publicly clarified whether the PS3 shutdown will affect Keep, even though the site is still live and still describes itself as a place to “discover, shape & share” your Dragon Age experience. That uncertainty gives the shutdown a preservation edge as well as a nostalgia one, because Keep has long acted as the bridge between series entries.

There is also a bigger industry story underneath the headline. EA’s own shutdown list puts Dragon Age: Inquisition on one end of the timeline and Anthem on the other, with Anthem’s online services scheduled to end on August 4, 2026 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and EA App. The contrast is sharp: one BioWare game from the older single-player era kept its multiplayer alive for more than a decade, while the studio’s later live-service experiment is being wound down on a separate, still-visible timetable. In an era when online games can vanish in months, Inquisition’s PS3 co-op has quietly become the kind of long run that feels almost old-fashioned.