(Although some of those Need for Speed games are still available for sale through Steam at a discount.)ĮA said it is “now shifting gears to focus on the future of Need for Speed.” The next game in the franchise is expected sometime in 2022. The removal affects Sony’s PlayStation Store, Microsoft’s Xbox Games Store, Steam, and EA’s Origin service. 1, “you can still play the games and use the respective offline features of these titles,” the publisher added.
In a statement posted to Reddit on Monday, a representative for EA said that “the number of players has come to a point where it’s no longer feasible to continue the work behind the scenes required to keep up and running.”Ĭarbon, Undercover, Shift, Shift 2: Unleashed, and The Run will all go offline on Aug. The five delisted titles are Need for Speed: Carbon (2006), Need for Speed: Undercover (2008), Need for Speed: Shift (2009), Need for Speed Shift 2: Unleashed (2011), and Need for Speed: The Run (2011). EA offered little warning about the Need for Speed games’ delisting, angering fans of the venerable racing series.
Publisher Electronic Arts delisted five older Need for Speed games on Monday, citing the games’ impending retirement of online services.
