The end of an era...

[Konan]

It's just unbelievable and hard to comprehend...

[Sum Dixon-Ear]

It is.. so many wonderful memories.. it will take a long time to fully sink in that this is the end.

[Konan]

"Be careful what you wish for" springs to mind... I remember how some wished Pc3 would fail to the extent that SMS had to change direction again.
Guess what?
They changed direction allright...

[c172fccc]

Really sad

[Shaadum59]

A big thank you to EA. Thank you Forza and NFS. Games that bore me to death today, but that bring in a lot of money with their open world - gamepass obliges - and the thousands (millions) of casu players that will generate funds.
That's what video game racing is all about today. An open world however bland, teenage driving and a weekly follow up to get you to turn on your console every day.

"We are focusing $$$ on our strengths in our $$$ racing portfolio, particularly licensed IP and $$$ open-world $experiences$, and expanding our franchises to be more $$$$ socially-led with long-term $$$ live services that will $$ engage $$ global $$$ communities.$$$$ "" EA said.

I am very saddened by this news. What will be left, seriously...

[Sum Dixon-Ear]

Yeah.. thanks a bunch EA...

[RyokoMaruyama]

It's very strange to me that PCARS1 and 2 got delisted so close to each other, when other games that get delisted due to licensing go down with a year or two of space. What's more strange was that apparently PCARS1 was up on the Steam store until yesterday.

All of this is really fishy, and Ian Bell probably had no idea that this would happen to the extent that it did. Perhaps it was a threat to comply to the live service model that Skate and The Sims did?

Also, it would be nice if anyone uploaded the WMD builds for 1 and 2 just for archive's sake, since the IP is pretty much dead in the water now. RIP.

[cluck]

Uploading the WMD builds would land that person in deep water, legally. I used to keep hold of the early builds, that we had to manually download from SMS, for pCARS1 but have long-since deleted them as I figured the authentication servers would have long-since been shut down. Same goes for the Steam builds, they needed to go through an auth server to start. Yes, I'm sure somebody could patch around that, but that would be as much an infringement as uploading the files in the first place.

[MrTulip]

Dammit!

I hope that the guys are poached by Ian or EA/Codies WRC team, at least.

[Konan]