Without notice, EA is removing five Need for Speed games from digital stores. And your servers will be next (Updated)

Update : Although EA’s notice put May 31 as a deadline, several of them can still be purchased on Steam. Specifically, Need for Speed Undercover by and Need for Speed Shift by.

May 4 update : on Steam they have already disappeared.

The same thing happens every year, unfortunately. A company announces a series of video games that are being withdrawn from digital stores. And now it’s up to EA with five Need for Speed games . The bad thing is that it was out of the blue.

Usually it is notified in advance, but in this case the notice from Reddit by its Community Manager has not led to buy them before their withdrawal, since the same notice was accompanied by the news of their immediate withdrawal .

Yes, since the last minute of May 31, 2021, Electronic Arts eliminated all possibility of buying these deliveries from the digital stores of PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. And no, there is no retrocompatible Need for Speed, sadly.

• Need for Speed Carbon
• Need for Speed Undercover
• Need for Speed Shift
• Need for Speed Shift 2: Unleashed
• Need for Speed: The Run

At this time, only the Need for Speed Undercover tab is active on Xbox Live, where it can still be purchased for 19.99 euros. But it is a matter of a short time until it disappears as well, like the others. Of course, the in-game purchases of all of them have also been withdrawn. And this has its reason: the next thing will be the closing of the servers on August 31 , losing its online modes.

The decision behind the company, despite not being a dish of good taste or something easy to drink, is that this will allow them to focus on the future of Need for Speed . Apparently the current number of people who still played online games from previous generations was not something feasible in terms of maintaining their servers, hence the decision … even if that entails the withdrawal of the games from digital stores, Wow. At least EA reassures by making it clear that Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Need for Speed Rivals, Need for Speed (2015), Need for Speed Payback, Need for Speed Heat or the recent Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered are not affected. for this decision . It would only be missing, right?