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| EA Racing to be closed |
Thursday, 14.08.2003 |
 EA Racing, the platform for online races with the games Need for Speed: High Stakes and Need for Speed: Porsche Unleasged will be closed.
Read the statement of EA Cadillac, an EA Representative:
Hey Gang,
You all know about the disk failure and subsequent recovery on the game servers. You also know that since this has happened, the EAOR web site has not been up. For the past 2 weeks, I have been working with old EA Seattle folks who still remain in the company to see what we could do. One is in Canada, another is in California when he is not in Texas or Washington. To cut to the chase, when then disk on the login died, it was also a sign that the game database had died. There was no back-up. Restoring this would mean over a week's worth of programing. Considering the lack of programmers able to do this along with other factors, the decision was made to sunset the service.
What does this mean?
Well, I've been able to get folks over here to agree that the games can remain up until October 1st. At that time (or when the servers die again) that will mark the end of client-server play with High Stakes and Porsche Unleashed. As for the web site, we'll be migrating the EAOR domain to point to the NFS franchise page. Of course, IP racing will never go away as long there are people willing to hook up but I know connecting to EA Racing lobbies in the past has meant a lot to some of you.
Lastly, we've been through a lot together with EA Racing. When the studio started working on MCO, I was obliged to help get support straightened out and a final patch (FWIW) for HS. I want to thank "Spin" for being a great point of contact for the High Stakers gang. You've all been really loyal to this game and I salute you all. As for me, I will still be around with EA working on whatever projects they have for me. I hope I can take what I've learned from your community, add it to the others I have been involved with in order to provide valuable input to a studio or production staff somewhere that will use it.
 EA Racing<br>
Thread @ Need for Better Speed boards (Source)
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