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EA is dropping Project CARS, GamesIndustry.biz can reveal. The Slightly Mad Studios-developed series was launched in 20…

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EA is dropping Project CARS, GamesIndustry.biz can reveal.

The Slightly Mad Studios-developed series was launched in 2015, with EA confirming today that it has made the decision to "stop further development and investment" in the franchise.

The announcement was made internally and it's unclear at this stage to which extent staff could be affected. EA said that employees working on Project CARS will be moved into "suitable" roles "wherever [they] can."

 

[Kilau]

Oooooh, going to make some folks more than slightly mad.

 

[kanjobazooie]

 

[amc]

Still waiting for the Mad Box.

 

[winjer]

So EA killed another franchise.

 

[chromhound]

They will work on more NFS games

 

[//DEVIL//]

After the shit 3 was, makes sense. It seems the passionate skilled people made 1 and 2 left the game after the second one. Third was shit and when EA saw alpha footage of 4 ( probably ) they were like kill it with fire along with the team

 

[Thief1987]

So EA killed another franchise.

It was already dead, i think the last game killed interest in the series even for the remained loyal fans.

 

[justiceiro]

At this point, i don't think people selling studio to ea are doing so to leverage their games, but to simple be done with it.

 

[Topher]

EA being EA

 

[nightmare-slain]

fuck off. project cars was great. they ruined it with 3.

i hate need for speed and burnout. suppose the only good car games now are Forza.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

So EA killed another franchise.

It was already dead. They didn't kill anything.

 

[Mowcno]

Project Cars 3 was awful... Though they said they were returning back to the style of the first two with the next so might have been good. But oh well.

 

[Beer Baelly]

Good. They fucked up PC3 themselves.

 

[winjer]

It was already dead, i think the last game killed interest in the series even for the remained loyal fans.

Several franchises have a bad game, but recovered in the next installment.
But EA just gives up on their games very easily.

 

[LostDonkey]

The first game is the only good one.

The second had neat ideas but somehow took a large step backwards with regards to SIM.

 

[35cent]

That's a shame. I loved PC2 and I think they were building the next version of the Madness engine with PC4 which was supposed to be a sim game again. Oh well, there's always AMS2 I guess aka the game PC3 should have been.

 

[Thief1987]

Other source has said that they also dropped DIRT series.

 

[CuteFaceJay]

Guessing I should expect the same treatment with the Dirt franchise.

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

papaEA.jpg

 

[Griffon]

EA really is a graveyard.

They would've been dead themselves ten times over if it wasn't for their annual sports games revenue.

 

[kruis]

 

[GladiusFrog]

PC2 Was amazing, I was fortunate enough to play through it in VR.

What an experience. RIP

Fuck EA.

 

[MagnetoWasRight]

Other source has said that they also dropped DIRT series.

Dirt Rally 3 has become the next WRC game and Dirt 5 didn't do that well, so that wouldn't be surprising.

 

[Kacho]

Guessing I should expect the same treatment with the Dirt franchise.

Not Dirt Rally if that’s what you meant. The regular arcadey Dirt might get papa EA’d though.

 

[Kusarigama]

Did he actually do that on stage? Can't stop laughing, can't stop thinking how funny this is

 

[Thief1987]

Dirt Rally 3 has become the next WRC game and Dirt 5 didn't do that well, so that wouldn't be surprising.

Yes, Dirt Rally most likely is rebranded to WRC. But for me DIRT is the last remained more arcady track racing. I can't stand Openworld racing games.

 

[drezz]

rip westood

 

[hemo memo]

It was already dead. They didn't kill anything.

It was never alive.

 

[The_Mike]

So EA killed another franchise.

 

[diffusionx]

PC3 killed the franchise and that had nothing to do with EA.

 

[RaZoR No1]

Another Racing franchise dead...
Racing games are getting more niche..
In the past racing games were used to demonstrate the power of the consoles etc. but currently other games / genres took over.
Additonally gamers beeing not satisfied with the games, handling, features, car lists, licensing etc. does not make it easy for smaller devs to release a proper racing game.

Just look at the PS2 gen how many racing we got compared to now.

+ EA has already some experience with Slightly Mad Studios (NFS Shift series). Probably did help EA to decide faster.

 

[nemiroff]

Why did they stray from the Project Cars formula in the first place. I mean, even an idiot would realize that repelling their audience wouldn't be a winning strategy.. Better left at PC2.

 

[Senua]

fuck off. project cars was great. they ruined it with 3.

i hate need for speed and burnout. suppose the only good car games now are Forza.

Assetto corsa, iRacing, Auto mobolista and on and on and on and on....

 

[Senua]

fuck off. project cars was great. they ruined it with 3.

i hate need for speed and burnout. suppose the only good car games now are Forza.

Assetto corsa, iRacing, Automobilista and on and on and on and on....


i have absolutely no idea how instead of editing my original post i posted a whole new one instead, but god damn if it aint retarded

 

[Kvally]

Assetto corsa, iRacing, Automobilista and on and on and on and on....

Yes, those are all great. And we have a new Test Drive coming.

• Forza Horizon
• Forza Motorsport
• Gran Turismo
• Assetto Corsa
• iRacing
• Automibilista
• Test Drive Unlimited
• Need for Speed

Though I would have taken a PC4 that went back to PC2 simulation.

 

[Filben]

No wonder. If you try to make a realistic motorsport game but, as only one example, remove the ability to do pit stops and make tyre changes AUTOFUCKINGMATICALLY on the road, while driving, when the weather changes because they think it DISTRACTS from the racing experience otherwise... I don't know what to tell these devs anymore... utterly clueless.

 

[.Pennywise]

Any game with "Project" in its title it's doomed by its own name.

 

[amigastar]

Project CARS 1 was meh
Project CARS 2 was good
Project CARS 3 was meh

 

[RaZoR No1]

Why did they stray from the Project Cars formula in the first place. I mean, even an idiot would realize that repelling their audience wouldn't be a winning strategy.. Better left at PC2.

They could not keep up with the best/better sims so they tried to get casual gamers, which failed hard.

 

[Bernkastel]

Isn't it published by Bandai Namco?

 

[Outlier]

LOL. That's what happens when you SELL OUT!

I tried playing PC1 on PS4. AWFUL controls.
Then I tried playing PC2 on PC, with control. AWFUL controls.
Then they fixed the controls for PC3, but broke the core purpose of the game... Didn't play it.

3 strikes and they've got what they had coming.

 

[Kvally]

LOL. That's what happens when you SELL OUT!
I tried playing PC1 on PS3. AWFUL controls.
Then I tried playing PC2 on PC, with control. AWFUL controls.

Then they fixed the controls for PC3, but broke the core purpose of the game... Didn't play it.

3 strikes and they've got what they had coming.

I had ZERO control issues with PC1 or PC2. Found them to be awesome, especially after some tweaking. Never played PC3, but that is because I heard it was a dumpster fire.

 

[Catphish]

Isn't it published by Bandai Namco?

Slightly Mad was acquired by Codemasters, which was acquired by EA.

 

[Ozriel]

Several franchises have a bad game, but recovered in the next installment.
But EA just gives up on their games very easily.

Most of those manage to sell decent amounts and still maintain some potential. No matter how bad 2042 was, they aren’t going to can Battlefield. And they still sold an impressive amount of units.

Project Cars 3 underperformed at the market. And it didn’t seem to be a big selling franchise before. When you add to that the imminent release of Forza Motorsport for PC and the likely debut of Gran Turismo on PC, it’s hard to imagine a promising future for the title.

 

[Fake]

Battlefield next.

 

[balls of snow]

As long as i get a new mass effect and dragon age before that happens.

 

[kapshin]

I was looking forward to their next Disney installment

 

[Damigos]

PG1 and PG2 were epic..

 

[xrnzaaas]

I won't say that I didn't see this coming. In fact I would be surprised if racing IP's would begin to flourish under EA's wings. They're all going to get moved to making NfS and F1 games eventually (and other non-racing projects).

It's really a shame, I hated the direction they took with pCARS3, but I really enjoyed 1&2 despite the bugs and launch issues. They were good light sims with incredible lists of real tracks, including the mostly forgotten ones.