Why I can't buy 'NFS Pro Street' in Steam?

[MORGAN]

Who knows?

[EDGE HO^_^]

There may be no corresponding game because you are not registered in the Steam store.

[MORGAN]

Originally posted by EDGEHOME007:

There may be no corresponding game because you are not registered in the Steam store.

And how do I write here if I'm not registered in Steam? =)

[svino]

Because of the music rights, I think. It was sold on origin in the past but you can't buy it even there now.

[Ryon ♡]

I'm very sure any EA Blackbox developed game apart from Undercover being very outdated cannot be sold on Steam, likely due to the licensing, and the shutdown of said studio. This may also explain why The Run isn't on Steam either

[RememberNoRussian]

Probably because of the licensing things. :/ Back in 2015 Summer I bought Pro Street in Origin client for like 9.99EUR, but I refunded it because it had bugs what newer OP systems caused since Win 7. I have it on an older XBOX account, but sold my 360 ~2 years ago. I searched the web for a PS key, but couldn't find any. I bet you can still buy it for the old consoles PS3/X360. I bought NFSPS for X360 in 2018 September, with some cars, like the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 and Köenigsegg CCX, Seat Leon Cupra, couple other cars. I'm 99% sure it's still available on the old XBOX Marketplace, but you can check it if you'd like. Only reason I don't play this game is because I don't have an X360 currently, but I will definitely buy an old used one. This game is a classic. I have lots of good memories with this game. :)

[RememberNoRussian]

Anyways, if my theory is right, you can fix the PC-like issues with the correct affinity settings (Ctrl+Alt+Del). NFS Undercover also has some problems, unless you select CPU core 0 only setting in the affinity settings, basically it solves every problem. Older games tend to have problem(s) without the affinity settings. I will test it one day with unofficial copy of the game.

[Memory]

The game was actually sold on Origin digitally, no longer available because licensing ran out years ago.

[Freak111112]

I ask you: why are NFS Most Wanted 2005, NFS Carbon, NFS Underground 1 and 2 not available for purchase? Possibly for copyright or because EA simply doesn't want to.

[RememberNoRussian]

I own NFS UG 1-2, MW, Carbon on PS2, and Pro Street on PS3 since a week. The PS3 version looks really good for a 2007 console game, but sometimes there are huge fps drops when the game suddenly stops for a moment, but other than that it was a great experience to relive Pro Street again. From scratch, zero to 100% it only took me 4 days. One of the best NFS games of all time in my eyes. Sometimes I wish to go back and play some Pro Street again, but don't really want to start a new career, and the Online is dead. The PS2 episodes run on low framerate and pixel graphics, but I like those episodes, so for me it was worth it.

These NFS games aren't available for purchase since a long time because of the licensing issues, not because EA doesn't want to sell them. They are a big company, they really care about money. It's all about the licenses. Like Codemasters for example took down most of the GRID episodes and some of the DiRT episodes from the stores because of the licenses, EA did the same. You can always buy used copies from the Internet or some other places. I live in a small country and I could buy all the NFS episodes I wanted and other PS2-PS3 titles from console game stores. You can buy anything for console(s) if you wish. Originally, I wanted Pro Street for the PC, but it wasn't an option at all, in 2020. The console versions are good: Didn't have any problem(s) with the X360 version back in 2018, no stuttering, no lag etc, and on the PS3 it looks good, even if it is compared to the PC port. Yeah, there are frame drops here and there, but overall it's not nearly unplayable.