Project Cars series ended by EA

[Chris]

EA has decided to put an end to the series, so there won't be a PC4. Real shame. It seems that they prefer to focus on their existing racing games...

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ea-has-ended-the-project-cars-series/

[turtleCZ]

It was dead. It's time to move on with assets and engine and build new games.

[♥samantha♥]

Originally posted by turtleCZ:

It was dead. It's time to move on with assets and engine and build new games.

Yup Ian Bell is planning on making a new GTR racing sim that uses the Unreal Engine for the graphics, the best part is he also states it is going to be moddable, so who needs Rennsports and or Assetto Corsa 2, Modders will now have a modern graphics sim that will compete with modern sims like AMS 2 and ACC.

[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

Damit they get to do one game, mess it up, then kill the franchise... slow clap award for EA.

Il be right on board for the next project this team do, i used to play GTR2 years ago and got this because a lot of the team members from that apparently came over to PC1. Hopefully they do the same and again and the new GTR will be what PC3 should have been :)

PS makes me sad that Pcars got delisted.... while GTR2 from like a decade earlier is still up for sale... all be it with no Porsche cars but at least its still there :(

[laaketeknikko]

Originally posted by Karmaterrorᵁᴷ:

Damit they get to do one game, mess it up, then kill the franchise... slow clap award for EA.

Il be right on board for the next project this team do, i used to play GTR2 years ago and got this because a lot of the team members from that apparently came over to PC1. Hopefully they do the same and again and the new GTR will be what PC3 should have been :)

PS makes me sad that Pcars got delisted.... while GTR2 from like a decade earlier is still up for sale... all be it with no Porsche cars but at least its still there :(

Great narrative, but there are some holes in the plot there.

PC3 started development three years before EA got the IP, and published a year before as well. The one who's responsible for PC3 turning out the way it did is probably Ian Bell himself. He also wanted to make their own console. I mean, the team with his lead already could've done "the PC3 it should've been", but they didn't.

And if they do something, is it just yet another GT3 game. PC2 is great because I can drive Group C, LMPs from early 2000 and the last of the LMP1 hybrid era.

[turtleCZ]

Originally posted by laaketeknikko:

Originally posted by Karmaterrorᵁᴷ:

Damit they get to do one game, mess it up, then kill the franchise... slow clap award for EA.

Il be right on board for the next project this team do, i used to play GTR2 years ago and got this because a lot of the team members from that apparently came over to PC1. Hopefully they do the same and again and the new GTR will be what PC3 should have been :)

PS makes me sad that Pcars got delisted.... while GTR2 from like a decade earlier is still up for sale... all be it with no Porsche cars but at least its still there :(

Great narrative, but there are some holes in the plot there.

PC3 started development three years before EA got the IP, and published a year before as well. The one who's responsible for PC3 turning out the way it did is probably Ian Bell himself. He also wanted to make their own console. I mean, the team with his lead already could've done "the PC3 it should've been", but they didn't.

And if they do something, is it just yet another GT3 game. PC2 is great because I can drive Group C, LMPs from early 2000 and the last of the LMP1 hybrid era.

I think he meant SMS? GTR was amazing. PC1 as well. So they can sometimes create great stuff. But not most of the time. :D

[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

I thoght PC3 was done under Codemasters, and EA then bought Codemasters... but i may be wrong. It defo looked like a codemsters racing game when it dropped.

Alls i know is how much my heart sank when i fired up a PC3 review, and about 3 mins in the reviewer says "Oh and there are no pitsops in this game"... that was me done, RIP Pcars lol

[LeafyRiot05]

Man rip PC and DiRT series....it's slowly happening and I knew it was coming

[Mahjik]

Originally posted by Karmaterrorᵁᴷ:

I thoght PC3 was done under Codemasters, and EA then bought Codemasters... but i may be wrong. It defo looked like a codemsters racing game when it dropped.

Bandai Namco owns all of the PC series:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/958400/Project_CARS_3/

You can see their name listed as the publisher (i.e. the ones with the money). PC3 was completed before the Codemasters deal but SMS was allowed to use the Codemasters logo on the release saying something like "Developed by SMS a Codemasters company" or something to that effect.

[LeafyRiot05]

Oh look guys it's that game where they say it's a simulation and totally not a arcade racer that removes all sim elements with a dead playerbase

[Bucherebis]

That's EA modus operandi. They absorbed Codemaster not to increase their "portfolio" but to kill competition to their garbage NFS games. They killed Dirt too and Grid will be next.

[LeafyRiot05]

Ima be real GRID has been dead since 2 because it started to declined hard and no one cared for AutoSport,2019 and Legends

[Protonv5]

EA is not a game developer. They are a company that only looks to make profit. IF it means buying a competing company so they can shut down their game, they will.

[Nats]

Yes its sad to see the end of such great car games as PCars1 and PCars2. At least we still have Automobilista 2 though ... maybe the F1 games will be next to go ....

[♥samantha♥]

Originally posted by Nats:

maybe the F1 games will be next to go ....

All F1 games before F1 21 and F1 22 has already been removed from the Steam store.

[Nats]

Originally posted by ♥samantha♥:

Originally posted by Nats:

maybe the F1 games will be next to go ....

All F1 games before F1 21 and F1 22 has already been removed from the Steam store.

That means nothing. Just means EA want you to oly buy the latest one. They are greedy. Same for Football Manager. No reason people couldnt enjoy older copies of that. Although it could do with licencing. Maybe they only have a license for a year to use the licences and teams.