Why did EA Kill Project CARS?

Why do you think the Project CARS series will no longer exist? Let us know in the comments below!

Such a shame. Loved Project Cars 1 & 2 after coming from Gran Turismo

Project Cars 2 - now EIGHT years old - is still my favorite VR car sim and runs on my old $2000 PC. I can't understand why it hasn't been replaced yet...

the time trials in PC3 was annoying { difficulty settings would not change the time restraints } ... just stick to racing and keep the pit lanes and lose too many screens between races { Forza Motorsport 7 }.

Project Cars 3 was a spiritual sequel to the team's previous "Need For Speed: Shift" series, which I loved. It's a pity it managed to look worse than its predecessors, though. I really enjoyed the simcade direction and felt it was a pity they chose the PC3 title.

PC3 felt like a EA decision. slightly mad studios were always more towards the Sim Style and PC2 was such a good SIM 1 not so much bit clunky. I was hoping they’d return to their routes with PC4 but seems it’s not to be

EA has no idea what players want. They just releasing licensed, soulless and superficial garbage

You forgot to mention nfs shift2 🗿
It was literally the basis for Project cars...

EA Killing a game off "gasp" who would have thought it.

and thats why i dont play any EA Games at all. they kill all the good stuff and just remake re skins of their previous titles

I was wondering what happened with this game. Wow! EA needs to chill. 😂

Sad EA killed this series. Hopefully they don't kill everything else codemasters does. Unfortunately it's their track record. Hopefully project cars can get a revive one day.

haha did they, what a fkn surprise.

Ive stopped buying EA games.

Woke EA can dry with NFS Unbound shooting rainbows out off exhaust

Because they suck.. Just like they killed the Titanfall 2 Brand.. They are disconnected from consumers.

Been saying it for years and here I am saying it again.
EA hasn't earned nor deserved a dime from anyone for at least the past decade.
They're objectively a net negative force in the gaming industry, Hell in the wider global marketplace.
It is immoral to support them. Piracy is objectively a better moral action if you feel you absolutely need to try the terrible latest NFS B2D slushfest.

EA still worst american corporation

I like very much the game, however PC series never was a good seller game, simple as that.

Reiza studio’s just announced Ian bells new company just merged with Rieza

You missed the link between Shift 1, 2 and PC3. SMS made Project Ferrari as a demo, EA paid SmS to make a NFS game with their engine. Shift 1 and 2 came out then EA lied to SMS and tried to bankrupt SMS by paying them to be in limbo and not make a game. So they broke away from EA and then started Project Cars 1. Project Cars 3 was a sequel to Shift 2 but the publisher forced them to name it Project Cars. Such a long drawn out drama for this team just trying to make the best racing games they can lol.

i still play project cars 2

Its sad that they went this way. Back in the day I had so much fun with the driving force GT steering wheel and the WTCC’s, Gt legends/ race games. They could be hard sims or just casual but great fun. I miss that

nooo! Project cars 2 is my favourite game.

Called it. They should have never sold codemasters to ea. Next they will kill grid

Rip😖🙏

Really looks like EA were just being EA. Buy a studio pretty much to close down competition. They should try upping there game instead of removing alternatives. As soon as a company says games are not just about the play, you know they are not interested in good content, unless they can charge extra for it.

Just let these smaller studios do their thing and if the games suck, they will soon dissappear anyway. I have to admit, the last Project cars game I have is 2.

EA obviously didn't like the reaction to PC3, and decided to cut their losses. This is generally what happens when you shit on a game too much, the publisher gets jumpy. Silent Hunter fans know this only too well.

EA hates gamers

Can you still buy this game?

I already know EA are going to ruin the future rally games from codemasters. Shame, I was hoping for offroad sims to grow instead of becoming arcadey games as a service

the original 2015 pCARS i think was the best semi-casual sim racer. i miss the aussies calling out the bad drivers and trash talking each other in the lobbies. the tyre changes in pCARS 2 were detrimental to the casual experience. too much time was wasted on slowly warming up the tyres. shame the series is dead now.

The thing that confused me is that Project Cars 3 is Shift 3 basically. People can complain it's arcadey all they want it's what it is I played Shift 2 which was a Sim before PC3 and it was as clear but for most people they hadn't and it was simply also 10 years of a gap since people even played Shift 2. But also makes sense because why go back to the Shift formula when it's Project Cars not NFS Shift it doesn't make any sense. Besides whatever Bandai Namco wanted from the game.

Otherwise it would be a competitor to Grid maybe??? But otherwise why not have 2 circuit racers EA? Otherwise. Dirt also going is strange because it fills a rally space well besides WRC but as Codemasters will have WRC now it's maybe not as needed? Even though they are different styles of focusing on rally. Either way EA kills things because why not. They wanted WRC and F1 that was obvious because of licenses just like sports ones. I'm surprised Grid Legends even released at all but I enjoyed it so I'm glad it was worth it (best modern racing game I've played compared to GT7 being a mess and praised when to me it's the worst modern racing game I've ever played). Not played iRacing or Assetto Corsa but still. I mean Gravel was a fine tv show focused rally game but I can't think besides what MX ATV or so that's really rally and that's quad bikes, Ride is your Forza with bikes type game and otherwise I can't think of many others.

I just hope this microtransiction model dies, or EA itsself

How on earth microsoft has all these lawsuits and anti trust organizations taking them to court over the purchasing of activision, and yet companies like EA get to gobble up half the damn gaming industry, destroy the teams and projects, and assimilate them into their gelatinous blob of a corporation without so much as a wimper is something I will never understand. Its companies like this that are the reason why the gaming industry feels like its stagnated over the years, and now we keep playing the same damn games over and over again. Because they have like 5 seperate development studios all working on the same IP every single year pumping out the next one, and the next one, and the next one like an assembly line. They are completely sucking out the passion and creativity the industry used to be known for.

Such a damn shame, as it seems SMS was willing to accept pc3 was a huge mistake and they sounded like they were going to go back to making a proper realistic sim. All I wanted was pc2 but more. More classes, more cars filling out the classes, more tracks, more polish and that sequel would have been phenominal. I loved the direction they took project cars 2, where you can simulate some of the greatest racing series of all time, and can really go wild with playing any car class on any track, you could even do a freaking gt3 race on a rallycross track if you wanted to! It was just fun. Now that whole team is probably going to be put onto the grid or need for speed assembly line so they can pump out their games at 12 percent better speed. This is really depressing.

Project Cars 3 was and is still awesome. I play this more than GT it's just pure fun

Honestly, I feel thkful cuz this game can still be modded (tough since it isn't mod-friendly, but the community is trying their best, and this is what keeps the game still on-going even today). Honestly, pCARS 2 isn't any kind of hardcore but a casual sim, yes it does have some weird physics but its VR performance make it the most immersive sim I've ever played. Sad to see a community-based game died so soon, AMS2 is definetly a spiritual successor of PC for me (or just me, I dunno)

Changing heads is never good for a Niche fan base. All this sounds like the WB DC studios mess.

Project cars 2 is an incredible game, guys make it simple an please reconsider making project cars4, but starting with the vision an the info from project cars 2 and I’m sure it will the best sim ever, please reconsider this diamond in the ruff!!!

Project Cars is still epic today if the studio would’ve really went back to the roots I’m sure it would’ve been even better sucks EA kills everything just like all these games are always online.....times are changing better keep the own disc you guys still have of these epic games before they become loss in the sauce

Some business decisions are hard to make, the idea of making the game accessible to everyone and controller support looking for larger audiences was a temptation. But hardcore users wanted the most realistic simulator ever on consoles, no body who played PC2 really needed controller support becase everyone has a wheel, so they forgot their real audience. Having 2 and 3, maybe just the looks and new cars does the trick for PC3 but time to time I was back on the most realistic PC2.

EA should be banned long time ago.

As a fan of the TOCA Race Driver series by Codemasters and Project CARS series by SimBin, I am deeply disappointed of what is happening in the world of racing simulator games.

So I paid for this game, 1 & 2why is it gone from my PS console UI..my library says I purchased PC2 but won’t let me start?

Ian Bell and the crew ruined PC they didn’t finish the original PC, ignored and abused their customers..PC2, same thing..even though the customers had faith..nope did the same thing…and then they wondered why no one would buy PC3 These crooks made a lot of money off of us..and are now running ..they think anyone would ever trust them again 🤔

So, it sounds like they took over Project Cars just so they could dump it in the trash so they could boost sales of F1 racing. They could've had the best of two worlds by having select F1 cars in Project Cars 4 but not have a full line up of cars and tracks. They could have easily taken Project Cars 2 source code, add some cars, add some visuals, and made some upgrades then call it Project Cars 4 Return to Sim Racing. Then again this is EA we are talking about, and I suspect they don't know much about what the consumers want; see NHL for PC for example.

They are pushing the Frostbite engine for everything too. Another trend that must be noticed and highlighted.

EA kills everything

PC2 is the game that opened me out of my shell of only playing arcade racers

PC 1 and 2 are horrible. PC 3 is actually fun with assists off. Cope and seeth. EA didn't kill anything only the fuckijg licensing departments on both ends for tracks and cars brands.

Pathetic video.