EA Sports WRC: General Discussion
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Your thread has been disappeared by resetera.Hope it’s okay to post a thread from resetera, as I haven’t seen the news reported anywhere else yet, but it seems EA are ending the series
Codemasters won't be doing more rally games, future WRC games cancelled News
It comes from their discord, not sure if there are articles anywherewww.resetera.com
More cost-cutting by EA, they also axed a load of developers at Respawn and cancelled an unannounced game.
I hope the game will continue to be available to play and not similarly plug-pulled Ubi-style. DiRT Rally 2.0 still works for me but its tough and unforgiving nature makes it an uncomfortable play compared to the EA title.
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Fortunately the game isn't always online, unlike The Crew, so it will still be playable. Besides, I obviously don't know how these things work but I don't believe it will be delisted and have its servers shut down anytime soon.
Anyway, huge shame. WRC 24 has its share of issues, mostly with performance and graphics, but the car handling feels great, at least from a more casual sim racer point of view. I always play at least 2 or 3 quick stages before leaving home for work.
Hoping at least someone else gets the license.
Anyway, huge shame. WRC 24 has its share of issues, mostly with performance and graphics, but the car handling feels great, at least from a more casual sim racer point of view. I always play at least 2 or 3 quick stages before leaving home for work.
Hoping at least someone else gets the license.
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Been a fan of Codemasters rally games dating back to the first Colin McRae Rally on PS1, so much so that it always was and still is my favourite racing game on the original PS1.
I’m gutted and genuinely feel for everyone affected by this working at Codemasters. The DiRT/WRC series was their staple for so many years and sickened that EA have pulled the rug and shut up shop.
Surely them buying Codemasters was partly due to them having the official licences for F1 and WRC - something that allowed them to expand their “EA Sports” profile.
It does sound as though the WRC licence has been ended early and they’re looking to pass on the licence to someone else, but Codemasters and their pedigree with rally racing was always my top pick.
Makes me fear for what’s left of Codemasters moving forward as EA have already killed off the arcade DiRT spinoff, Project Cars and more than likely Grid as well. Clearly F1 is their main focus currently, but wouldn’t be surprised if they give them the chop as well if that series continues to undersell.
Hope everyone affected manages to find other roles, this news must have come as a huge shock.
I hope whatever the newer studios such as Lighthouse and Maverick Games are cooking up behind the scenes manage to fill the void left by EAs cruel dismantling of a classic British racing game studio.
I’m gutted and genuinely feel for everyone affected by this working at Codemasters. The DiRT/WRC series was their staple for so many years and sickened that EA have pulled the rug and shut up shop.
Surely them buying Codemasters was partly due to them having the official licences for F1 and WRC - something that allowed them to expand their “EA Sports” profile.
It does sound as though the WRC licence has been ended early and they’re looking to pass on the licence to someone else, but Codemasters and their pedigree with rally racing was always my top pick.
Makes me fear for what’s left of Codemasters moving forward as EA have already killed off the arcade DiRT spinoff, Project Cars and more than likely Grid as well. Clearly F1 is their main focus currently, but wouldn’t be surprised if they give them the chop as well if that series continues to undersell.
Hope everyone affected manages to find other roles, this news must have come as a huge shock.
I hope whatever the newer studios such as Lighthouse and Maverick Games are cooking up behind the scenes manage to fill the void left by EAs cruel dismantling of a classic British racing game studio.
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From what I read online the f1 contract with Codemasters is only until 2025, if they don't extend that I can't think of any other IP which would they could possibly be working on that would keep them operating.
Unless EA uses their developers for the next Battlefield game, I think they did that with the Need for Speed team for 2042.
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I'm gutted about this too, I was really hoping we'd get a 2025 season update this year.
On a positive note, I'm absolutely loving the BRC season that @Speedster502 is running in Clubs. You should all join us, and I hope they run another one when this finishes in a couple of weeks 😍
Link to the club:
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On a positive note, I'm absolutely loving the BRC season that @Speedster502 is running in Clubs. You should all join us, and I hope they run another one when this finishes in a couple of weeks 😍
Link to the club:
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As @SharkyOB said, whilst this news is really sad the game in it's current state is still great fun to play.
There's some some super clubs out there that are really fun to compete in and give a proper sense of what this game is all about. The community is what's kept me playing this game for so long, and I suspect I'll be playing this for many more years to come.
As for plans for another season of the BRC club...I'll get my thinking hat on 🤓
There's some some super clubs out there that are really fun to compete in and give a proper sense of what this game is all about. The community is what's kept me playing this game for so long, and I suspect I'll be playing this for many more years to come.
As for plans for another season of the BRC club...I'll get my thinking hat on 🤓
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DiRT Rally 2.0 will always be there for that, at least. I massively admire the ambition of EA Sports WRC and will play it for a long time to come, I love the length and accuracy of the stages, the physics and the car list. But DR2.0 still scratches the itch too. EA very, very nearly surpassed it, but it just doesn't run as well and that's never going to be fixed now. There's nothing like running Sweet Lamb in torrential rain in an Impreza. All the uncertainty and now disappointment over EA WRC just makes me appreciate what we already have. It's a shame EA is going to be left in an imperfect state but life goes on.
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I don't know, some of the team have worked on rally their entire career I should think given Codemasters history in the sport. I'd love to think they'd follow the license and, budget permitting, join a dev/publisher who actually wants to make it a success.
I wonder if the WRC felt like EA were just treating them like a second rate franchise with small updates and no real drive to make a new game Vs the F1 franchise which gets everything. At a time where the real WRC is trying to push into a period of transition and boost popularity with new events, new regulations etc, they probably want to be treated as a top franchise and EA clearly weren't willing to do that.
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Could well be. EA Sports WRC was as massive as it was in (probably big) part because it was already there, in development as DiRT Rally 3. The licenced title kinda got built on top of that and the assets merged didn't they. Doing that all over again was always going to be a colossal undertaking.
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I'm sad that there won't be any more dlc, updates, fixes for EA WRC. I'm sad that there's no imminent new game in the pipeline, at least from Codies. Maybe there's something, judging from the cryptic post from WRC.
What I don't get is the kneejerk reactions from a lot of people, it's as if the game suddenly stopped working.
Yes I understand that especially the PC users, there's issues with anti cheat and game performance but that doesn't affect consoles.
And yes, the game could have been even better and more polished than it is but tbh it's still an amazing game to play and far better than anything that KT put out.
To say the game is now dead is a false and misleading statement. The 'dead' part refers to game support insofar as updates, fixes and further dlc is concerned. It's not 'dead' in the context of actual gameplay and playability, nothing has changed in that respect since before yesterday's announcement.
Game support ended for Dirt 2.0 years ago but people still play it and it's still being logged on Racenet, I see no reason that EA WRC should be any different
I think it's more sad that this is going to impact the people that work at Codies as they seem to have been shunted aside by the bean counters at EA.
Hopefully another developer will take up the baton for a new rally game in the future but for the present, just keep playing and enjoying EA WRC as you have been up to now, it's still here, still available and still brilliant
I would also say that ACC is still being played with multiple healthy leagues available despite game support being finished quite some time ago so I can't see EA WRC being unplayable any time soon
What I don't get is the kneejerk reactions from a lot of people, it's as if the game suddenly stopped working.
Yes I understand that especially the PC users, there's issues with anti cheat and game performance but that doesn't affect consoles.
And yes, the game could have been even better and more polished than it is but tbh it's still an amazing game to play and far better than anything that KT put out.
To say the game is now dead is a false and misleading statement. The 'dead' part refers to game support insofar as updates, fixes and further dlc is concerned. It's not 'dead' in the context of actual gameplay and playability, nothing has changed in that respect since before yesterday's announcement.
Game support ended for Dirt 2.0 years ago but people still play it and it's still being logged on Racenet, I see no reason that EA WRC should be any different
I think it's more sad that this is going to impact the people that work at Codies as they seem to have been shunted aside by the bean counters at EA.
Hopefully another developer will take up the baton for a new rally game in the future but for the present, just keep playing and enjoying EA WRC as you have been up to now, it's still here, still available and still brilliant
I would also say that ACC is still being played with multiple healthy leagues available despite game support being finished quite some time ago so I can't see EA WRC being unplayable any time soon
Very sad news that this has happened. I hope PJ and the whole team get moved to another part of EA. I have really enjoyed WRC 23/24 in VR and have bought all the Rally titles that Codemasters released from day 1. I was really looking forward to see what the next chapters were going to bring while they had the license. I was hoping that Codemasters got the license one day so was really excited when they got it. At least we have WRC and it’s a great game so very happy to have it despite what has happened.
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I think Tool's comment makes more sense when you look on social media and see all this RIP EA WRC stuff and it's ridiculously OTT because no, the game's still there exactly the same as it was yesterday, everything still works, it's not dead, it's just stopped.....being born.
I think we on here all realise that, but we're not going to be the ones melting down on YouTube or Reddit.
Personally, the licence never meant that much to me. I just wanted DiRT Rally 3 and the shame of all this is that I only partially feel like i got it.
I think we on here all realise that, but we're not going to be the ones melting down on YouTube or Reddit.
Personally, the licence never meant that much to me. I just wanted DiRT Rally 3 and the shame of all this is that I only partially feel like i got it.
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I think aside from Championship mode, what we have is pretty much what DR3 would have been. Even down to the locations, I think career mode is the way it is because it was DR3 with WRC chucked into it, things like not being able to race for a factory team and there being so many events that clashed and whatnot.
I could be wrong but I think some of the quirks come from it being DR3 with WRC added in.
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Makes sense really, the locations for DR3 were well underway, Mediterraneo, Pacifico, Scandia, Iberia, Oceania and Mexico, all being built in Unreal before WRC.
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Well, there are a lot of references in the game, I know it's a small thing but there's several cars that have DR3 on their number plates, one of the Subaru's especially, in 2.0 is showed DR2 and shows DR3 in EA WRC. Might have just been a cheeky nod to what if was going to be as the game was in development before the EA buyout
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