I'm having unusually long wait time right now signing into EA. Have they removed this game from thier servers so now we cant play online???

ya they shut the server down. NASCAR 08 is no longer available to play online.

From the EA site.....

I've said it once, and i'll say it again: I will never buy another EA game, ever again.  NASCAR 08 will continue to be my last EA game.

 TSR6 wrote:

I've said it once, and i'll say it again: I will never buy another EA game, ever again.  NASCAR 08 will continue to be my last EA game.

I owned 09 for the first 3 weeks it was out and brought it back. That was technically my last EA game. Just traded in 08 for $2.50 at blockbuster. EA can have thier *** servers all to themselves. Soon they will work great cause no1 will be playing on them. Keep up the **** poor customer service and bug/glitch ridden games and your profit margin will reflect how you have been treating your customer base.

I hope iRacing comes to the Xbox 360.

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Wow.. Shut down after ONE year!? Suck ***, EA. That's realllllllly harsh.

That's really terrible, and what a way to shaft the PS2 NHL fans, but they are probably playing 2K anyway.

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I gave all my fat clothes to my fat friends.

i found this out the other day,me and some friends were gonna race alittle and found the servers to be shut down,that sucks.i guess they think it will make you buy the newer versions if you wanna play online.

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4.wii

 Salem in Chains wrote:

ya they shut the server down. NASCAR 08 is no longer available to play online.

What i don't understand is: I pay microsoft/xboxlive to play ONLINE games!
Why would they do this???  I don't care if the game is old. I'm paying to play!

This isn't right!

I was gonna pick up nascar 09, why bother now, they will just shut the servers
down.

-rick

 Zeptari wrote:

 Salem in Chains wrote:

ya they shut the server down. NASCAR 08 is no longer available to play online.

What i don't understand is: I pay microsoft/xboxlive to play ONLINE games!
Why would they do this???  I don't care if the game is old. I'm paying to play!

This isn't right!

I was gonna pick up nascar 09, why bother now, they will just shut the servers
down.

-rick

Thats why you have to "sign in" when playing EA games. They run the online servers that we play on therefore they can shut them down and that forces us to buy the current version. Guess what? 08 sold close to 800k copies and 09 sold almost 100k. Why the drop off? Cause 08 was so bug filled that people waited to see what was said on forums about 09 before they bought it. Look back at the first page of the forum and I bet you find thousands of complaints about profile corruptions, patch requests and bug problems. Hence the reason no1 bought this years game so they shut down 08 in hopes of boosting sales for 09. yet again, EA FAILS.

Yeah, I can't say that I took kindly to this info when I first read it. I mean, like MANY has stated on here, how can they be allowed to shutdown a server after just one year? I mean really? Are they trying to tell us that their games are so bad that they only have a play-lifetime of 1 year, eh? I appreciate the fact that I do not know of all the intricate management details which go on behind the scenes, but it sure beats me how MS can allow this. I love XBL so much, but then you get jokers like EA that comes along and spoils the fun *sigh* EA please wake up! You can't treat your consumers like this and expect them to keep on supporting you.

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