Need For Speed Rivals online servers shutting down on October 7, 2025

Need For Speed Rivals online servers are permanently shutting down on October 7, 2025 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC on October 7, 2025. 

This is not widely known as there was no official EA post / news article about Need For Speed Rivals online servers shutting down. EA silently added NFS Rivals to the list of Online Services Shutdown on their EA Service Updates website. 

Link: https://www.ea.com/legal/service-updates/i-q

Need For Speed Rivals online servers lasted for almost 12 years from November 2013 to October 7, 2025, which is actually a pretty long online servers' lifespan. 

NFS Rivals can be played offline after its online servers get permanently shut down. NFS Rivals is not an online-only game. 

While the PC version of NFS Rivals has no achievements, the console versions of NFS Rivals has achievements and two of them can only be obtained online (which are Friendly Race - Win a race against a friend and Buddy Bust - Bust a friend). It's highly recommended to obtain the Friendly Race and Buddy Bust achievements before the online servers permanently shut down. 

R.I.P. Need For Speed Rivals online servers 🫡