They are still up and running. Even the leaderboards are still working. My psn nick is talhaONE. You can add me and we can play together.
Hi there, I've found a list of those moderators in question but these are their Xbox Live accounts. If we can reach them out through that, they should lead us to the ones with PS3s.
@Ozer928Hi there. My PSN is palikary26e. I have been playing Carbon for 13 years and have been trying to attain that EA moderator reward card for years now. Have you tried reaching out to any of those EA moderators? Alot of friends of mine, including myself still play online on Carbon PS3 quite frequently and are willing to challenge any PS3 EA moderator out there.
Thank you!
Kind regards,
George
@George26e wrote:
@Ozer928also, do you play carbon on PS3? If so, what is your PSN, so we can race some day?
My PSN: palikary26e
Hi there. It's been a couple of weeks I got my hands on it. Just wanted to see what it is like, so that's why I got it. My PSN is the same with my account name here. Hope to do it once we're both online.
I had no idea that a simple question as to whether the game's servers were still running back in 2019 would become an attempt to revive the NFSC online scene, and I'm still finding like-minded players who are still searching for those last few reward cards...
It's been a blast, yet really frustrating. There have been brilliant moments of gameplay, yet horrible connection issues and fatal lag issues. Overall though, it's been a pleasure. Although I may not have been the most active, I can only hope that the time I've managed to be online will suffice; I will endeavour to get on to see the game's final moments too, before the servers are finally shut down at the end of the month.
That's all from me!
Bro, do you still play NFS Carbon on PS3? and do you know someone who managed to get all the rewards cards online on the PS3?
My PSN: Xxzenilson_BRxX
Unfortunately, I don't play Carbon on PS3 as much as I used to - though I did enjoy Most Wanted '05 on the PS2 last week.
To answer your question, I believe the official EA servers for several Need for Speed games developed by Black Box and Criterion were shutdown and have been since August 2021. I do not know if there are any fan servers or anything like that, but Carbon online effectively no longer exists for the vanilla PS3 game.
As for reward cards, some of them are exceptionally difficult - particularly the one which requires you to race (and beat) an EA moderator. If there was anyone who could have done a clean sweep, it would be the amazing @George26e - he is an expert on NFSC and a superb racer with great knowledge of in-game tuning too. It's a shame that it's gone and that NFS is heading in the direction it is currently; I would have really enjoyed racing him (and others) seeing as my racecraft as far, far better than what it was back then!
All the best. Sorry to disappoint at all.
