Relaunching servers in Need for speed Carbon
wouldn't be so cool that you (ea) would revive servers for need for speed carbon at the launch of the heat or someday? that would be cool and everyone would be happy.
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@TheRealJony yeah but you cant register account in carbon thats what i mean
> cant register account in carbon
I assume you mean you can't create a new account in Carbon? Assuming this is for the PC version, I also assume you bought a new EA DVD version of Carbon or Carbon Collector's Edition that includes a cd-key for install (as opposed to the Cosmi licensed distribution that doesn't include a cd-key) ? There's some type of workaround, but unless you have friends that are also playing Carbon, there's almost no chance of doing a mutli-player online event.
I go online with an old account every now and then, and I see activity on the weekly leaderboards, but almost all of it is players doing career mode events while logged in, and occasionally a few players doing ranked single player events. I did some of those ranked single player events to get onto the weekly leaderboards (often I'm the only one), which resulted in getting friend requests, but I never see those friends online, but that's mostly likely due to differences in time zone (I'm in west coast USA, not a popular time zone for racing games).
If you are interested, I'll see if I can find information about the work around, which may longer be working due to some "invalid password" issue that started around October, 2018.
@rcgldr wrote:
but that's mostly likely due to differences in time zone (I'm in west coast USA, not a popular time zone for racing games).
I'm in the east coast Canada. My time zone is EST / EDT and I also have problems finding opponents for Multiplayer in racing games too, particularly both The Crew 1 and 2.
Both The Crew 1 and 2 are dead games when I have to play the game(s) at a certain time to find opponents for PvP lobbies. In this case, I would have to play both games in the morning or afternoon to find opponents. It will be incredibly difficult to find opponents in the evening time in my time zone (which is when east coast people are done working for the day).
I feel sorry for you. You have the worst time zone to find opponents for Multiplayer races.
But the east coast isn't better either unfortunately.
It seems the Europeans and the Russians have the best time zone from my experience in both The Crew 1 and 2. I meet a lot of them in both The Crew games, but I don't meet a lot of Canadians and Americans though.
They can easily find opponents for PvP lobbies when it is evening in their time zone.
The only racing game I played that can easily find Multiplayer lobbies at any time of day was Need For Speed World.
Back in the day, I could easily find opponents in the morning, afternoon, and evening in my time zone. I didn't have to play it at a certain time to find opponents.
Pointless post, but felt like talking about different time zones. XD
When NFS High Stakes through NFS Shift 1 were new, I was able to find other players in USA time zones. The peak seemed to occur with Most Wanted and Carbon, then a decline in online play, but sales of the later games also declined. The last NFS I bought was Shift 2 Unleashed, so I don't know what the newer games are like online.
@rcgldr wrote:
When NFS High Stakes through NFS Shift 1 were new, I was able to find other players in USA time zones.
That's understandable.
The games at the time of release have huge playerbases, so it essentially was the best time to play Multiplayer races and get any of the online achievements done in those games (if there were any).
rcgldr wrote:
The peak seemed to occur with Most Wanted and Carbon, then a decline in online play, but sales of the later games also declined.
I also understand how the peak with online play was with Most Wanted 2005 and Carbon. (Even though I had missed out when I didn't have internet connection at the time)
The online play in video games was still new and fresh, so it was really exciting to race real opponents instead of the AIs.
Then online play was basically included in every single NFS game and it got stale for many.
rcgldr wrote:
The last NFS I bought was Shift 2 Unleashed, so I don't know what the newer games are like online.
The last NFS game I bought was NFS The Run.
Just like the other NFS games, it was very easy to find opponents back when the game was just released.
If I were to find opponents for Multiplayer racing in NFS The Run now, then it would be impossible to find just one opponent.
The latest NFS game, NFS Payback, is also dead. It's very hard to find opponents after majority of the playerbase had left the game after its Speed Cards backlash.
Only NFS World was the exception back in the day, considering it was a free-to-play MMO racing game.
